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Exploring the Relationship Between Military Spending & Human Rights Performance in South Asia
(2008-10-01)
The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically underdeveloped. Seeking to fulfill this existing gap in ...
“Supply Disruptions, Asymmetric Information, and a Dual Sourcing Option
(2008-09)
We study a manufacturer's strategic use of a dual-sourcing option when facing suppliers who possess private information about their likelihood of experiencing a supply disruption. The manufacturer can diversify its supply ...
Market Risk Dynamics and Competitiveness After the Euro: Evidence from EMU Members
(2008-02-01)
In this paper we propose an empirical model that considers theoretical facts on the relationship between real exchange rates and the net exports of the economy to supplement the interaction of a number of financial and ...
Leveraging sponsorships on the Internet: Activation, congruence, and articulation
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-07)
This paper considers how the Internet can be used to leverage commercial sponsorships to enhance audience attitudes toward the sponsor. Definitions are offered that distinguish the terms leverage and activation with respect ...
Faith at Work: Toward a Theology of Business Administration
(2008-04-01)
The book consists of seven related essays about what faith in God means for business today. Although each is written to deliver a soulful message of its own, each serves as a chapter of a rudimentary theology for business ...
Socioeconomic, Institutional & Political Determinants of Human Rights Abuse: A Subnational Study of India, 1993-2002
(2008-06-01)
We conduct an econometric analysis of socioeconomic, institutional and political factors determining government respect for human rights within India. Using time series crosssectional data for 28 Indian states for the ...
What happens when firms patent? New evidence from US economic census data
(2008-01)
In this study, we present novel statistics on the patenting in US manufacturing and new evidence on the question of what happens when firms patent. We do so by creating a comprehensive firm-patent matched dataset that ...
Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment
(2008-02-01)
performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other ...
Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
(2008-09-01)
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with ...
Are Emerging Economies FDI Inflows Cointegrated With FDI Inflows of China? An Empirical Investigation
(2008-12-01)
Emerging economies viz., Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa have seen a tremendous increase in the FDI inflows in the last one decade. Amongst all, the FDI inflows of China witnessed sharp rise from 1992. As on ...