Im Verlauf der letzten 80 Jahre schrumpfte der Handwerkssektor. Der Anteil der Handwerker an allen Erwerbstätigen sank von ca. 17 % (1934) auf ca. 12 % (2016). In dieser Kurzstudie wird gefragt, ob technologische Veränderungen die Abgrenzung zwischen dem Handwerks- (HWK) und Industrie- und...

A growing number of announcements on new and innovative medical devices are reported each year by economic actors. However, very few new technologies are successfully acquired and adopted by healthcare actors. To examine how economic and healthcare system actors perceive entrepreneurs'...

This study goes beyond firm-specific characteristics to assess the role of multi-layer monitoring mechanisms on narrative disclosure in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. By using a neo-institutional perspective and analyzing data from 154 non-financial firms between 2015 and 2018,...

This research aims to investigate how institutional pressures, such as legal, cultural, and normative factors, affect CSR reporting (CSRR) in the context of a developing nation. Based on the purposive sample method, 272 DSE-listed companies from 2017-18 to 2020-21 were identified, and 1088...

International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) face greater accountability demands from various stakeholders, and from their beneficiaries in particular. This has initiated an academic discourse on a more comprehensive approach to INGO accountability. However, the theoretical foundation to...

Aligning the Romanian university education to the Bologna Treaty requirements generated the establishment of the professional skills that have to be obtained by students through business education. To enhance the skills to be acquired by a student along his preparation, the curriculum of the...

Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the country's productive development policies (PDP) is in a state of transition from state-directed industrial policy to a newer approach with extensive private-public participation....

Empirical studies outline developing countries' experience economic growth through an undervalued exchange rate and that exchange rate overvaluations have negative long term effects on economic growth. This paper examined the impact of exchange rate movements as well as exchange rate...

We put forward the novel concept of energy contagion, i.e. a deepening of energy-finance linkages under crisis periods in energy markets, and test for this using standard correlation measures and recently proposed adjusted correlation, co-skewness, and co-volatility contagion tests. Our analysis...

The motivation for this study hinges around the fact that Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is suffering from the Dutch disease which inadvertently hinders the growth of non-energy exports. This paper examines measures that can be adopted for a small petroleum-exporting economy to dampen the effect of...