Drawn are views for the conditioning between the national and firm culture in theoretical aspect and based on concrete studies for Bulgaria. Firm culture in its quality of certain management mechanism is identified and analyzed as a subject in the frames of the economic anthropology. Based on...

The article studies the pattern of changes within the organization in view of the adaptation potential of the individual in the group and deals with methods and approaches of aligning the behaviour of the individual and the group. The relationship „potential – aims of the change –...

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

Bu çalışmada, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ın ‘Uzak’ adlı filmi üzerinden taşra ile kent arasındaki gerilimli ilişki sosyolojik bir bakış açısı ile ele alınmaya çalışılmıştır. Kapitalist modernleşme ile birlikte ortaya çıkan kentli bireyin kurmuş olduğu korunaklı...

What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released datasets. We then provide a mostly informal...

This article reviews existing research at the intersection of genetics and economics, presents some new findings that illustrate the state of genoeconomics research, and surveys the prospects of this emerging field. Twin studies suggest that economic outcomes and preferences, once corrected for...

This paper quantitatively evaluates nation stability, defined as the state of a country's social and economic system as measured by multiple evaluation indicators, and observes its transitions. Data Envelopment Analysis/Malmquist Index (DEA/MI) methodology is applied to the panel data for 97...

The occurrence of scientific fraud damages the credibility of science. An instrument to discover deceit was proposed with Benford’s law, a distribution which describes the probability of significant digits in many empirical observations. If Benford-distributed digits are expected and empirical...

Este artículo presenta algunas de las características más relevantes de la economía del deporte, que la signifi¬can como una economía peculiar dentro del análisis económico. Se analizan las características del producto deportivo, el estu¬dio del comportamiento de los clubes, de las...

Narratives simplify conceptual thinking about complex phenomena by providing interpretations and backgrounds based on standard linguistic schemes. As such, they offer an apt form for suggestive evocation of the many controversies on the impact of technology and science on world agriculture....