This Selected Issues paper on the Republic of Kazakhstan underlies growth of the non-oil sector, fiscal management of oil wealth, and bank credit growth. The share of tradables in the non-oil sector has declined significantly, both in terms of value added and employment, while many nontradable...

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

Texaco in the UK introduced self‐development using 360° feedback as part of the company’s quest to move away from hierarchical management. Describes the firm’s Mpower initiative.

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the linkages between oil prices and stock market in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Prior work argues that oil prices and the GCC stock markets are not related. This conclusion could be due to the fact that only linear linkages...

Following civilian disasters such as Piper Alpha, Hillsborough and King′s Cross, personnel professionals are rethinking the types of individuals needed to fill senior posts, considering the demands of responding to a serious emergency. Presents the results from a project designed to examine...

Examines current operational practice in the UK oil industry in relation to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) ‐ a voluntary and confidential workplace counselling and support service. Suggests that the industry contains a high number of potential stressors relating to the environment in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of diversification on returns of firms in chemical and oil industries. Design/methodology/approach – In order to control for market effect, industry effect, and effects of endogenous variables of a sample firm that lead the...

Purpose – While price studies such as Jawadi et al. generally focus on the relationships between oil and stock markets through the study of oil price on stock markets, this paper takes a different perspective to the linkages between oil and stock markets. This study sets out to investigate the...

</titre> <alinea/> <alinea/> Since the beginning of the 1990?s, the Russian oil industry is characterised by important reforms of this organisational model. Regarding this evolution, the main characteristic is the increasing involvement of national oil companies in the upstream activities. The aim of this article is to...