strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

Open innovation was defined by Chesbrough (2003) as a development process that allows ideas to flow through the boundaries of the firm. However, while open innovation has been the focus of extensive research and discussions since its definition by Chesbrough in 2003, no consensus has been reached on a single meaning of the term. Starting from a publication by Rosenberg (2009) that defines openn...

one of the important factors in making financial decisions is perceptual biases. they influence decisions at the time of exchanging stocks. the present research means to identify these common biases among investors and show its relation with their personality. doing this research, the statistic society is considered unlimited thus a random group of 200 investors from tehran stock exchange has b...

The paper examined the relationship between openness and agricultural performance using data covering the period 1995 to 2009. Representing openness as foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade openness, the results showed that there is no long run relationship between FDI and trade openness on one hand and agricultural performance on the other. In the short run, vtrade openness and FDI exerted...

The Malaysian government had consistently revived its campaign for “Buy Malaysian Goods” from time to time. The purpose of the campaign is to remind consumers to be ethnocentric and patriotic when purchasing product and services. This is necessary to ensure high demand for local products and services compared to foreign products. However, the decline of domestic investment in 2012 has triggered...

Increased globalization of financial and product markets has raised the interest of both market participants and regulators in the quality of financial reporting worldwide. The rise in the volatility of stock returns across the globe in the past couple of years has also been a concern. Could greater transparency in financial statement information reduce volatility and produce more accurate stoc...

A number of theoretical models predict that the slope of the Phillips curve increases with trade openness, but cross-country studies provide little evidence for such a correlation. We highlight two reasons for this …nding. Firstly, the strength of the relationship may depend on the extent of exchange rate adjustment, which is a potential determinant of output and in‡ation dynamics in open econo...

Global financial crisis caused major economic disruptions and slow down activity in North Macedonian economy. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact on Macedonia through analyzing fluctuations macroeconomic indicators In regard, it analyzes trends that reflect development balances those economies, such as GDP, unemployment, foreign direct investment, trade openness, level public deb...

The study aimed to identify the role of moral intelligence as a mediator variable in relationship between personality traits and school bullying. sample consisted 271 students from grades (7-9) North Al Batinah Governorate Sultanate Oman. This used bullying scale, short measure five major factors (TIPI) scale intelligence. results multiple regression analysis using Baron & Kenny’s method sh...