Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – A revealed preference, also referred to as citation impact, method was utilized. Citation data were obtained from Google Scholar by using Harzing’s Publish or Perish tool. The h-index and the g-index were employed to develop a ranking list...

We develop a unique survey that focuses on the job search behavior of individuals regardless their labor force status and field it annually starting in 2013. use our to study relationship between effort outcomes for employed non?employed. Three important facts stand out: (1) on?the?job is pervasive, more intense at lower rungs ladder; (2) are least three times effective than unemployed search; ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest and empirically test a model that explains employee capabilities from the knowledge-based perspective. In this model, human capital management practices are employed as a moderator variable. Design/methodology/approach – A valid research instrument was utilized to conduct a survey of 14,769 current employees of a major North American financial s...

the study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the niger delta region of nigeria. a multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. the heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), originally developed to study production efficiency of micro-level organizations, has recently been used to construct a production-frontier approach to the analysis of international macroeconomic growth and convergence patterns. DEA methods are used to construct the convex production frontier and this construction is then employed to decompose productivity growt...

This article compares capital budgeting techniques employed in listed and unlisted companies in Brazil. We surveyed the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of 398 listed companies and 300 large unlisted companies, and based on 91 respondents, the results suggest that the CFOs of listed companies tend to use less simplistic methods more often, for example: NPV and CAPM, and that CFOs of unlisted com...

Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity E-mail: In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West German full-time employed males (BIBB/I...

This paper demonstrates how neural networks may be successfully applied to the problem of security selection in the Australian Stockmarket. In practice, it is unrealistic for a trader to apply capital to all securities available in the market, and a selection technique must be employed to reduce the number of securities competing for capital. Selection techniques are generally based on either f...