Essays about: "Institutional Entrepreneurship"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 71 essays containing the words Institutional Entrepreneurship.

  1. 16. Human capital, Institutional Environment and Social Entrepreneurship - A multilevel analysis of determinants for social entrepreneurship

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Anja Bräu; [2021]
    Keywords : Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Institutional Environment; Europe; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Multilevel Modelling; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : European policymakers are increasingly interested in encouraging and supporting social entrepreneurship. Addressing the goal, this thesis analyses the relationship between human capital and an individual’s propensity for social entrepreneurship in European countries. READ MORE

  3. 17. Drivers of Sustainability in the Swedish Financial Market: A Qualitative Study on the Swedish National Pension Funds

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Peggy Jägfeldt; Erik Olivecrona; [2021]
    Keywords : Active Ownership; Corporate Dialogues; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Institutional Owners; Socially Responsible Investing;

    Abstract : Over the past few decades, the world has seen the continuation and rise in the severity of issues facing the long-term wellbeing of people and the environment. To surmount these pressing challenges, society is aiming to change the standard profit-maximizing models of corporations to ones that include considerations for sustainability issues. READ MORE

  4. 18. Immigrant entrepreneurship : the case of Lithuanian immigrant entrepreneursin rural East of England

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Tomas Jankus; [2021]
    Keywords : immigrant entrepreneurship; rural; mixed embeddedness; migration; business; co-ethnics; entrepreneurs;

    Abstract : The interplay of migration and entrepreneurship has been shifted to a significant research area by the continuous increase of immigrants as a share in the population of countries, that are considered to be having a high attractiveness towards migrants. The United Kingdom has been pronounced as one of the countries receiving the biggest flows of immigrants. READ MORE

  5. 19. Measuring Informal Institutions with Google Trends

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Bjoern Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Informal institutions; quality of institutions; R D; financial literacy; development; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Informal institutions are believed to be especially determinant in institutional change, as argued by both old and new institutional economic theory. However, due to the complexity of quantifying them, they are rarely measured. In this study, I examine how well one can capture informal institutions by using Google Trends. READ MORE

  6. 20. Assessing Change Agency in Urban Experiments for Sustainability Transitions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Lukas Röbke; [2021]
    Keywords : Change Agency; Urban Sustainability Transitions; Urban Experiments; Gothenburg; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis adresses a lack engagement with the role of agency in the literature on urban sustainability transitions and urban experiments. By introducing the trinity of change agency framework from economic geography a hypothesis of how agentic processes can be conceptualized for urban sustainability transitions is developed. READ MORE