International competitiveness is a main source of economic advancement which results in higher standards of living. This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness as it defines international competitiveness and discusses two common conceptions that are required to achieve...

Article about the features of investment in human capital. Explore different areas of investment in human capital, and also addresses the problems associated with investing in human capital and ways to solve them. The author proves the thesis futile investment in human capital and labor without...

Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by using unique longitudinal data begun during...

В статье рассматривается возможность смены нынешнего глобального лидера мировой экономики США. Для этого вводится понятие геополитической инверсии, под...

Das Handelsblatt-Ranking BWL erschien 2012 zum zweiten Mal und wurde von über 300 Wissenschaftlern boykottiert. Nach Vorstellung des Rankings und der wichtigsten Argumente für den Boykott werden wesentliche Diskussionsbeiträge zu dem Ranking und Boykott präsentiert und kommentiert. Dabei...

Rankings finden als Methode zur Messung und zum Vergleich wissenschaftlicher Forschungsleistungen in der deutschsprachigen BWL vielfältige Beachtung, stoßen aber auch auf Kritik. Auf der Basis des wissenschaftlichen Gesamtwerks aller Mitglieder des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für...

Our study aims to analyse whether former feelings of happiness and/or physical appearance have influence on the subsequent observable research performance of scholars. Therefore we photographed 49 persons attending the 72nd annual conference of the German Academic Association for Business...

The discussion about the impact of physical attractiveness on popularity of competitive athletes has received much attention from scholars as well as from media around the world. We provide new insights to this debate by estimating correlation-coefficients and regression-models to test whether...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting information technology usage behavior of tax office employees in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. To accomplish this purpose, the data is gathered from 133 tax office employees who work in Black Sea Region of Turkey through a...