This paper analyzes an emergent stream of research shedding light on the institutional
factors shaping entrepreneurial activity and its effect on economic growth. This integrative …

Productivity is the main factor holding back long-term economic growth in Italy. Since the
second half of the 1990s, productivity growth has been feeble both by historical standards …

Over the past 30 years, the academic literature has legitimised the significant impact of
environmental conditions on entrepreneurial activity. In the past 5 years, in particular, the …

The 2020 pandemic shocked a world already shaken by mistrust and social polarization.
Lives and jobs were lost despite the best efforts of governments to contain COVID-19 and …

This papers develops a taxonomy of financially distressed and zombie firms using a rich
dataset that combines detailed firm-level and bank-firm level information in Spain. A …

Commercial and social entrepreneurs are likely to help communities combat public health
crises. Research on responses to pandemics has underappreciated the critical role of …

We empirically investigate the effect of electronic case-processing on court efficacy. We
draw on monthly court-level panel data on adjudication and enforcement in Brazilian labor …

This article investigates the dividend informational content hypothesis, showing how
managers react to a poor legal environment through positive and credible messages to …

In this study, we attempt to find the factors that influence small business owners' optimism as
well as their company's success. For this purpose, we use a survey done by Kauffman …

Mainly motivated by Veblen's ideas about the role of institutions in the social configuration
process and its consequences toward a more progressive society, this book is an attempt to …