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Bat Batjargal, Sarah Jack, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Erik Stam, Wouter Stam, Karl Wennberg. Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2023; 47. [ DOI: 10.1177/10422587221102106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these differences. In addition, we find larger mental health responses among self-employed women who were directly affected by government-imposed restrictions and bore an increased childcare burden due to school and daycare closures. We also find that self-employed individuals who are more resilient coped better with the crisis.
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Horvatinovic T, Mikic M, Dabić M. Dissecting entrepreneurial team research: a bibliometric analysis. Rev Manag Sci 2023. [PMCID: PMC10037398 DOI: 10.1007/s11846-023-00652-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/26/2023]
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Despite the massive volume of published articles, the pool of knowledge on entrepreneurial teams needs to be algorithmically classified and meticulously scrutinised. It is crucial for the field to be historically positioned under relevant themes, internally connected in terms of conceptual foundations, and systematically categorised in consonance with previously utilised frameworks of analysis. These concerns are resolved in this study by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 672 relevant articles. This form of analysis has not been previously employed on the topic of entrepreneurial teams. First, this study identifies eight main thematic clusters in the entrepreneurial teams field and their sub-themes. The eight main thematic clusters are: (i) Intellectual Capital, (ii) Cognition and Behaviour, (iii) Science and Technology, (iv) Finance, (v) Transformation, (vi) Internationalisation, (vii) Family, and (viii) Community and Surroundings. Second, the study reveals the clusters most needing restoration, relations between clusters, and input-mediator-output variables by their respective cluster. In addition, an implied scholarly depiction of entrepreneurial teams is articulated, which can serve as a basis for developing an entrepreneurial teams theory. Finally, promising avenues for future research are suggested for the entire field and every cluster specifically.
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- Tin Horvatinovic
- grid.4808.40000 0001 0657 4636Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Zagreb, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, Zagreb, 10 000 Croatia
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- grid.4808.40000 0001 0657 4636Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Zagreb, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, Zagreb, 10 000 Croatia
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- grid.4808.40000 0001 0657 4636Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Zagreb, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, Zagreb, 10 000 Croatia
- grid.445423.0University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, 20 000 Croatia
- grid.8954.00000 0001 0721 6013School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, Ljubljana, 1 000 Slovenia
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Anwar M, Clauss T, Meyer N. Entrepreneurship in family firms: an updated bibliometric overview. Rev Manag Sci 2023. [PMCID: PMC10032270 DOI: 10.1007/s11846-023-00650-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2023]
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Research on entrepreneurship in family firms has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Due to the various theoretical perspectives and contexts found here however, this body of research remains fragmented, with a unified understanding of the current state of knowledge and the opportunities for future research in the field continuing to lack. In this study, we address this gap by conducting an updated bibliometric analysis of the research on entrepreneurship in family firms. Here we integrate two different bibliometric methods to provide a more comprehensive picture of the field, unveiling its intellectual foundations and current research discourses and how these two are related. To do this, we first conduct a co-citation analysis clustering the intellectual foundations of the research on entrepreneurship in family firms. Second, a bibliographic coupling of recent publications from 2010 to 2021 provides a transparent structure of current research discourses. Third, analyzing which intellectual foundations are primarily cited in each current research stream unveils the dominant theoretical paradigms in the current state of research. Analyzing 570 published studies, we identified four intellectual foundations of entrepreneurship in family firms: socioemotional wealth (SEW), entrepreneurial orientation, family-embedded resources, and agency theory. The current research can be clustered into seven main discourses: entrepreneurial motivation, gender and success, entrepreneurial orientation, individual and firm-level characteristics, the family embedded network, family firm internationalization, and family heterogeneity. An integrative network diagram provides an overview of the research field’s development while also identifying the gaps to be addressed by future research.
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- Muhammad Anwar
- grid.412581.b0000 0000 9024 6397Witten Institute for Family Business, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
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- grid.412581.b0000 0000 9024 6397Witten Institute for Family Business, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
- grid.10825.3e0000 0001 0728 0170 Department of Innovation and Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- grid.412988.e0000 0001 0109 131XUniversity of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Mateja Drnovšek, Alenka Slavec, Darija Aleksić. “I want it all”: exploring the relationship between entrepreneurs’ satisfaction with work–life balance, well-being, flow and firm growth. Rev Manag Sci 2023. [ DOI: 10.1007/s11846-023-00623-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Drawing from the conservation of resources theory, we explore how two personal resources (satisfaction with work–life balance and experience of flow at work) contribute to two important outcomes in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being and firm growth. Although previous research has emphasized the importance of personal factors for firm growth and explored a variety of factors affecting entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being, little attention has been paid to the role of satisfaction with work–life balance as a critical personal resource for entrepreneurs. With this study, we find that entrepreneurs’ satisfaction with work–life balance is positively associated with subjective well-being, which, in turn, mediates the relationship between satisfaction with work–life balance and firm growth. Our study also shows that experiencing flow at work accentuates the relationship between satisfaction with work–life balance and subjective well-being. Based on our findings, we offer implications for practicing entrepreneurs in terms of how to achieve higher levels of well-being and better firm growth. Specifically, we emphasize the benefits of achieving satisfaction with work–life balance, as this is important for an entrepreneur’s subjective well-being and has an indirect impact on firm growth. Stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems should embrace subjective well-being as an important indicator of firm outcomes alongside traditional economic measures.
