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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China
Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004
Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437491
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Oil Exploration in Colonial Nigeria, c. 1903-58
Steyn, Phia - 2009
namely that oil exploration dates back to 1908 when the German oil company, the Nigeria Bitumen Corporation started … Nigeria Bitumen was indeed a British oil company with a listing on the West African Market of the stock exchange in London …. Consequently, over time, the exploration of the oil possibilities of colonial Nigeria became the domain of large, integrated oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465906
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Justifying Public Decisions in Arctic Oil and Gas Development: American and Russian Approaches
Flanders, Nicholas E; Brown, Rex V.; Larichev, Oleg - 1998
"Government resource decisions in the Arctic typically involve complex issues; multiple criteria are used to choose among alternatives. This complexity is even greater with petroleum development because of concerns about national energy security, environmental impacts, and economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468363
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Analysis of Acquirer Stock Performance in Mergers and Acquisitions in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry
Zivot, Harrison A - 2010
This paper develops a framework that analyzes how mergers and acquisitions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry affect stock prices. In this experiment, a multivariate regression is applied to several industry-specific variables to determine if they have impacts on the abnormal stock returns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468725
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Biofuels production in Mexico a complex problem
González-Aguirre, Rosa Luz; Quintero-Ramírez, Rodolfo - 2008
In Mexico the possibility of producing biofuels has generated a wide range of political, economical and technical comments and opinions. This is due mainly to the fact that the oil industry has contributed heavily to the direct financing of the Mexican government for the last 70 years, in 2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475859
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Dealing with plenty: Brazil in the era of surplus oil
de Oliveira, Renato L. - 2011
This is a study about the growth of oil industry and its economic and political repercussions in Brazil. It combines an industrial analysis with an empirical assessment of the impact of oil royalties on municipal fiscal transparency in Brazil.This paper begins with an overview of the future of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477692
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Political economy of oil production from 1850s to 1974
Perlich, Harry - 2000
A study of the oil industry in its modern development from the 1850s to 1973. During this period the industry underwent significant changes in terms of its productive expansion, the diversity of its products, its role in general production, its corporate organisation and in terms of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480122
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Managing the subsidiary within the rules of the head office : a case for the oil industry in the SADC Region
Nyangintsimbi, Sikhuthali - 2011
Most international oil companies have historically used South Africa as their regional headquarters from which to drive their strategies within the South African Developing Community (SADC) region. The SADC based companies or subsidiaries view South Africa as a head office of the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457728
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A macroeconometric model of Saudi Arabia for economic stabilisation and forecasting
Al-Teraiki, Ahmed B.M. - 1999
The purpose of this study is to construct a macroeconometric model for theSaudi Arabian economy in order to assess the effects of external shocks through suchvariables as the price of (oil) exports, real (oil) exports, and the price of imports. Thismodel follows the methodology of the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461260
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The evolution of the legal and contractual framework for the exploration and production of oil in Sudan and the United Kingdom: a comparative approach to developing and developed c...
Fawzi, Howayda Hassan - 1996
The main purpose of this work is to examine the role of legal and contractual terms, and domestic policies in attracting and dealing with oil investment in both developing and developed countries. Sudan and the UK are used as case studies, since both countries discovered oil in the early 1970s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463505