Building Ease-of-Doing-Business synthetic indicators using a double reference point approach

Ruiz, Francisco; Cabello, José Manuel Jiménez; Pérez-Gladish, Blanca

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.06.005

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“…As pointed by Ruiz, Cabello and Pérez-Gladish (2018), investment location decisions may entail the entrepreneur to focus on those countries where such investments seem more accurate, wiser and secure. In this vein, effective and transparent business regulatory systems developed by governments that enable entrepreneurship is a research subject requiring a deeper analysis.…”

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“…Schueth, 2010Schueth, , 2015Cooley, 2015) and pointed out the existence of certain significant methodological flaws. Furthermore, an independent evaluation study suggested the need for developing more informative rankings (World Bank, 2008;Ruiz et al, 2018). Thus, the relationship between the ease of doing business and socio-economic remains unclear as prior research has conducted to inconclusive results.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this area still requires further analysis (Mongay, 2018). Specifically, a government role as facilitator of enterprises' creation is identified as the key issue for economic growth of regions (Ruiz, Cabello and Pérez-Gladish, 2018). For this reason, entrepreneur abilities to modify their environment through leveraging opportunities resulted from wealth creation, as Wang (2017) pointed out, need to be strengthened, or at least not hindered, by governments serving to develop their potential (Szirmai, Naudé and Goedhuys, 2011).…”

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Could the Ease of Doing Business be considered a predictor of countries' Socio-Economic Wealth? An empirical analysis using PLS-SEM

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The wealth of nations differs significantly due to different factors. One of the reasons identified by previous studies is the level of entrepreneurship promotion by governments. This aspect has scarcely been studied empirically to date. Therefore, this paper sheds some light on this regard through building a construct out of ten Ease of Doing Business Index (EDBI) measures developed by the World Bank and relating it with a construct shaped by two measures of socioeconomic wealth (SEW), namely gross domestic product and the Human Development Index. To this end, we conduct a structural equation model analysis using partial least squares (PLS-SEM) method with a 2018 database comprising secondary data from 190 countries. As the main contribution of this study, the results show that good performance in the EDBI ranking predicts good performance in the SEW ranking. Additionally, this study is pioneer in the use of these rankings to build composite constructs (latent variables) and relate them. For these reasons, our findings are useful for both academia and governments responsible for promoting entrepreneurship, as this latter is identified as the key enabler of economic development.

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Could the Ease of Doing Business be considered a predictor of countries' Socio-Economic Wealth? An empirical analysis using PLS-SEM

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“…Namely, a certain degree of compensation between the different indicators was presumed, although the LGP method implies that there is no finite trade-off between the different indicators of the different criteria considered [89]. However, in the literature, aggregated sustainability indexes based on multicriteria techniques including premises associated with strong sustainability can be found; i.e., it is found that there cannot be compensation between the criteria [104], nor can a certain degree of compensation between criteria even be chosen [105,106].…”

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Sustainability in Forest Management Revisited Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

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Since its origins, the idea of sustainability has always been linked to forest management. However, nowadays, sustainable forest management has usually been approached by defining a set of criteria and indicators. This paper aims to address sustainability in forest management including a set of criteria encompassing the most common decisions: whether the stands are even or uneven-aged, and the optimal silviculture that should be applied in each stand. For this purpose, a lexicographic goal programming model with two priority levels has been defined, into which six different criteria are integrated. Each criterion corresponds to a particular pillar (economic, technical, or environmental). Furthermore, also incorporated into the model are the preferences of diverse stakeholders, both for the criteria considered in the analysis and for the most suitable silvicultural alternatives to be applied in each stand. This methodology has been applied to a case study in Spain, and the results show much more attractive solutions than the current forest management planning, allowing the obtainment of multi-aged systems that could be favourable for other ecosystem services.

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“…Additionally, it should be noted that the degree of compensation between C/I can always be specified in MDF methods (Ruiz et al, 2017). For instance, in defining a lexicographic goal programming model, it can always be guaranteed that certain indicators reach values corresponding to the levels aspired.…”

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Measuring the sustainability of a natural system by using multi-criteria distance function methods: Some critical issues

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There is an important body of literature using multi-criteria distance function methods for the aggregation of a battery of sustainability indicators in order to obtain a composite index. This index is considered to be a proxy of the sustainability goodness of a natural system. Although this approach has been profusely used in the literature, it is not exempt from difficulties and potential pitfalls. Thus, in this paper, a significant number of critical issues have been identified showing different procedures capable of avoiding, or at least of mitigating, the inherent potential pitfalls associated with each one. The recommendations made in the paper could increase the theoretical soundness of the multi-criteria distance function methods when this type of approach is applied in the sustainability field, thus increasing the accuracy and realism of the sustainability measurements obtained.

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Building Ease-of-Doing-Business synthetic indicators using a double reference point approach

Cited by 42 publications

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Sustainability in Forest Management Revisited Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

Measuring the sustainability of a natural system by using multi-criteria distance function methods: Some critical issues

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