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The Negative Effect of Brand Attachment: How Attachment Styles Help Explain Anti-Brand Behavior
(Scientific Research, 2017-01)Enterprises tend to attach importance to consumer brand relationship in the marketing context, especially the establishment and culture of attachment relationship, and they try to maintain brand loyalty through consumers’ ... -
A New Attribute Decision Making Model Based on Attribute Importance
(Scientific Research, 2013-11)In the light of universality of uncertainty, we propose a decision making model in completed information system. Considering the attribute reduction, attribute importance and mismatched information, a multiple attribute ... -
A New Framework for Online Business Teaching
(Scientific Research, 2018-07)Recently, business education has experienced an expansion of online education programs. In this paper, we propose a framework to improve the effectiveness of student learning in an online lecture format. In particular, ... -
Non-Linear Effect of Remittances on Banking Sector Development: Panel Evidence from Developing Countries
(Scientific Research, 2016-10)This paper examines the impact of remittances on financial sector development in a panel of 19 developing countries. Contrary to previous studies that focus on mean effects, it uses quantile regression methodology to ... -
Non-Neutral Technological Progress and Income Distribution—Piketty’s Fundamental Laws in a Neoclassical Two-Sector Model
(Scientific Research, 2016-12)This paper discusses the theoretical validity of Thomas Piketty’s fundamental laws about income distribution in the context of a standard neoclassical growth model. We take Uzawa’s two-sector growth model as the platform ... -
Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design
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Oil a Blessing or Curse: A Comparative Assessment of Nigeria, Norway and the United Arab Emirates
(2018-04)Oil booms have brought unprecedented wealth and development to some countries while in others this has not been the case. The latter is attributed to the resource curse phenomenon which has been explained by the Dutch ... -
On the Economic Premium Principle
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)In this study, we propose an equilibrium pricing rule to capture a characteristic observed in the practical option market. The market has observed that the implied volatility derived from the Black-Scholes formula is ... -
On Volatility Transmission from Crude Oil to Agricultural Commodities
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)The paper examines volatility transmission from crude oil market to agricultural commodities like wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans. We find that the volatility transmission from crude oil to agricultural commodities ... -
Performance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria and Benin (1990-2009)
(OMICS Group, 2015-11)The study evaluated the performance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria and Benin (1990- 2009). The main analytical apparatus used to answer the research questions, achieve the research objectives and ... -
Piketty’s Inequality between the Profit and Growth Rates and Its Implications for the Reproduction of Economic Elites
(Scientific Research, 2016-12)This paper studies, within a growth model, some effects of the inequality between the profit and growth rates on the reproduction of economic elites. To this end, it considers as functions of the capital/income ratio the ... -
Predicting the Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students: Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Zambia, Africa
(Scientific Research, 2017-10)The current paper contributes to the entrepreneurial intention (EI) literature by applying the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in a developing African country with unique socio-economic and cultural context. Thus it ... -
Producers’ Preference for Price Instability?
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)The debate over whether producers prefer price instability to price stability continues, especially where policies are often endorsed that aim at generating stability. Such policies include the holding of agriculture ... -
Public Expenditures, Private Investment and Economic Growth in Togo
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)This paper assesses firstly the impact of the level and the composition of public expenditures on growth and secondly the link between public investment and private investment in Togo. For this purpose, a neoclassical ... -
The Rationality and Irrationality of Financing Green Start-Ups
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2015-07)Green start-ups contribute towards a transition to a more sustainable economy by developing sustainable and environmentally friendly innovation and bringing it to the market. Due to specific product/service characteristics, ... -
Regression Analyses of Income Inequality Indices
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)Scientists have analysed different methods for numerical estimation of Gini coefficients. Using Lorenz curves, various numerical integration attempts have been made to identify accurate estimates. Central alternative ... -
Relationship between Spot and Future Prices of Crude Oil: A Cointegration Analysis
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The study was intended to reveal the relationship among the spot and future price of crude oil, which in turn will help in determining the prices of crude oil. While structuring a portfolio, high correlation among assets ... -
Research on the Method of Capitalization of Entertainment Products in GDP Statistics
(Scientific Research, 2016-06)It is one of directions of the reform about China’s national economic statistics system to incorporate the intellectual property products into the GDP statistics, and the capital of intellectual property products is the ... -
Resistance to Change- A New Perspective: A Textbook for Managers Who Plan to Implement a Change
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Revenue and Knowledge Cooperation Mechanisms between Business Incubators and Venture Capitalists for Collaborative Start-Ups
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)Business incubators and venture capital are effective instruments for supporting the development of new firms. The purpose of this paper is to explore cooperation mechanisms between business incubators and venture ...