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Description It is important to recognize that increase in well-being is no longer dependent on further economic growth, but on economic and social well-being, which means that the decline in carbon dioxide emission without reducing real wellbeing and growth. The aim of this study is to...

Description This study aims at assessing two modern leadership styles: transactional leadership and transformational leadership at Syrian universities. It also aims at exploring whether or not there are differences in leadership styles caused by sector or follower demographics. A quantitative...

Description The Sudan currency crisis in 2012 occurred when the Sudanese pound lost 66 percent of its value against the US dollar. In this article we adopt statistical methods such as the signal approach and econometric methods such as the Probit Model for identifying and evaluating the currency...

Description The study examines the relationship between reducing time and international trade. Primarily, through the role of information and communication technology, within the trade facilities, in reducing the time required for import and export, and discussing its impact on economic growth...

Description Crime appears to be strictly related to the level of education attained and to individuals’ economic and social background. The objective of the study examines multiple factors i.e., education, unemployment, poverty and economic growth which contributed to the rate of crimes in...

Description The current study aims at determining the main sources of internal recruitment in mobile telecommunication companies in Jordan and its significant impact on job satisfaction. It also determines the main criteria applied in internal recruitment policies. A total amount of 300...

Description The study aims to identify the reality of the application of social responsibility in Jordanian banks, and its impact on competitive advantage. It also seeks to determine the most important pillars of the Jordanian banks that facilitate the success of social responsibility with a...

Description The objective of this study is to explore the factors that are keys for an idea to be implemented on an online crowdsourcing platform. A data set of 320 implemented ideas from My Starbucks Idea – an online crowdsourcing platform – has been analyzed. We find that only one out of 500...

Description This empirical research paper focuses on establishing a relationship between external determinants and economic growth of Pakistan economy. Empirical analyses are carried out with time series econometric techniques using data over the period of 1977-2013. The main finding is that...

Description This paper reviews prior research on diversified mentoring relationships and formulates predictions regarding African Americans’ access to public accounting mentors. Empirical analysis is based on responses from 116 African- American public accounting employees, compared to 756...

Description Each passing day brings new brands to India each vying for a share of wallet in the prospering market. By 2020, the median age of Indian population will be 29 years and owing to the absolute population of India, the presence in Indian market will be rewarding for the multinationals...

Description The limitations of formal administrative controls in organizations performing complex production tasks have created the need for less obtrusive forms of management control. When formal administrative controls cannot cater to the unpredictability of complex work demands, one strategy...

Description This article addresses not a general theory of social change but a widespread phenomenon in public administration as a field of research: the endless succession of budgetary reforms in the public sector means that institutional change is of constitutive and strategic importance. How...

Description Tests of significance are regarded as essential for the establishment of facts. This paper questions this, and an alternative approach is presented which centres on replication. Replication provides the crucial test of the reliability and validity of facts, hypotheses and theories...

Description This paper demonstrates the profound political consequences accounting can have by examining the emergence of Planning, Programming and Budgeting (PPB) in the United States as an ostensibly value-free tool for allocating defense resources during the 1960s. The research shows how...

Description A 3@month longitudinal study of organizational ideology in two merging public accounting firms and one control firm (not involved in a merger) was undertaken using qualitative and quantitative methods. The study found support for a four-phase model of the merger process, initially...

Description Globalization of businesses raises major questions about the regulation of corporations, both in the national and international context. The debate is marked by two competing views. The ‘hyperglobalists’ claim that in a globalized world, nation-states cannot take effective actions to...

Description In American politics, at least, it is welI known that government bureaucrats and middle managers are paid high salaries to shuffle papers. But we learn from the business pages that public administrators and business executives process information, the life blood of the postlndustrial...

Description Abstract We test the relation between financial and social disclosure and the cost of equity capital for a sample of Canadian firms with year-ends in 1990, 1991 and 1992. We find that, consistent with prior research, the quantity and quality of financial disclosure is negatively...

Description In contrast to previous e xamlnations, this paper considers the ways in which accounting was deployed in and altered by the savings and loan crisis. Several theoretical concepts (accounting as an element of governmental&y and discipline produced within a particular regulatory space)...