Universities are higher education institutions whose mission is to generate and transmit knowledge to the society through their research and teaching activities. An important question facing universities today is how they can evolve into institutions where excellence is not only focused on...

Integrating perspectives from a variety of human resources and organizational behaviour programs, a wide array of contributing professors, consultants and governmental personnel successfully link scientific information to practical application

It is the central thesis of this paper that imperialism retarded the development of human resources in lagging countries during the century ending in the 1950s. This result is established both theoretically and empirically. Controlling for other factors that might affect stocks of human capital...