Seeking Assurances When Taking Action: Legal Systems, Social Trust, and Starting Businesses in Emerging Economies

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 359-391

  Kim, Phillip H ^a   Li, Mingxiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

emerging economies; legal systems; nascent entrepreneurship; normative institutions; protective function of law; social trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894547293     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613499566     Document Type: Article

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