In order to explain the success of entrepreneurial firms, it is necessary to identify the conditions that generate new business opportunities. Emerging economies such as China are perceived as high risk environments due to fundamental institutional transformations. Yet, there’s no conclusive evidence how the contextual nature of emerging economies impact the conditions for entrepreneurial firms...

The current "manufacturing paradigm" of transfusion practice has detached transfusion from the clinical environment. As an example, fresh whole blood in large-volume hemorrhage may be superior to whole blood reconstituted from multiple components. Multicomponent apheresis can overcome logistical difficulties in matching patient needs with fresh component availability and can deliver the benefit...

Article history: Received 26 August 2013 Received in revised form 5 September 2013 Accepted 23 September 2013 Available online 29 September 2013 While many studies have looked into the determinants of yields on externally issued sovereign bonds of emerging economies, analysis of domestically issued bonds has hitherto been limited, despite their growing relevance. This paper finds that the exten...

Although emerging market Asian economies have experienced high growth without crises for close to a decade, many commentators find the large buildup of foreign exchange reserves among these economies both puzzling and evidence of incipient global imbalances. This paper reviews some of the experience of Asian countries over the last decade. We focus on the degree to which Asian economies have ex...

This paper investigates whether Taylor rule can better guide the monetary policy in developing economies. Existing literatures do not focus on the implementability of rule-based monetary policy in emerging economies. In last two decades a number of industrialised countries have gained success in achieving macroeconomic policy goals by switching to rule-based policy regime from discretionary fra...

Information technology (IT) projects continue to suffer from frequent cost and time overruns and failure to fully deliver on the expected benefits to the users or the organization. Furthermore, what determines the success or failure of information technology implementations and use in developing and emerging economies may differ substantially from generally accepted success factors in highly de...

• Since the crisis, most East Asian governments recognise the urgent need to strengthen regulations to increase corporate transparency and enforce better treatment of outside investors; this is essential to support regional economies transition from a relationship to a rules based business model and enable their return to robust growth. • In the region's most advanced economies, corporate discl...

Health is a critical dimension of human well-being and flourishing, and oral health is an integral component of health: one is not healthy without oral health. Significant barriers exist to ensuring the world's people receive basic healthcare, including oral healthcare. Amongst these are poverty, ignorance, inadequate financial resources and lack of adequate numbers of educated and trained (ora...