We study the United Nations Organization's Kyoto Protocol nations to address two questions. First of all, what are the environmental production efficiency rankings of these nations? Secondly, is there a relationship between a nation's ratification status and its environmental production...

There has been a growing concern of developing industrial clusters in developed nations and emerging economies in the past two decades to strengthen economic growth and development. The concept of properly organised industrial clusters has not yet been heavily implemented in developing nations,...

This article deals with the business management controls for small-size companies. A business performance model for small companies of five dimensions (C1P4 Model (C one, four Ps), ‘C1' for customers, ‘P1' for people, ‘P2' for property, ‘P3' for production and ‘P4' for performance) is...

This paper describes the role of controls and proposes a business management controls framework which enables, facilitates and supports you in designing and implementing effective controls to operate all your business functions and control systems. Also two controls (Business Management Controls...

We document that mean earnings of managers grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle for a group of high-income countries. Furthermore, we find that the growth of earnings for managers (relative to non managers) is positively correlated with output per worker across these countries....

The present study aims to measure the technical efficiency and establish core factors affecting rice production in Cambodia. A four‐year dataset generated from the central government document “Profile on Economics and Social” of 25 entire provinces between 2012 and 2015 and the stochastic...

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

I document that for a group of 38 countries ranging from low to high income: (1) the share of skilled managers is higher in richer countries, (2) the relative income of managers to non-managers is lower in richer countries, and (3) the relative income of skilled to unskilled individuals is lower...

Spanish Abstract: Actualmente las empresas continúan compitiendo en liderazgo de costos y diferenciación, para la primera de estas estrategias es indispensable tener costos de producción bajos, lo que es de especial importancia para un gran número de empresas en diversos sectores...