The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

Developing effective selection programs for improving the performance of livestock requires taking the economical selection indices into account. The present study was performed for comparing four selection indices developed in Kermani sheep through simulated data. The relative importance of traits was determined based on the estimated economic values and consequently, the most beneficial trait...

access to development and life quality improvement are ideals that all the time has involved human’s mind. nowadays development phenomenon besides economic programs contains cultural and social subject. one of the important subjects in development part is women's issues. in these days, even though trend to women's issues in new approaches of development has increased, but in many coun...

this article aims to conduct a comparative cross-cultural study of the educational status of women in terms of different aspects of human and gender development, and its relationship with the health, economic, and political indices. the research covers countries with different degrees of development in educational indices. the study makes use of quantitative methodological approach, and seconda...

A large literature has focused on estimating the returns to schooling and has typically done so by incorporating institutional heterogeneity in quality along merely one dimension (such as average SAT scores). Using longitudinal survey data of registrants for the GMAT exam and school level information from other sources, we create, in the context of graduate management education, multiple indice...

We incorporate managerial e¤orts inside …rms in a standard monopolistic competition model a la Krugman(1980) with heterogenous …rms. The manager works to increase probability of productivity improvement for the …rm. Due to unobservable managerial e¤ort and limited liability, the optimal managerial compensation scheme links the market performance of the …rm to managerial incentives. Managers in ...

We propose a novel approach to evaluating the empirical importance of individual managerial characteristics: We analyze different managerial positions (CEO and CFO) jointly and ask whether a managerial bias (overconfidence) matters for decisions under the control of the manager, but not for decisions outside the manager’s core duties. Using a new data set on CEO and CFO overconfidence, we show ...