“The Principles of Scientific Management” by Frederick Taylor is among the first attempts to set up a coherent set of principles and rules in the practice of management. While Taylor seems to have gone too far by claiming that the status of his statements is scientific, we argue that he made...

Provides an overview of the situation of women micro and small entrepreneurs against a back drop of the four countries' economic conditions and the gender based socio-cultural, legal and political systems in place in these countries.

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...

The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the service from the market. To assure the practice of...

In recent years, several randomized controlled experiments as well as experiments that are not randomized have been conducted to assess the impacts of management training intervention on the productivity and other aspects of business performance of firms. Yet the role played by management...