This working paper provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of
aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan between 2008 and 2021. These three countries …

While previous comparative research has identified the formal institutional conditions that
differentiate countries on their degree of informal entrepreneurship, this paper examines the …

The “failed/fragile/collapsed state” refers to state authority's complete or partial collapse,
such as Somalia and Bosnia. According to Fragile States Index 2020 annual report …

Both IDA and FDI are very important external financing channels for B&R countries.
Considering B&R countries as the sample, this paper analyzes the impact of the IDA …

While the international entrepreneurship literature has begun to expand its scope to include
the world's poorest and least-developed countries, it has not yet reached a consensus about …

This article contributes to literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) exhibited by
industrial clusters in develo** countries. The authors conceptualize and empirically …

Despite the vast number of people operating own-account informal ventures worldwide, few
studies have adopted a cross-national comparative lens to advance an integrative …

This paper proposes a two-dimensional lens to examine government capacity in develo**
countries. In addition to the conventional approach of assessing policies and institutions to …

Using meta-analytical techniques on a database of 158 studies covering 45 countries, we
build and test theory regarding important mediating and moderating mechanisms in the …

Purpose Various economic, strategic and sociopolitical factors drive the decisions related to
the location of global supply chain partners. Yet, research on how sociopolitical factors affect …