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This research emerged from the belief that merely economic explanations of rent seeking were too narrow and an interdisciplinary approach was needed to understand historical structural factors that contribute to particularistic exchanges. Rent-seeking and particularistic ties ar…

Enterprise groups are common to many countries and tend to dominate the economies in which they are found. Most of the pertinent scholarly work on enterprise groups has focused primarily on the successful cases. However, not all enterprise groups are successful. Thus, the factor…