The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the old powers. This report explores how deep the change...

European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates whether this is caused by weak dynamic market selection. The time pattern of scale-related inefficiencies is used as an indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We...

This study investigates determinants of banks’ profitability in Pakistan by using the panel data of 18 banks from the period of 2001 to 2010. Pedroni panel cointegration results confirm that there exists valid long run relationship between considered variables. Results of random effects model...

Este trabajo estudia distintos tipos de antecedentes del destino como el compromiso del turista en relación con el lugar, la confianza y satisfacción, señales como la reputación, la relación calidad-precio y la publicidad y el efecto boca-oreja para explicar las intenciones de repetir y la...

This paper empirically analyses the impact of the bundling of four common home communication services with a single supplier on the probability that an individual changes supplier using a survey-elicited dataset of 2,871 individuals. Implementing a random effects probit approach to control for...

We try to establish which is the structure that best defines the venezuelan foreign exchange market. Asking ourselves whether there exist a group of agents able to exert market power. We assume that the flow of currency between banks follows a first order stochastic Markov process of first...

Examining the occupational variation within non-standard employment, this book combines case studies and comparative writing to illustrate how and why alternative occupational employment patterns are formed. Through expert contributions, a framework is developed integrating explanations based on...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the main determinants of international tourism demand with special reference to Tunisia over the period 1994–2012. The empirical study is based on estimations of GMM dynamic panel data model. Using a sample of 47 generating countries,...

Politics marketing in recent years has attracted increasing attention from politicians all over the world, though not much from academia. Politics is about power and the distribution of scarce resources has created more politics marketing. For a third world economy like, Nigeria the challenges...