This paper attempts to examine the international competitiveness of the Turkish automobile industry within the context of Porter's (1990) diamond framework which covers four principal determinants of competitiveness namely factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm strategy and rivalry. This analysis also provides explanations on the industry's changing ro...

Prior research suggests that accounting information is not useful when valuing firms with large amount of intangibles (Amir and Lev (1996)). However, using R from regression of earnings and book values on prices, Collins et al. (1997) (hereafter CMW) find that value-relevance for intangible-intensive industries is as high as not intangibleintensive. An explanation for the discrepancy between Am...

Microbial ecosystems were surveyed in 314 environmental samples from 54 Southern and Eastern European small-scale processing units (PUs) manufacturing traditional dry fermented sausages. The residual microflora contaminating the surfaces and the equipment were analysed after cleaning and disinfection procedures. All the PU environments were colonised at various levels by spoilage and technologi...

1. Biomass 1.1. Photosynthesis and Biomass Yields 1.2. Biomass Properties 1.2.1. Polymeric and Chemical Composition 1.2.2. Fuels Analysis 1.2.3. Physical Properties 1.2.4. Biomass Briquettes and Pellets 2. The Biomass and Bioenergy System 2.1. Biomass is the World’s Fourth Fuel 2.1.1. Individual Country Usage 3. End-use Patterns of Biomass and Bioenergy Use 3.1. Daily Living 3.1.1. Efficiency o...

Cities are hubs of human activity; the everyday actions of myriad households, businesses, and industries located within a city’s geopolitical boundary. Measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with cities is confounded by the relatively small spatial scale of cities compared with the large-scale engineered infrastructures in which they are embedded; that is, the electricity grid, tra...

It is often claimed that information technology has the potential to transform entire industries. However, we find that very little IS research has been conducted at the industry level. Moreover, the small amount of research that has been conducted on IT and industries has been based largely on just one perspective of industries. Given the scale and potential impact of the changes that are happ...

Rajasthan has been a state of natural conflicts. Due to adverse geographical location, desert, lack water and infrastructure, there little development large scale industries. Therefore, small cottage industries, rural industries handicraft have special importance in the economy Rajasthan. Small hold for terms employment generation, income, best utilization local resources, industrial decentrali...

This paper examines the effects of technology spillover from FDI based on panel data analysis of Chinese large-scale domestic manufacturing industries. We use the panel data of 27 Chinese manufacturing industries from 2001 to 2007. We estimate technology spillover effects by two steps. First, we estimate the total factor productivity of domestic firms’ and foreign firms’ by Cobb-Douglas Product...