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The Medici effect: multidisciplinary insights for entrepreneurship research

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The Medici effect highlights the importance of combining ideas and concepts from diverse disciplines to foster innovation. This concept, rooted in the historical contributions of the Medici family during the Renaissance, underscores the potential for interdisci...
3 months ago

Social Science

A literature review on transnational diaspora entrepreneurship: utilizing a combined approach of traditional and topic modeling

PurposeThousands of people emigrate from their homeland and start new businesses in other countries. Researchers are increasingly interested in this phenomenon, commonly known as transnational diaspora entrepreneurship. Our paper aims to review this topic by identifying the gaps in existing research and emphasizing the n...
3 months ago

Physics Maths Engineering

Welfare costs of suboptimal retiree decisions

We make a novel investigation of welfare costs associated with various suboptimal decisions made by retirees, both analytically and numerically. We utilize a unique framework that incorporates recursive utility with housing, and also encompasses expected utility and recursive utility without housing as special cases. Our findings indicate that under-investment in stocks incurs lower welfar...
3 months ago

Social Science

Unfolding entrepreneurial resourcefulness: a systematic literature review

Purpose Literature on entrepreneurial resourcefulness (ER) has grown constantly in the last two decades. ER is a construct that describes the specific behavior of entrepreneurs, focusing on the generation and deployment of resources to pursue an opportunity. Since the ER literature has expanded and diversified, the purpose of this study is to integrate its findings with existing knowledge about ...
5 months ago

Social Science

Gender differences and new venture performance

Purpose This study compares the performance of female majority-owned new ventures (FNV) vs. male majority-owned new ventures (MNV). It analyzes the differences in levels of variables such as education, the same industry work experience of owners, and other venture level attributes between FNVs and MNVs. More importantly, this study employs decomposition techniques to determine the individual cont...
5 months ago

Social Science

Foreign shareholder, overseas sale and corporate profit margin

China is actively promoting the development of a robust trading nation. In this context, utilizing data from China’s A-share listed companies spanning from 2003 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of foreign shareholders on enterprises in a scenario where overseas sales reduce the profit margin of Chinese firms. The findings reveal that overseas sales do indeed decrease the profit margin...
5 months ago

Social Science

Welfare costs of suboptimal retiree decisions

We make a novel investigation of welfare costs associated with various suboptimal decisions made by retirees, both analytically and numerically. We utilize a unique framework that incorporates recursive utility with housing, and also encompasses expected utility and recursive utility without housing as special cases. Our findings indicate that under-investment in stocks incurs lower welfare costs ...
5 months ago

Social Science

Environmental, energy security, and energy equity (3E) benefits of net-zero emission strategy in a developing country: A case study of Nepal

There is a growing number of national, subnational and even company targets for net-zero emissions of CO2 in support of the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting the global average temperature increase within 1.5 °C by 2100. The challenges faced by developing countries in achieving net-zero emissions targets are, however, very prominent due to their common desire for rapid economic growth, i...
1 year ago

Economics

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