Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the Australian economy. The OECD (2000) reports that SMEs are the core to a nation?s future economic growth and account for 95 percent of enterprises and 60 to 70 percent of jobs. The existing literature on small business...

This study investigates the impact of the New Tax System and other factors on the capital structure of the Australian listed real estate property enterprises. Hypotheses utilising Static Trade-off, Pecking Order and Market Timing theories are empirically examined using a series of the taxes...

Funds availability has always been a major constraint to micro and small business development projects in many Asian and Latin American countries, and more so for all African countries. An assortment of various credit models has been devised and used over time by policy makers in these countries...

Research into the structural design of online loyalty programmes is conspicuous by its relative novelty. The trend has been to extend traditional offline loyalty programmes into this new environment even though considerable differences exist between the two domains. At the same time web start-up...

The last two decades have been a critical period for Thailand's development. From the mid 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s, the Thai economy performed remarkably well and was a showcase for the world economy. Having achieved a double-digit growth rate for a brief period, Thailand in the late...

With the rapid development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such...

This is an econometric study of development finance with an emphasis on empirical investigation of the financial market. Applying econometric methods to investigate empirical characteristics of the financial market and its components such as the stock market is an important area of study in...