This study discusses the creation, survival and growth strategies of locally-based start-ups in emerging economies. The study consists of a revelatory case study analysis of an IT start-up in one of the largest developing countries of central and Eastern Europe, Romania. The analysis shows how IT entrepreneurs in developing countries can adapt to the institutional, resource and industry constra...

This article offers a novel critique of the impact of institutions on the propensity to patent across countries. Patenting policy is regularly known to carry deep-rooted institutional implications. Yet in the case of developing countries, the United Nations constructed only loose policy concerning the role of the government, the business sector or Multi-National Enterprises in promoting patenti...

Due to the importance of the government size impact on economic growth, the current study investigates the impact of government size on economic growth in economies of the developed and developing countries by using a panel data approach over the period 1990-2010. The results indicate that government size has positive effect on economic growth and negative effect on per capita production growth...

The focus of this paper is on the conceptual and empirical problems that arise in the analysis of the administrative and political context of economic and social regulation in developing countries. After a discussion of the significance of dominant ideas in current debates on economic and social development policy, the paper examines the main characteristics of regulatory governance in develope...

We examine the determinants of financial development in Asia and the Pacific from 1995 to 2011. To do so, we apply the dynamic generalized method of moments to a panel data set of 26 economies in the region. We find that better governance and institutional quality foster financial development in developing economies while economic growth and trade openness are key determinants of financial dept...

this manuscript illustrates how the human resource management concept of employee empowerment likely has benefits in both developed and developing economies. studies in the hospitality sector and the manufacturing sector in canada, india, and turkey show that, in general, empowering supervisory behaviors, such as transformational leadership, increase feelings of psychological empowerment of emp...

abstract financial crises and currency instabilities within developing and emerging economies during the last decade had a tremendous impact on the economic performance and increased vulnerability of economies against domestic and foreign shocks. the timing of capital liberalization is one of the significant debates among other issues related to currency instability, and it would be more conven...

There are substantial differences between the economies of a Developed Country (DC) and a developing country, more aptly referred to as a Growing Less Developed Country (GDLC). An interesting question in the realm of macroeconomics iswhy the difference occurs between these two types of economies. Which are the features that set a typical DC apart from a typical GLDC? Here, our contention is tha...