While most studies argue that, relational embeddedness, one facet of social capital, facilitates the obtaining process of scarce resources, our study cautions that it may exert negative impacts. This study examines the underlying process about how shared cognition influences new business...

This paper investigates a single machine scheduling problem with deteriorating jobs. By a deteriorating job, we mean that the processing time is an increasing function of its execution starting time. Job deterioration is described by a function which is proportional to a linear function of time....

An old yet rarely explored motive of hoarding international reserves advanced by Machlup (1966) is examined. Reserve accumulation behavior in Asia is driven by a psychological desire to keep up with neighboring countries, i.e., 'keeping up with the Joneses effect'.

<title>ABSTRACT</title> Preferences for college education among year 12 and 13 high school seniors from throughout New Zealand were surveyed. Initial focus group researched students in the process of deciding on college education and/or on a particular college or university institution in their choice process....

The food miles concept, originating in the UK and given much prominence in the news media, has been used to imply that importing food from distant countries is inherently more wasteful than growing and consuming local produce. What impact is this potential non-tariff barrier having on consumer...