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Filippopoulos N, Fotopoulos G. Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis. Ann Reg Sci 2023:1-30. [PMID: 37361118 PMCID: PMC9959941 DOI: 10.1007/s00168-023-01214-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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This research aims to investigate the role of employment protection in affecting the relationship between regional self-employment and unemployment during turbulent times. In doing so, data comprised of 230 regions, nested in 17 EU countries, for the 2008-2015 period were used. When accounting for individual effects, we find that an increase in regional unemployment would decrease regional self-employment, while the opposite was found true for employment protection. When accounting for the cross-level interaction between regional unemployment and national employment protection legislation, however, we find that the underlying increased labor market rigidity not only decreases regional self-employment, but it also magnifies the adverse effect of regional unemployment. Our key results thus indicate that high labor market rigidity hinders self-employment. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00168-023-01214-5.
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Bel Hadj Miled K. Microfinance and women entrepreneurship development: evidence from Tunisia. SN Bus Econ 2023; 3:12. [PMCID: PMC9736707 DOI: 10.1007/s43546-022-00381-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of microfinance on women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment, using national household data from Tunisia. We have employed Logistic Regressions and Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to study the consequences of microfinance use.We find positive and significant effects of access to credit on women’s work, attitudes toward income increase, execution of the micro-projects, and schooling attendance. The results confirm the potential of micro-finance in women’s empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development in Tunisia, especially during COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Kamel Bel Hadj Miled
- College of Sciences and Arts Sajir, Shaqra University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ,Laboratory of Management of Innovation and Sustainable Development (LAMIDED), University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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Cornet D, Bonnet J, Bourdin S. Digital entrepreneurship indicator (DEI): an analysis of the case of the greater Paris metropolitan area. Ann Reg Sci 2022; 71:1-28. [PMID: 36275995 PMCID: PMC9574823 DOI: 10.1007/s00168-022-01175-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The digital entrepreneurship indicator (DEI), which combines individual and institutional data, is designed to chart the vitality of metropolitan areas in terms of digital entrepreneurship on a suburban scale. In this study, we apply it to the case of the Greater Paris Metropolitan area. Using geographically weighted regression, we explore the spatial heterogeneity of the effect of digital entrepreneurial ecosystems on the location quotient of information and communication technology firms with fewer than 10 employees. The results highlight a positive link between the DEI and the location quotient of small ICT firms. In particular, the aspects of both ATTitudes and CAPacities (i.e., urbanization economies, Human Development Index, density of incubators, accounting and financial services, and fiber optic coverage) appear to have a significant effect on a suburban scale.
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- Dorine Cornet
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital, 75642 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Unicaen, CNRS, CREM, Normandie Univ, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 CAEN Cedex 5, France
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- Métis Lab, EM Normandie Business School, 9 rue Claude Bloch, 14 000 Caen, France
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Zhang T, Stough R, Gerlowski D. Digital exposure, age, and entrepreneurship. Ann Reg Sci 2022; 69:633-681. [PMID: 35466286 PMCID: PMC9020429 DOI: 10.1007/s00168-022-01130-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This study focuses on age and digital exposure as factors driving individuals to be (1) employees or entrepreneurs, (2) full-time or part-time, or (3) opportunity or necessity entrepreneurs. It extends occupational choice models, relying on a utility maximization framework, to entrepreneur types incorporating age and digital exposure effects. Using 132 months of Current Population Survey data and multilevel modelling with individuals' fixed effects and metropolitan area random effects, the study finds that (1) workers with low- and high- digital exposure are more likely to become entrepreneurs than peers with medium digital exposure, mirroring digitization's "push" and "pull" mechanisms on entrepreneurship; (2) age strengthens digitization's "pull" mechanism to be entrepreneurs (versus employees) and opportunity (versus necessity) entrepreneurs; (3) digital exposure has a weak marginal potential to increase workers' odds to be part-time (versus full-time) entrepreneurs. The study also notes the importance of location and concludes with discussion and implications.
