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Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition
TL;DR: It is argued that geographically localized social capital affects a firm's ability to innovate through various external channels and that being located in a region characterized by a high level of social capital leads to a higher propensity to innovate.
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Breaking the path of institutional development?: alternatives to the new determinism
TL;DR: The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in NIN analysis, so that studies using this framework have difficulty in accounting for, or predicting, change.
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Which country matters? Institutional development and foreign affiliate performance
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the level of institutional development of host countries on the level and variation in foreign affiliate performance is investigated, and the results suggest that the level as determined by the Institutional Development Index (IDI), a new measurement developed in this study, has a strong negative curvilinear relationship with the variation in the foreign affiliate's performance and a negative effect on the overall performance of foreign affiliate.
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From Individual to Collective Capabilities: The Capability Approach as a Conceptual Framework for Self‐help
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Capability Approach (CA), with its emphasis on freedoms and agency, is a suitable conceptual framework for self-help analysis, and they point out the limitations of the CA in capturing the interactive relationship between individual capabilities and social structures.
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Self-Enforcing Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a model in which citizens can always protest or rebel against the current ruler, but can unseat the ruler only if enough people rebel, and they show that the electoral results act as a cheap talk signal that allows the public to commit to rebel if a losing ruler does not step down.