In a competitive environment, innovation management in new product development can be used as an efficient tool for improving the competitive ground. Since patents may be considered as official proofs for innovative products, variables affecting patent production can also be viewed in a...

This paper focuses on the cost cutting effects of firm downsizing in a developing economy. Using a dualistic production structure to depict a developing economy, the impacts of downsizing on wage inequality and social welfare are examined. Downsizing is revealed to not only narrow the wage gap...

This paper explores the ability of a class of one-sector models to generate endogenous skills cycles. Skills cycles are here defined as endogenous fluctuations of the composition of equilibrium allocation of labor services. We consider a one sector economy in which there exist one type of...

Subcontractor's works constitute majority of the construction activities and they play very important roles to lead to project success. Project claims are always unremitting issues that entails a lot of cares in records and documentations save-keeping. Subcontractor became entangled with main...

When the world economies are taken into consideration, gold market maintains its function as a traditional investment place. The volatility in the gold prices can be seen as an indicator of non-stability for the market as a whole. Under such circumstances, the investors rearrange their savings...

The problem of project delays in construction industry is a global phenomenon; Malaysia is no exceptional. Delays are always considered as costly to all parties involved in the project and very often it will results in dispute, claims, total abandonment and blight the feasibility for project...

This article is focused on analysing the new Albanian competition framework in its efforts to be approximated with European Competition policies. It recommends further steps to be undertaken by Albanian authorities for the modernisation and Europeanisation of its competition law regime....

Corporate governance forms a system in which the objectives of the firm is determined, and points out the ways to achieve these aims and how performance is to be assessed. An efficient corporate governance system both at firm-level and economy in general will provide trust, which is necessary...