Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...

This research investigates the role of social capital and government intervention in explaining the differences of innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective...

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002,...

During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as research, user, external and production ingredients of...

The present study examined the relationship between kenyan cultural officers occupational engagement and demographic traits.....

The purpose of this study was to investigate commercial high school students? conceptual structures of accounting. Data was collected from 132 students using a free word association test in Turkey...

Indian textile enjoys a rich heritage and the origin of textiles in India traces back to the Indus valley Civilization where people used homespun cotton for weaving their clothes. If we talk about the Indian Textiles Industry....

The purpose of this study is to analyze to efficiency and performance of Islamic Bank as compare to two types of conventional banks i.e public and private sector banks......

Nonverbal Communication plays an important role in communicating varied meanings as cues to the receiver. It is the basic and primitive form of conveying information from......