The present study investigates the impact of student diversity on performance of first-year undergraduate accounting students. The paper is motivated by (i) increasing diversity amongst the accounting student cohort because of the trend to internationalise education services in industrialised...

Purpose – Institutional governance theory is used to explain voluntary corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting in the context of a market governance system in the absence of climate change public policy. This paper seeks to hypothesise that GHG reporting is related to internal organisation...

As an important project type of Agile Software Development, the performance evaluation and prediction for eXtreme Programming project has significant meanings. Targeting on the short release life cycle and concurrent multitask features, a statistical earned value analysis model is proposed....

To measure the propulsive performance of a high-frequency PDRE (pulse detonation rocket engine), an experimental facility was established. Utilizing the valveless mode, the PDRE was operated without the purge process at a maximum operating frequency of 110 Hz successfully. In this study,...

This paper uses a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), a method to estimate the adjustment speed of variables toward their long-run relationship in the short run, to investigate the dynamic relationship between the prices of EUA, coal, natural gas and electricity futures. It finds that there is...

In this comparative study, we conduct an empirical analysis on entrepreneurial intentions of college students in China and Pakistan based upon Shapero's entrepreneurial event model. Based on our empirical results, we suggest constructing a holistic policy with active cooperation from the...