This paper describes and analyzes outcomes of the first World Values Survey for Malaysia, an upper-middle income country that was not yet included in the four previous Surveys. I look at results for tolerance, interest in democracy and other survey questions, and find that the Malaysian Chinese...

This paper presents the results of a survey done among organisations participating in MSC Flagship networks in Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project - a cluster-oriented initiative by the government of Malaysia aimed at jumpstarting its transition to a knowledge-based economy. The...

This paper proposes a mathematical model for an optimal hostages rescue problem. When more than one person is taken hostage at a given time, a decision as to whether or not to attempt a rescue has to be made. The objective is to minimize the probability of a given number or more hostages being...

This paper examines the direct and indirect effects of financial intermediary development on output fluctuations based on the theoretical works by Bacchetta and Caminal (2000) and Beck, Lundberg and Majnoni (2006). According to credit market imperfections, well-developed financial intermediaries...

This study highlights the importance of choice of exchange rate system to macroeconomic stability of small- open countries based on the outcomes of the recent exchange rate regime switches of three small Asian countries during the post Asian financial crisis period. The three selected countries...

The advent of Internet broking pages now allows borrowers to "apply" to a number of different companies at one time. This allows a customer to have multiple offers of a particular personal financial product and to choose one that best fits his current needs. The saturated condition of the...

This paper describes the main features of a system of open corporate accountability to active working and middle class investors supported by a relatively efficient capital market operating in late nineteenth century Lancashire. The economic causes and social consequences of the collapse of this...

This paper examines the independence of outside directors in large UK corporations. It also establishes firms (1750 directors) from 28 sectors. The findings have strong implications for the operationalisation and measurement of board composition and structure in empirical work. The study (by...

This paper analyzes how the preferred self-conceptions of men in an elite military unit - the British Parachute Regiment - were disciplined by the organizationally-based discursive resources on which they drew. The research contribution this paper makes is twofold. First, we argue that desired...