variously influence the nature and extent of HRM practices. By considering the findings of prior research on convergence and …

estimate the half life of convergence to be approximately 9 years. The following hypotheses are investigated as explanations … for the slow convergence: (i) Arbitrage impediments induced by transportation costs, and (ii) and the inclusion of … upper bound on convergence rates that participants in European Monetary Union may experience. …

present study suggests an asymmetric, convergence-stimulating impact of EU membership on long-term growth. …

members have diverged since the Eurozone was created, in contrast to earlier trends which had seen rapid convergence in living … were different and led to convergence rather than divergence. Important reasons for this were Eastern Europe's relatively …

critère de synchronisation des cycles : l'intensité commerciale et la convergence budgétaire des pays membres. Dans ce papier …, nous analysons dans une perspective empirique le rôle des Unions Économiques et Monétaires africaines dans la convergence … Communautés Économiques Régionales (CER) en matière d'accélération de la convergence des indicateurs budgétaires. Ces résultats …

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset … that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for β-convergence and δ-convergence … districts. Our results reveal no evidence of convergence across Germany or within states; rather, we discover widespread …

This paper discusses the legitimacy of the convergence of accounting regulation from the view of path-dependence theory … of corporate governance systems have to be consistent with these values in order to achieve the real convergence of … accounting standards. The paper analyses the development of accounting convergence and discusses different convergence strategies …

national economies, thus entailing some convergence. The early pandemic has been followed by intentions to digitalize, which … digitalization as a global phenomenon and the pandemic as an external enabler that has promoted catching up and convergence in …

In this paper, we focus on the telecommunications/computing convergence in business market. While the …/computing convergence has drawn less attention. This is also the case in general of the business market as opposed to the consumer market …. The business communications market has been deeply transformed by technological and product convergence, due to the …