This paper examines the industrial innovation landscape of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) presenting results from its first innovation survey (2008). Analysing data collected from 304 industrial firms, this paper confirms that only 14% of the surveyed firms possessed an in-house...

The objective of this study is to test the Hall’s permanent income hypothesis for Pakistan using annual data from 1992 to 2010. The basic model of permanent income hypothesis (PIH) showed the validity of absolute income hypothesis (AIH) while the Campbell and Mankiw (1990) consumption model...

The paper analyzes the threshold effect of technology innovation on renewable energy in the G10 countries through the panel threshold method. The outcome shows that technology innovation has a low impact on renewable energy when technology innovation is below the threshold value. However,...

Composite services are regarded as essential components of a cloud-based manufacturing (CM) system. Different classes of disruptive events which are rooted in the uncertainties of the supply and demand sides of CM threaten the resilience and continuity of the composite services over time. The...

Background: Given the importance of customers as the most valuable assets of organizations, customer retention seems to be an essential, basic requirement for any organization. Banks are no exception to this rule. The competitive atmosphere within which electronic banking services are provided...