Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 183
Cover Image
Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233487
Cover Image
Investigating the cultural patterns of corruption: A nonparametric analysis
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
By using a sample of 77 countries our analysis applies several nonparametric techniques in order to reveal the link between national culture and corruption. Based on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the corruption perception index, the results reveal that countries with higher levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220678
Cover Image
Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694217
Cover Image
National culture and multinational performance
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The question of why some multinational corporations perform better than others is in the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate. In that respect this paper provides empirical evidence by combining strategic management theories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534272
Cover Image
The effect of national culture on countries’ innovation efficiency
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper contributes to the link between social and cultural factors with countries innovation performance. By measuring 25 countries’ innovation efficiency with the use of conditional and unconditional DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) frontiers the paper provides empirical evidence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919775
Cover Image
Towards a culture of environmental efficiency: An application of conditional partial nonparametric frontiers
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Due to the fact that norms govern individual behavior, which in turn it is related to the environmental behaviour, this study tries to establish a link between human behavior (in terms of cultural values) and the environment. With the use of robust frontiers this paper constructs countries’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835365
Cover Image
Cultural Constraints In Leading Malaysian SMEs To Global Markets
Hussain, Sayed Mushtaq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economic development of many countries. SMEs are also dominant in the Malaysian economy. Their contribution to the national economy, however, remains modest in terms of value added and exports. During the last 2-3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108753
Cover Image
Corporate disclosure determinants: a cross-country investigation
Farina, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have given rise to a search for mechanisms suitable for protecting investors and regulating growing capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623427
Cover Image
Flexibility, but for whom? : A new approach to examining labour market flexibility across Europe using company level data
Chung, Heejung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The way in which various countries adapt to this need differs according to their institutions and prevailing strategies. Despite the vast numbers of studies addressing this issue,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787183
Cover Image
Do countries matter? Explaining the variation in the use of numerical flexibility arrangements across European companies using a Multi-level model
Chung, Heejung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Do countries matter, especially compared to other aspects that affect the flexibility behaviours of companies? Many studies on the labour market assume that there are country differences, cross-national variances, and that it is a crucial factor in explaining the actual practices of the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836421