Australia has moved rapidly from a centralised Award based wage determination system to decentralised enterprise bargaining. This move has been associated with a substantial drop in strike activity. The relationship between working days lost and a series of macroeconomic variables is tested for...

This is a conceptual paper of the new discipline of Social Entrepreneurship. The author looks at the transition from the discipline of Entrepreneurship to the new emerging field of Social Entrepreneurship. The author presents insights from researches in the field of social entrepreneurship as...

Innovation and entrepreneurship is the source of hope for the future. The future generations of entrepreneurs have to understand the principles of entrepreneurship. This is a paper, where the author looks at the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in India. The problems and the possible...

Innovation and entrepreneurship is the source of hope for the future. The future generations of entrepreneurs have to understand the principles of entrepreneurship. The road to entrepreneurship may start with MVP or minimum viable product. A minimum viable product is a bare minimum product to be...

The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is which economic subjects are the sources of radical innovations and high technological performances. The study here confronts this problem by developing a theoretical framework underpinned in the concept of purposeful system...

Frame and Carpenter 1979 analysed the pattern of international research collaboration among scientific fields in 1970s. Starting from this pioneering work, this paper investigates international collaborations over 1997-2012 and compares the critical results with earlier studies to detect the...

In February 2013, the University of Chicago's Initiative on Global Markets surveyed some three dozen economists from top American universities about the possibility of increasing the U.S. minimum wage. Only four, or 11%, said that such an increase would be undesirable. This figure is out of line...

What explains the persistence of the gender gap? The World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index documents the persistence of the gender gap and, more surprising yet, the data validates that in the last decade the gender gap has grown wider. Why? We provide here a rational market explanation of the...

Beginning in 1912, a number of states passed minimum wage legislation that applied exclusively to women and minors. These tentative experiments in economic legislation ended in 1923 when the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's minimum wage law. Remarkably, at this time virtually...