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National Cultural Distance and Cross-Border Acquisition Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a sample of 52 cross-border acquisitions that took place between 1987 and 1992, and found a positive association between national cultural distance and cross border acquisition performance by providing access to the target's and the acquirer's diverse set of routines and repertoires embedded in national culture.
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Luigi Guiso,Paola Sapienza,Paola Sapienza,Paola Sapienza,Luigi Zingales,Luigi Zingales,Luigi Zingales +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the well-known differences in social capital across different parts of Italy to identify the effect of social capital on financial development, and show that the behavior of movers is still affected by the level of Social capital present in the province where they were born.
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Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries
TL;DR: The good governance agenda is unrealistically long and growing longer over time as discussed by the authors, and there is little guidance about what's essential and what's not, what should come first and what should follow, what can be achieved in the short term and what can only be achieved over the longer term, what is feasible and what is not, and more attention is given to sorting out these questions, "good enough governance" may become a more realistic goal for many countries faced with the goal of reducing poverty.
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The social psychology of protest
TL;DR: This article provided a theoretical and empirical overview of why people protest, including grievances, efficacy, identification, emotions and social embeddedness, followed by the most recent approaches, which combine these concepts into dual pathway models.
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Social Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between social capital and democracy is tested using data from a large, quantitative, cross-national study, and results show that social capital affects democracy and that democracy affects social capital.