The paper focuses on applying Resource-based view (RBV) of organization to achieve competitive advantage and enhancing the success of software development project. Software development projects are known for being completed far over budget and behind schedule. The high investment of information...

Job satisfaction of academic staff in Higher Education Institute (HEI) is important because it influences their motivation and performance that are so very influential in delivering quality education services. This research aims to explore the factors that affect job satisfaction of academic...

The purpose of this study is time perspective for assembly type manufacturing industry to affect the competitive conditions, which are the constraints of time and a distributed work activity, for every business involved in the value chain. The Internet as a communication media became the...

Access to education and training, and the quality of education, learning and knowledge have an effect on the competitiveness of a society and its economic growth. Therefore, creating the conditions for a knowledge-based economy and society are now commonly considered as goals to be achieved, the...

This paper analyses Regional Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Thailand which is to identify using a panel dataset for 76 provinces over the period 1985-2012. The work is considered to develop a partial stock adjustment model which shows that there are some variations existing in the...

The main objective of the research is to find, identify and explain main trends and factors of convergence or divergence between economies and to discuss its conseguences for global inequality and possible future inequality trends. On a dataset of HDP per capita in a group of 150 countries over...

This study discusses the influence of a series of bank-specific factors such as CAR (Capital Adequacy Ratio), OEOI (Operations Expences to Operations Income), NPL (Non Performing Loan), and FBI (Fee-based Income) on ROA as a profitability proxy. Also studied whether commercial banks probability...

Southeast Asia is a growing region in terms of its economic activities characterized by its high economic growth, integration toward global economy and high capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Asian financial crisis in 1997 has disturbed the achievement of some newly industrialized countries...

The market for shipping goods across oceans is particular when it comes to spot shipping rates and its derivatives compared to other asset classes. First, since the underlying of shipping rates is a service, not an asset or commodity, rates cannot be short sold, which leads to an inefficient...

Predicting a future observation on the basis of the existing observations is a problem of compelling practical interest in many fields of study including economics and sociology. Bayesian predictive densities, obtained via a prior specification on the underlying population, are commonly used for...