In today’s knowledge economy, it is vital for Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) to leverage all their globally dispersed knowledge resources. Extant literature argues that MNCs can be viewed as knowledge sharing networks and that knowledge exchange within the group enhances performance. This exploration of new knowledge through search among peer subsidiaries of the parent MNC can be regarded a...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Personality profiles may affect the impact of dental treatment on daily living and patient satisfaction. PURPOSE The purpose of this clinical trial was to evaluate the impact of maxillary anterior fixed prosthodontic rehabilitation on daily living and the satisfaction of patients and to investigate its relationship with personality profiles. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-n...

In this study, we analyze the environmental efficiency performance and its determinants of 29 manufacturing industries in China from 2006 to 2011 by employing a two-stage DEA (data envelopment analysis)-Tobit model. For providing comparative and robust evidence, the 29 manufacturing industries are classified into three groups based on the pollution intensity. In the first stage, a SBM (slacks-b...

â â â â â  â â â  abstract â  beijing’s industrial structure is service-oriented with a high degree of economic openness, and gdp has maintained rapid growth. this paper analyzes the international financial crisis and the impact of china’s anti-crisis policies on beijing’s economic development as well as its transmission mechanism. impact index (excluding seasonal factors) and arma model ...

this paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual property and patent and economic growth in islamic countries for the period of 1990 – 2010. this theoretical basis of the model is constructed on economic growth models in 1990s. the technique which we employed is the index of patents to measure the impact on economic growth. to analysis this relationship we use “pedroni cointegrati...

Limited empirical work has been done to the diverging current account balances of the individual emerging Asian economies. Based on the intertemporal approach to current account, this paper empirically examines both the long-run and short-run impacts of initial stock of net foreign assets, degree of openness to international trade, real exchange rate and relative income on current account balan...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the relationships between the openness degree of companies and their 1) context features, 2) R&D organization and 3) financial performances. The openness degree is defined after a pecuniary approach, involving all the transactions in the innovation market. Hypotheses are formulated and, then, tested on a sample of 126 world top R&D spending bio-pharmaceutical ...

Globalization as a concept surpasses mere openness to symbiotic economic relationship. refers the level of and positive attitude towards products, values ideologies other people cultures. The study reviews existing literature on impact globalization work ethics across globe tries observe possible trends convergence among several countries. Most reviewed studies revealed significant ethics. more...

Small businesses face multiple constraints on innovating that open innovation (OI) has potential to help overcome. The aim of this study is examine the association between business group affiliation and extent OI engaged in by SMEs. Unlike independent SMEs, those have affiliations might benefit from internal also external networks initiate partnerships innovate. We analysed data collected 711 F...

Both sexual selection and natural selection can influence the form of dimorphism in secondary sexual traits. Here, we used a comparative approach to examine the relative roles of sexual selection and natural selection in the evolution of sexually dimorphic coloration (dichromatism) and ornamentation in agamid lizards. Sexual dimorphism in head and body size were used as indirect indicators of s...