Globalization, which has become a critical activity for many contemporary enterprises, is achieved primarily through collaboration and alliance with firms in different countries. In this respect, the government can play a vital role by providing an adequate infrastructure and competitive...

This paper, based theoretically on the resource-based view of the firm, investigates the extent to which training contributes to the firm’s innovation and explores a relationship between the integration of training in the firm’s business strategies and the extent to which training...

This study examines how unemployment rate dynamically responds to shocks to consumer confidence, business confidence, inflation and monetary policy. Based on the vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis of the monthly data from 1978:M2 to 2012:M5, the results show that unemployment negatively...

This paper, using the resource-based view of the firm as the theoretical background, is to determine whether the integration of training in the firm's business strategies increases the impact of training on the firm's competitiveness. A regression analysis of the data obtained from a survey of...

The purpose of the current study is to explore various factors influencing managerial decision between cost reduction and product differentiation. A multiple logistic regression model is constructed to determine the likelihood of managerial tendency toward cost reduction or product...

The purpose of the present study is to provide further empirical evidence of the January and size effects on stock returns. The data used in this study are monthly stock returns, shares outstanding, and prices of all the stocks listed on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. The data of monthly stock...

Using the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis, this study empirically documents the impulse response functions of financial stress and market risk premiums and performs a causality test of these two variables. The analysis of the monthly changes of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis...

This study employs the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis to empirically report the impulse response functions of economic policy certainty and financial stress. A causality test of these two variables is also performed. The analysis of the monthly changes in the economic policy uncertainty...

This study examines if firms whose training programs ranked as the best ones in the United States can withstand the changes in economic policy uncertainty. The regression analysis of monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty index, monthly returns on the CRSP value-weighted index, and...

This paper examines if stock markets in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) respond to the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States. Based on the analysis of monthly returns on the stock market indices in Bangladesh from 1990:1 to 2009:4, India and...