in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Measurement and methodology 2.1 The definition of fixed capital stock 2.2 The perpetual inventory method 2.3 The lifetime and age of capital stock 3. Privatisation and the institutional classification of capital stock 4. Growth in real fixed capital stock 5. The composition of fixed capital stock 5.1 Fixed capital stock by kind of economic activity 5.2 Fixed capital ...

Determining the driving forces of economic growth has a paramount importance in economic studies. Early studies suggested physical capital accumulation as the main driving force of growth. However, the recent studies try to resolve the flaws of neo classical school on growth by expanding the concept of capital equipment and machinery to a wider range of human knowledge, on one hand, and in...

In this paper we analyze and evaluate a standard approach financial institutions use to calculate their so-called total economic capital. If we consider a business that faces a total random loss S over a given one-year horizon then economic capital is traditionally defined as the difference between the 99.97% percentile of S and its expectation. The standard approach essentially assumes that th...

The literature on social capital indicates that it can be an important element for enhancing economic activity in communities. Such an assertion is justified by theorizing that elements of social capital, namely trust, shared values, and established networks can form the basis for economic transactions, including labour market opportunities. However, little empirical analysis of these claims ha...

The rule of ideologies which ban interest or usury which is earned through lending money has led to developing economic systems that differ from conventional economic systems in which ,interest has been entered. The presence of systems not relying on interest, in turn, has questioned the necessary motives in capital establishments through savings. In this paper, while defining the concepts of m...

impact of economic capital on marital status (case study: behshahr) abstract undoubtedly, the family unit is one of the most important social institutions, having different forms it is known in almost all societies. different factors can affect people’s marital status. the statistical population of this study is married and single men and women, who have been residing in behshahr, iran in summe...

Nowadays, Foreign Capital Inflows (FCIs) are considered as a catalyst for economic development and an important source of transferring technology and foreign exchange earnings from developed to developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of FCIs (which include foreign direct investment, personal remittances and official development investment) on economic growth in...