This contribution analyses under what conditions expert input is most likely to be regarded by government representatives as useful and how government representatives use input provided by experts. It widens the analytical lens examining multilateral negotiations within the United Nations...

Some research questions involve several dimensions. The most rewarding approach may be switching (under control) between the diverse methods and databases involved. Having recourse to different dimensions that form a system produces wider results but also opens up new questions. A survey on the...

Emerging cyber-collective social movements (CSMs) have frequently made headlines in the news. Despite their popularity, there is a lack of systematic methodologies to empirically study such movements in complex online environments. Using the Al-Huwaider online campaign as a case to illustrate...

The purpose of this paper is to find out the amount of children influence on family purchase decisions. It considers product types as being the influencing agents that enhance children’ s influence to family purchase decisions. The paper acknowledges children as being consumers in their own...

Correspondence analysis, when used to visualize relationships in a table of counts (for example, abundance data in ecology), has been frequently criticized as being too sensitive to objects (for example, species) that occur with very low frequency or in very few samples. In this statistical...

The article offers scientific solution of the problem of ranking Ukrainian regions by the criterion of volume of investment into innovation development of the TRC. It develops a relevant method of calculation of an integral indicator with consideration of consistency of influence of basic...

Many parents have not succeeded in using the mere fact that they are entrepreneurs to influence their children to also become entrepreneurs. This has been one of the reasons why many private businesses have collapsed. Since other researchers have concentrated on factors about the prospective...

In this paper, the research focuses on the evolution of the GDP in recent years. The data are collected from official sources, mainly the publications of the National Institute of Statistics. The research also emphasizes the role of resources and utilizations as factors that determine the...

The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics...