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Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic finance and socially responsible investment
Pitluck, Aaron Z. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States … stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic interviews with financial workers in Malaysia, this paper argues that moral … Malaysia is strong because Islamic social movements have reformed the Malaysian stock market’s structure. Specifically, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789952
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An application of statistical interference in DEA models : an analysis of public owned university departments' efficiency
Halkos, George E.; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G.; Kourtzidis, … - 2010
This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model formulations in order to determine the performance levels of 16 departments of the University of Thessaly. Particularly, the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) models have been applied alongside with bootstrap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524091
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Publishing Trends in Economics Across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
Winkler, Anne E. - 2011
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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Socio-professional expectations on master students of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Voinea, Lelia; Stăiculescu, Camelia; Schileru, Ion - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 675-690
The interest of young people for their future socio-professional was always and everywhere a dominant factor and also a notorious motivator factor in their efforts. Studies conducted by entities concerned as well as researchers from various social areas have shown that this interest is also...
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Publication performance vs. influence : on the questionable value of quality weighted publication rankings
Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017
In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759992
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Publication performance vs. influence : on the questionable value of quality weighted publication rankings
Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017
In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781319
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Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung
Lenz, Rainer; Steinhaus, Carol - 2010
Internationalization receives top priority in nearly any university mission statement. But why? What is the value of internationalization for a university? Is the purpose to improve a university’s ranking, or to explore new revenue sources by entering foreign, mostly Asian, educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191438
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Connect 2 Complete : Ongoing Peer Advocacy and Service-Learning at Edmonds Community College
Murphy, Thomas - 2013
Connect 2 Complete (C2C) is a Campus Compact program with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At Edmonds Community College C2C employs community-engaged peer advocacy to foster the success and completion of low-income students who need developmental education courses. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073934
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Bigotry in Academe : Disciplinary Elitism
Friedman, Hershey H. - 2009
In this brief call to action, the authors decry disciplinary elitism. A large number of academics in various disciplines actually believe that their discipline alone has the answer to how the world works. This sort of academic bigotry runs rampant through our myriad ivied and hallowed halls, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160126
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Challenges and Adaptations for Higher Educational Institutes Towards SDGs Goal : A Web Content Analysis of Public-Private Universities in Bangladesh
Farhana, Dr Khandaker Mursheda - 2020
This paper examines adaptation process and position of current higher educational institutions initiatives for quality assessment and competition for twenty first century challenges. Key objective of this study is to examine twenty identified variables which mostly observe recent rapid changes...
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