Entrepreneurship prompts institutional change in developing economies

Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...

05 Impact of Productivity and Institutional Quality on Environmental Quality (Evidences from Developing Economies)

Examination of the environmental pollution and the factors influencing it by considering the specific characteristics of each country for acheivment to growth and sustainable development and reduse of emission is very important. this study, investigate the effect of productivity and institutional quality on the quality of the environment by using the panel data analysis for 16 developing countr...

Institutional Flexibility and Entrepreneurship

This paper addresses a theoretical puzzle regarding how institutions enhance individual entrepreneurial behavior. We leverage a unique research setting to extend institutional theory into the realm of entrepreneurship by introducing and testing the concept of institutional flexibility. More flexible institutions foster entrepreneurship in allowing, rather than restricting individual choices. Th...

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

Institutional Entrepreneurship for Knowledge Regions

This paper investigates conceptually the institutional change process and innovation underpinning the knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional entrepreneurship. The main aim is to raise institutional entrepreneurship among the debated concepts in regional development studies. The paper sets out to discuss the following question: What kind of conceptual framew...