In the past, engineers have typically focused on product design and innovation through newer technologies, while marketers have focused on market and competitor intelligence and customer preferences. The time has come for an effective integration of these two focal areas for the successful...

The basic idea of this stream of workshop is twofold. On the one there is an assumption that looking at management and accounting in a integrated way, or at least making this two areas of research interact, is useful in order to better understand socio economic systems, at different levels. On...

Organized by the SEASREP Foundation, with support from the Toyota Foundation and Japan Foundation, the conference provides an occasion for SEASREP not merely to showcase its achievements over the years, but position itself as a regional institution and network in the next decade. The conference...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...

Meeting India’s resource needs for future infrastructure development is a long-term industrial challenge and will require adjustments in consumption patterns both within the country and across the region. The public and private sectors must develop a holistic approach to the problem, linking...

The second workshop will address situational, strategic, management and controlling dimensions of corporate governance.

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...

THE EDITORS OF Advances in Econometrics, a research annual published by Elsevier Science, are currently soliciting abstracts and papers covering applied or theoretical topics relevant to the analysis of treatment effects. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: treatment effect...

The theme of this year's conference is Reforms. In the last two decades, many countries have reformed their economies to give market forces a greater role and to make the institutional environment more hospitable. The conference's goal is to present theoretical and empirical research on how...