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Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair (Island Studies), University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Leo Paul Dana, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

ABSTRACT. The island of St. Martin is the world’s smallest shared jurisdiction. For around 350 years, 37 square miles (92km2) have been divided into two legal entities, Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint Martin, each with its separate sub-national government and its respective business policies. This situation carries the hallmarks of an almost controlled experiment on the impact of ‘The Protestant Ethic’, with each nation’s respective policy being the treatment variable under study. Keeping other variables constant, government policy is the key variable analysed in the framework of two examined theoretical models.

SOMMAIRE. L’île de Saint-Martin est la plus petite juridiction divisée du monde. Depuis environ 350 ans, ses 37 miles carrés (92 km2) constituent deux entités légales, le Sint Martin hollandais et le Saint-Martin français, qui ont chacune leur gouvernement sous-national avec ses politiques d’entreprises spécifiques. Cette situation porte la marque d’une expérience presque contrôlée sur l’impact de la morale protestante : les politiques respectives des deux nations y jouent le rôle de variables de traitement. Les autres variables étant gardées constantes, la politique gouvernementale constitue la variable clé analysée dans le cadre de deux modèles théoriques à l’étude.

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