Traditional empirical methods of designing railway track rely on simplistic impact factor methods that crudely represent the complex dynamic behaviour of track and train interaction and of the defects that give rise to damaging forces. Various analytical models have been developed around the...

Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. This conflict in resource use occurs in Ghana, a developing country in the tropics where the capital needed for mining is obtained from foreign direct investment (FDI). We use a dynamic model...

Some authors point to the analysis of enterprise cooperation, as a dynamic process, as a future line of research. Within this context and looking at second grade Andalusian oil cooperative movement, we analyse of there is a positive association between the degree of adherence to the cooperative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to calculate the net gains or losses for the ASEAN Members 1998‐2007 in the East Asian market. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a new extension to the shift‐share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies with a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to calculate the net gains or losses for the ASEAN Members 1998-2007 in the East Asian market. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a new extension to the shift-share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies with a dynamic...