a r t i c l e i n f o As China experience unprecedented changes in its social, legal, and economic institutions, on what should foreign firms focus more to overcome this challenge, managerial ties or market orientation? This study investigates how managerial ties and market orientation affect competitive advantage and, consequently, firm performance in China. On the basis of a survey of 179 for...

the impact of meteorological and hydrological drought on groundwater resources in coastal deserts in the south of iran was investigated during 1991-2011, using standardized precipitation index (spi), standardized runoff index (sri), and groundwater resources index (gri). the results indicated that wet and drought spells governed the area in the first and second decades, respectively, which was ...

Background Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two methods and to compare their results in a population aged 40-64 years in Shahroud, Iran.   Methods: The data of 5188 participants in the first phase o...

We discuss and examine empirically a firm-level equivalent of the ancient problem of ‘tying the King’s hands’, namely how to avoid managerial intervention that is undertaken to reap private benefits but is harmful to overall value creation, that is, ‘managerial opportunism’. The link from managerial intervention to firm-level value-creation is moderated by employee motivation. Thus, interventio...

BACKGROUND The specific role of major socio-economic indicators in influencing food preparation behaviours could reveal distinct socio-economic patterns, thus enabling mechanisms to be understood that contribute to social inequalities in health. This study investigated whether there was an independent association of each socio-economic indicator (education, occupation, income) with food prepara...

economic growth and development of market, stock exchange and related variables are among components which influence on business, economic activities and management of society. financial repression is among economic variables greatly influencing on financial market specifically capital market and economic growth and development; so that, this concept caused to publish financial growth and devel...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 1 . Recent developments in index number theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 A . The axiomatic approach to index number theory . . . . . . . . 126 B . The economic theoretic approach to index numbers . . . . . . 130 II . Chain indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 A . Smooth chain ...