in this study, the impact of internal r&d; expenditure, technology imports and interaction effects between human capital and technology imports on value added of iranian large industries are investigated over the period of 1994-2008. for this purpose, an endogenous growth model is used in which production is a function of labor, capital stock, human capital, internal r&d; expenditure, technolog...

Fuzzy equivalents of all the classical capital budgeting (investment choice) methods are generalised or proposed. These equivalents can be used to evaluate and compare projects in which the cash ows, duration time and required rate of return (cost of capital) are given imprecisely, in the form of a fuzzy number. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Our Millennium was a special project of the Community Foundations of Canada to mark the new century. It used the occasion of the millennium to invite Canadians to make lasting “gifts” to their communities to make them better places. An assessment of the Our Millennium initiative noted the disproportionate number of projects that featured various aspects of arts, culture, and heritage. This stud...

For one–period projects under certainty, the notion of Net Present Value (NPV) formally translates the notion of economic profit, where the discount rate is the cost of capital. Under uncertainty, the cost of capital is the expected rate of return of an equivalent-risk alternative that the investor might undertake and is often found by making recourse to the Capital Asset Pricing Model. This pa...

The passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) ushered in a new wave of equity crowdfunding in the United States. Title II of the JOBS Act aims to make it easier for new ventures to raise funds from accredited investors. The number of Title II crowdfunded projects is growing rapidly. Based on data for U.S. online 506(c) offerings across 17 leading platforms, more than $1.27 b...

With the increasing importance of leadership in project-based organizations, innovation is essential for the sustainable development of construction projects. Since few studies have explored the relationship between leadership and innovation in construction projects, this study fills this research gap and makes a significant theoretical contribution to the existing body of literature. Based on ...

Recent literature (McNulty, Yeh, Schulze, & Lubatkin, 2002) states that the assumptions behind the capital asset pricing model, in particular the irrelevance of time horizon, do not correspond to the characteristics of firms that prefer long-term investment horizons. I show that family firms display a longer time horizon than most of their nonfamily counterparts, since (1) family firms display ...

IS projects have been extensively studied, yet continue to be riddled with problems. The concern is aggravated in collaborative IS projects since they involve dual challenges of managing interorganizational relationships and of integrating diverse knowledge bases across organizations that may possess distinct strategic goals and conflicting interests. Prior research has indicated that social ca...

OBJECTIVES To review the impact of agriculture interventions on nutritional status in participating households, and to analyse the characteristics of interventions that improved nutrition outcomes. DESIGN We identified and reviewed reports describing 30 agriculture interventions that measured impact on nutritional status. The interventions reviewed included home gardening, livestock, mixed ga...

This article is concerned with exploring how children develop and utilize stocks of social capital. It draws on two research projects illustrating children’s family, peer and community networks. In the burgeoning literature on social capital, children’s accounts remain under-researched. Indeed most of the literature operates with a simplistic view of adults passing social capital assets on to c...