The overall economic performance is summarised in the growth. It occurs when resources are combined technically an effective way. While advanced countries have no reliance on natural resources, they experience steady growth compared to resource-abundant countries. Caspian Sea basin (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan) Central Asia states (Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekis...

This paper investigates the influence of firm resources on banking service innovation performance. Drawing on the resource-based perspective, we propose a research model in which the effects of three kinds of resources i.e., employee skills, IT investment, and customer co-creation, are examined. Pilot survey data collected from 34 banks in Singapore was used as a preliminary test of the researc...

This paper models a war of attrition where participants first choose contest investment levels that act as a constraint for how long they can compete. To include a measure of the resource’s transferability to other uses (e.g. other contests), expenditures are a convex combination of investment decisions and their ‘bid’ in the contest. It is shown in the symmetric equilibrium that participants u...

In multiple industries, including the biopharmaceutical industry, automation is synonymous with increased productivity. Environments with high-throughput needs commonly employ automation for efficiency. However, in a discovery bioanalytical ligand-binding assay laboratory setting where the focus is not necessarily on sample analysis throughput, but instead on assay development and characterizat...

Theory predicts that when sperm compete numerically, selection will favor males who vary the number of sperm they transfer with the immediate level of sperm competition. In this study, I measured male mating investment in response to both female mating status (virgin vs. mated) and the number of foreign sperm stored by females in a previous mating in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata. Female sper...

This paper studies platform ecosystems, a novel business entity built upon a platform coordinating the interactions between suppliers and users, particularly in the IT service sectors. Borrowing words from two core firm theories resource-based view (RBV) and transaction cost view (TCV), we propose that the platform ecosystem works at the boundary between “market and hierarchy.” To show this, ...

In this study, a multisectoral neo-classical type price driven CGE model, with the additional feature that it includes a mechanism by which public education expenditure to build human capital augments the supply of educated/skilled labour, is used to analyse the impact of an increase in the former, financed by an increase in direct tax rates, on economic growth and income distribution in the In...

This article reviews evolutionary biological studies of sex-biased post-natal parental investment that may be relevant to the issue of preconception gender selection. The focus is on tests of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis, which predicts that natural selection has favoured parents that bias investment in favour of the sex with the best reproductive prospects. Because resource abundance and sca...

6 7 This paper develops a model of a profit maximizing firm with the option to exploit 8 a non-renewable resource, choosing the timing and pace of development. The resource 9 price is modelled as a regime switching process, which is calibrated to oil futures prices. 10 A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is specified that describes the profit maximiza11 tion decision of the firm. The model is ap...