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- Ting Zhang
- Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, 1420 N Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 USA
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- Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Van Metre Hall, 3351 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201 USA
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- Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, 1420 N Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 USA
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Karamti C, Abd-Mouleh NW. Finding Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Tunisia. J Knowl Econ 2022. [PMCID: PMC8865951 DOI: 10.1007/s13132-021-00888-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Entrepreneurship is a highly complex process influenced by numerous factors. The goal of this paper is to identify the combinations of fundamental entrepreneurial determinants that drive opportunity recognition (OR) in different economic environments. We focus on two points in Tunisia’s recent economic cycle: before and after the 2011 Revolution. Using micro-level survey data, the study employs ordered logit analysis to identify basic entrepreneur characteristics that may increase the likelihood of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities during these two economic cycle phases. Several key factors, such as training, creativity, and social networks, are found to be ineffective in the OR process. Furthermore, education attainment lost its major and well-established function throughout Tunisia’s profound and protracted socioeconomic crisis. Only self-efficacy and prior experience have particularly strong effects on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities during the period of economic downturn. Despite the government's efforts to incorporate entrepreneurship education into university curricula and business practices, these findings show that Tunisia is still in the early phases of entrepreneurship integration and development, with patchy and uncoordinated activity. The drivers of entrepreneurial perception in the quest for opportunities described by western theories should not be applied uniformly in less developed economies, which have unique political and economic contexts and challenges. We also noticed that the revolution’s resulting crisis did not deter young entrepreneurs from launching business ventures. This finding may pique the Tunisian government’s interest in devising an effective strategy to support young entrepreneurship, especially in light of the new COVID-19 outbreak’s potential impact on Tunisia’s already vulnerable economy.
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- Chiraz Karamti
- Department of Quantitative Methods and Computer, Higher Institute of Business Administration (ISAAS), Sfax University, Road of Mharza Km 1.5, B.P: 1164, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Present Address: Department of Management, Higher Institute of Business Administration (ISAAS), Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia
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Röhl KH, Engels B. [More Cooperation Between Startups and SMEs as an Opportunity for Digital Transformation and Innovation]. Wirtschaftsdienst 2021; 101:381-386. [PMID: 34024952 PMCID: PMC8127484 DOI: 10.1007/s10273-021-2922-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The Coronavirus crisis clearly exposed Germany's deficits in the digitalisation of the economy and society. The cooperation between established SMEs and innovative start-ups offers considerable opportunities for the respective companies and the German economy. New business models can be adopted and innovative products can be jointly developed. In particular, the digitalisation of the 'German Mittelstand' could receive a boost through collaboration with digital start-ups. This could lead to an increase in the demographically induced declining growth potential of the German economy.
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- Klaus-Heiner Röhl
- Kompetenzfeld Digitalisierung, Strukturwandel und Wettbewerb, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V., Georgenstraße 22, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland
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- Industrieökonomik und Wettbewerb, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V., Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 21, 50668 Köln, Deutschland
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Caiazza R, Phan P, Lehmann E, Etzkowitz H. An absorptive capacity-based systems view of Covid-19 in the small business economy. Int Entrep Manag J 2021; 17:1419-1439. [PMCID: PMC8178651 DOI: 10.1007/s11365-021-00753-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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According to Johns Hopkins University, by December 2020, more than 78 million SARS-COV-2 (Covid-19) cases have been reported with more than 1.7 million deaths, out of which more than 300 thousand were in the U.S. alone. No country on earth has been untouched by the preemptive creation of a global recession to combat a global disease. Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains, consumption patterns, and business models in a multitude of industries which include a large share of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs account for the largest share of employment in market-based economies so any discussion of the economic impact of Covid-19 is incomplete without the SME sector. The purpose of this paper is to explore a systems perspective of the Covid-19 pandemic using the absorptive capacity construct.
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- Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD USA
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Blaese R, Noemi S, Brigitte L. Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Job satisfaction as a moderating factor between outcome expectations and entrepreneurial intention among academics. Int Entrep Manag J 2021; 17:1357-1386. [PMCID: PMC8215324 DOI: 10.1007/s11365-021-00744-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Both psychological and entrepreneurship research have highlighted the pivotal role of job satisfaction in the process of entrepreneurial career decisions. In support of this, mounting evidence point to inter-relationships between entrepreneurial intention, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Prior research operationalized entrepreneurial careers as an escape from poor work environments; thus, there is a lack of understanding regarding how job-satisfaction can trigger entrepreneurship within and related to the environment of universities. This study, draws on Social Cognitive Career Theory and the concept of entrepreneurial intention, to address whether the role of job satisfaction is a moderating factor between outcome expectations and entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we examine to what extent (I) entrepreneurial intention and (II) spin-off intention are determined by certain outcome expectations and perceived behavioral control. To address these questions this study examined academic researchers in specialized and non-technical fields and builds on a survey of 593 academic researchers at Swiss Universities of Applied Science. The results showed that outcome expectations are a significant predictor for entrepreneurial intentions, in general, and spin-off intentions, in particular. A multi-group analysis corroborated that job satisfaction operates as a motivational factor in entrepreneurial transition and interactions with entrepreneurial outcome expectations. In conclusion, the concept of job satisfaction and Social Cognitive Career Theory were powerful constructs to better the understand the process of entrepreneurial career decisions by academic researchers.
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- Richard Blaese
- Department of Social Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 64A, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland
- University of Applied,Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland
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- University of Applied,Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland
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- Department of Social Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 64A, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland
- University of Applied,Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland
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