Institutional Environment and Innovativeness of Businesses

The Impact of Business Environment on the Survival of Small Scale Businesses in Nigeria

the best deal. Nowhere is more real than today business environment which affect the success or otherwise of any business venture. Several authors have attributed failure of businesses particularly small and medium scale enterprises to various factors ranging from training of the entrepreneur to exposure and experience while some analysts opined that business environment could impact on small a...

Ranking of Rural Business Environment in Mazandaran Province from the Perspective of Owners of Agricultural Businesses

     Improving business environment is one of the factors affecting on the economic development of rural areas. In this study, 75 questionnaires from the owners of agricultural businesses was used to evaluated and ranked business environment. Factor analysis showed that 5 factors effect on the rural economic activists, which explain 72% of the changes. Among the extracted factors, the first fac...

Social License and Environment Protection: Why Businesses Go Beyond Compliance

Institutional Environment and Value of Companies

Submitted: Jun 24, 2013; Accepted: Jul 19, 2013; Published: Jul 25, 2013 Abstract: The article presents an empirical study of institutional maturity as a determinant of companies’ value and well-being of countries as a whole. Regression models of value multiples with inclusion of institutional factors are developed. Value of companies is studied in terms of the following multipliers: Price-Earn...

Institutional Environment and Survival of Overseas Subsidiaries

We examine the effect of the institutional environment (IE) on the mortality of overseas subsidiaries in a country and test whether partnership strategies help to mitigate the hazards that come from regulatory, normative and cognitive constraints that institutions place on these subsidiaries. We use measures of political openness and social openness to characterize the regulative and normative ...