This study examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity having controlled for other channels of external openness: exports and imports in four ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. We employ the panel data analysis PDA (fixed effect and dynamic panel models) as well as the panel cointegration and Granger causali...

This study examines the relationship between corporate social performance and the Company's internal control. For the study, the definition of corporate social performance is used Wood (Wood, 1991) and social performance into the process (internal processes, management) and outcome (social impact) is divided. To assess the social performance of corporate social performance version of the questi...

Entrepreneurship has long been perceived as a crucial determinant for economic growth. There has been a considerable upsurge in researches trying to determine the main elements driving entrepreneurship and the channel through which entrepreneurship generates economic growth; however, a global consensus has not been reached yet on theoretical, methodological and empirical levels.  The basic prob...

introduction this study examines the level of farmers' perception of hazards, as well as their impacts on efficiency and mentally quality of farmers' life and profession. the relationship between each dimension of quality of work life and efficiency is studied too.   methodology the research method is descriptive and includes a survey of many selected villages in yazd province (farmer...

This study examines dynamic interrelationships and causality relationships among CO2 emissions, economic, political and financial variables over the period of 1971-2011 for the case of Iran as one of the top CO2 emitting countries in the world. The results of ARDL and Johansen cointegration approaches confirm the existence of long run relationship among CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, f...

leaders need ethic, because they are responsible. people in leadership positions are the source of employee’s behavioral changes that requires leaders with high moral intelligence. on the eve of the third millennium, with acute competitive conditions, changes in management practices and organizational leadership are inevitable. in such circumstances, taking advantage of transformational leaders...

Life-stories offer an approach to understanding personality processes within a larger, developmental context. This study examines the role that one area of a person's larger context (namely romantic relationships) plays in that person's life-story. Specifically, the study examines whether this role changes over the lifespan. Nineteen students from a consortium of colleges in southern California...