Basel II regulations are closely related with SMEs which have credit relationship with the banks. With Basel II, there will be a risk oriented approach in the crediting process of the banks and this approach will affect interest rate, amount, type, maturity and financial collateral of the...

The literature on industrial and regional economics is full of cases studies of local productive agglomerations. A significant part of the empirical studies on this subject have concentrated on the analysis of existing productive agglomerations. In contrast, there are few studies that attempt...

Firms’ compliance decisions are expected to be strongly influenced by the expected fine for non-compliance with environmental regulations. In this paper we measure the effect of the probability of inspection and the size of the fine – jointly and separately – on the compliance decisions...

HRD is an important topic of present time. It is considered by management professionals, as sub discipline of HRM, but many researchers have, broadened the scope and integrated the concept of HRD by looking it from socioeconomic angle and giving it other dimension such as physical, intellectual,...

This research paper is a comparison between Pakistan Textile Industry and its neighboring countries in the very sector. This justifies Pakistans current place with her neighbors in Textile Industry particularly after lifting of trade restrictions from WTO and MFA. This study will help in...

During the last years competition in the textile sector has increased, putting financial returns under considerable pressure. As a result, production has shifted to low wage countries in the third world. This has raised the relevance of ethical procedures. This paper analyses how C&A as one of...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how the relationships among the different actors within the business networks affect the evolution of innovation along the different steps of technology life cycle. Design/methodology/approach – The study is supported by a longitudinal case study...

Purpose A growing number of studies indicate that the export growth of China’s textiles poses serious threats to many developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to empirically measure the extent to which the export growth of Chinese textiles has come at the expense of Egyptian textiles...

This paper analyses strategic and operational e-commerce adoption of companies in financial services and textile manufacturing sectors in Turkey at theoretical and empirical levels. Data was collected from 110 firms. Results support the propositions of tested theories (resource-based view and...