In the global ICT industry, an explosion of alliances has been observed. This study aims to analyse the interfirm collaboration phenomenon in the ICT firms in Poland. Previous studies show that unlike in developed countries, interfirm collaboration in Poland is not a common way of firms'...

The relation between worker autonomy, transformational leadership, and cultural intelligence has rapidly increased in importance in recent years (e.g., Earley and Ang, 2003; Harris et al., 2004; Hofstede and Hofstede, 2005; Mead, 2005; Peterson, 2004). The ability to work effectively with members of an...

In this paper, we analyse country risk of eight Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by calculating time-varying betas. We have used daily closing prices of indices from 3 June 2002 through 2 December 2011, resulting in 2021 observations. The time-varying betas where calculated by...

Promotion of private investment is a necessity for capital formation in African countries. Foreign private investment in particular, is considered to be a source of the scarce capital resources, valuable technological know-how and corporate norms and practices. However, given the political...

This paper examines the causal relationship between exports and growth in nine provinces of South Africa for the period 1995-2011, using panel causality analysis, which accounts for cross-section dependency and heterogeneity across regions. Our empirical results support unidirectional causality...

Students' experiences and learning skills are key performance indicators for an institution's performance. A questionnaire survey was conducted between university business students for a period of one semester to ascertain the role of improved learning strategies which are central to strategic...

The theoretical framework used in this paper combines the Ranis-Fei model with the Harris-Todaro model. A comparative country study approach is adopted. The paper demonstrates that in the case of labour surplus countries like India, Brazil, and Philippines, the urban informal sector developed...

In this study, we examine the causal relationship between government expenditure and economic growth - using the recently developed ARDL-bounds testing approach. The causal relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has been a subject of extensive debate in recent years....

This paper investigates the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Serbia. We collect individual bank balance sheet data for 33 banks over the period 2008Q3-2011Q2 and employ dynamic panel estimation techniques. Two different bank loan supply functions are investigated according to the...

The present study tries to understand the trends and determinants of economic growth in the Indian states in the post-reform period. For this, it considers the role of financial sector development since this sector has seen substantial reform measures. With the help of panel time series models,...