In traditional approach, company performance is related to Top Management Team (TMT) group characteristics, such as board size and composition, board tenure, age, experience, education, and competences. Initially, TMT characteristics were considered to have crucial significance for group...

How do I make my voice heard? The University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland covers an area the size of Belgium, with a population the size of Brussels. The 13 partner colleges and over 50 local learning centres operate in some of the most remote areas of Western Europe. There are...

The aim of this paper is to report on an ongoing study designed to use a Quality Teaching Framework (NSW, 2003) as a standard framework for teachers in order to examine the gap between mathematics teachers’ practices in Saudi mathematics classrooms and the framework. QT framework identifies...

My paper analyzes Canadian involvement in the war on Libya in 2011. My point of departure is the question: why was Canada involved in the bombing of Libya? I quickly recognize that it is facile to argue that Canada bombed Libya simply because it is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty...

Since its inception in 1923, Turkey’s foreign policy has been characterised by a number of divergent orientations. Western orientation however, especially following the Second World War, has been a primary foreign policy priority for Turkey. Particularly, European Union (then EEC) membership...

The Saudi stock market is analyzed, using rescaled range analysis to estimate the fractal dimension of price returns and to test the Efficient Market Hypothesis. In order to determine the predictability of a time series, Hurst Exponent for each time series is measured and we find that Saudi...

Despite macro-level advances in ASEAN regional cooperation, on the ground anti-Vietnamese xenophobia remains an unsavory reality in contemporary Cambodia. During the 2013 national elections the newly constituted Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), a merger of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and...

Both at firm and national level, particularly in the most developed economies, the increasing importance of knowledge have meant that the net stock of intangible asset has grown more rapidly than the tangible asset. This has unfortunately not yet happened in the developing economies (Mortensen...

As a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States have introduced the policy of targeted killings – targeting individual suspect terrorists and killing them, most often using the unmanned drones operated by the CIA. Likewise, Israel has begun with the same practice, responding...

Because of rapid population ageing Lithuania possesses new economic and social challenges. One of these challenges is the shortage of labour force in the future, which will have a negative impact on the country’s economy. Thus, in this paper the study on impact of one of the significant...