This study explores the relationship between university governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Zamboanga City, Philippines. With higher education institutions increasingly tasked with addressing societal challenges, the role of...

The paper investigates whether scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity frontier and subsequently explain the distance of...

The denomination of the relations of cooperation between companies as Strategic Alliances is the result of more than 20 years of research on this subject. However in XXI century appear new forms in response and adaptation to a turbulent environment. Therefore, the paper presented deals with the...

A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems. In this paper, we present a complex networks perspective on interfirm organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and...

The international expansion of hotel chains is the subject of various sciences and approaches which sits the process and the role of strategic alliances in its performance, but insufficient treatment and considerations from the context in which operate from underdeveloped economies, the main...

This paper is an academic treatment of the pricing of stallion seasons (a “season ” confers the right to breed a mare to a stallion) The commercial stallion seasons market can be represented schematically as a triangle that normally has a single-digit number of stallions offering high-priced...

In the globalization era, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is emerging a debatable hot issue because of its ineffectiveness and poor performance in developing countries, when role of Multinational Corporation (MNC) has been effective as alternative investment in developing countries for...

Multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is an imperative economic engine. MFP dynamism across five advanced and seven developing countries from 1996 to 2015 is analyzed, elucidating its association with financing and intangible assets. Debt is manifested by its inverted U-shaped nonlinear...

The impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on firm performance has become the subject of active research in the last four decades. This study’s goal is to review the effect of ICT on the financial performance of firms in the consumer goods sector as measured by their Return...

This study examines the effectiveness and policy implications of veterans' welfare services administered by the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Utilising a mixed-methods approach, the research integrates quantitative surveys with qualitative interviews...