Reproductive tourism is the travelling by candidate service recipients from one institution, jurisdiction, or country where treatment is not available to another institution, jurisdiction, or country where they can obtain the kind of medically assisted reproduction they desire. The more widespread this phenomenon, the louder the call for international measures to stop these movements. Three pos...

This paper examines the information content of loan announcements using an event study methodology. I differentiate between loan announcements according to the type of lending institution. The empirical results suggest that the information released by bank loans announcements are greater than loans announced by other lenders. Furthermore, the market response is greatest when the borrower firm h...

Because of the inherent non-controllability of business services across different management domains, constructing virtual organizations, by creating service cooperation in Internet computing environment, has been confronted with the challenge of so-called “trust” crisis that the success and benefit of cooperation cannot be ensured. Thereby this paper proposes a model for Institution-Governed T...

30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Charles W. Laughlin, Director and Dean, Cooperative Extension Service, CTAHR, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Institution providing programs and services to the people of Hawaii without regard to race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability...

As a service organization, for an academic institution, knowledge sharing is a critical process that needed to be done and developed always in order to achieve sustainable advantage, emphasizing its role as center of excellence. The research objection was to explore the relationship between the three constructs: Knowledge Sharing, Absorptive Capacity and Channel Richness. The conceptual and str...

This study aims to investigate student satisfaction on quality education services provided by institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Their level of satisfaction based primarily on the data collected through five dimensions of education service quality. A random sample of 250 students studying in an institution of higher learning was selected for this study. Statistical analysis had been e...

Global evidence for non-random dynamics in fish recruitment Charles T. Perretti1,3∗, Stephan B. Munch, Michael J. Fogarty George Sugihara 1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 2 National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA 3 National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...

30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Charles W. Laughlin, Director and Dean, Cooperative Extension Service, CTAHR, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Institution providing programs and services to the people of Hawaii without regard to race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability...

Scholars have argued that higher education is a “greedy institution” monopolizes employees’ time and energy. Further, women minoritized faculty bear the heaviest burdens of these demands with respect to teaching service. In this auto-ethnographic paper, we explore escalating greedy institution during COVID-19 pandemic.