Households as well as community water-supply systems for utilisation of underground aquifers are massive consumers of energy. Prevailing energy crisis and focus of the government on demand-side energy policies (i.e., energy conservation) in Pakistan raises need of using energy efficient...

This study measures productive inefficiency in the textile sector of Faisalabad due to recent energy crisis in Pakistan. Primary data is collected randomly from 125 firms of the industry. Results explain that these firms are facing huge production loss which varies from 23 to 65 percent in...

This paper analyzes the relative performance of inflation and price-level targeting regimes in an AS-IS-LM framework under alternative policy instruments used by the central bank. Being general in its nature, the results are further used to derive equilibrium values of the important...

This paper explores the role of network usage, by the start-up self- employed, as a means of attracting customers. Following the theoretical rationale developed here, the network need only be used by business owners who sell goods/services which entail customer-perceived risk. For others, it may...

The business success of Indian emigrants has attracted a great deal of popular attention in recent years. The number of systematic studies, however, is woe fully limited, and so is our understanding of the factors impinging upon the entrepreneurial manifestations of Indians abroad. This paper...

The aim of this study was to establish the ways in which senior executives in four countries which shared a common language—United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand—characterized both their firm's marketing effectiveness, and corporate culture and beliefs. Results give...

This paper argues that it is important to devote greater attention to the study of entrepreneurship in technology transfer in the light of greater government attention, the growth in the phenomenon, the need to identify how wealth can be created from spin-outs, changes in the cultures of...