One of the major contributions of the IMP approach to international marketing has been the concept of interaction. Often concepts that in international marketing are treated as discrete, are in fact interrelated if the notion of interaction is taken into account. This will be illustrated in the...

In 1987 Lopes developed Security/Potential, Aspiration (SP/A) Theory, a framework for risky choice under uncertainty. Similar to Prospect Theory, SP/A Theory seeks to combine the forces of Economics and Psychology. This means that the assumption that individuals make choices based on expected...

In this paper we investigate how Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI) responds to changing macroeconomic and institutional conditions. FSls are aggregate measures of the current financial health and soundness of financial institutions in a country including corporate and household...

An integrated continuous improvement (CI) strategy is asserted to comprise an essential element of the struggle for many firms to maintain international competitive advantage (Bessant and Caffyn, 1997 and Chapman et al 2002). Development and maintenance of an integrated CI strategy is enhanced...

New products are unquestionably imperative for business sustainability and success. Firms need to maintain their competitive advantage, and a major determinant of sustaining competitive advantage is the ability of the firm to develop and launch successful new products. There are highly volatile...

There is an increasing need for greater collaboration between academe and industry partners. To attract research funds, academics often market the potential value of empirical research to the private sector and form partnerships While the outcomes of these partnerships have potential value for...

Business process integration and automation have gained popularity among business community, in the recent past. This increased popularity can be seen as a result of the widespread use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as part of maximizing the benefits of Business Process...

This paper provides an overview of the current debate on the effects of public infrastructure on productivity. The early aggregate studies based on restrictive functional forms of production functions provide controversial estimates of the impact of public infrastructure on economic growth and...

Rescaled range analysis has regained popularity in the recent econophysics literature as a means of identifying long-term dependence in time-series data. Conclusions derived from the rescaled adjusted range statistic are conditional however upon the choice of an appropriate benchmark against...

Recent years have seen increased attention given to the real estate investment opportunities available from the non-traditional real estate sectors such as self-storage, healthcare, and other specialty real estate sectors. In particular, these non-traditional real estate sectors in equity REITs...