Prior studies have found that job dissatisfaction and self-efficacy are significant factors influencing individuals' entrepreneurial propensity. The argument is that individuals who are dissatisfied with their jobs are more likely to seek alternative mode of employment such as self-employment. In other words, poor job circumstances may push individuals to leave...
The standard argument says that in the presence of positive spillovers foreign direct investment should be promoted and subsidized. In contrast, this paper claims that the very existence of such spillovers may require temporarily restricting and taxing inward FDI Foreign Direct Investment. Argument in favor of gradual liberalization is based...
This paper takes the intrusion of the term 'Risk management' into the social policy discourse as a 'moral opportunity' to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in four steps: First, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices points to the bounded rationality of risky...
This paper addresses the legal issues related to digital downloading and technological controls by examining recent cases and the relevant portions of United States Copyright Law. In doing so, the typical defense of "fair use", as well as some of the newer arguments derived from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,...
It is a well-known empirical result that self-finance is an important option for people when financing entrepreneurship. In fact, the leading entrepreneurial theories even seem to indicate that questions about the existence and extent of entrepreneurship more or less are disconnected from the question of self-finance. The purpose of this...
Variance contracts permit the trading of 'Variance risk', i.e. the risk that the squared volatility of stock returns changes randomly over time. The authors discuss why investors might want to trade this type of risk, and why they might prefer a variance contract to standard calls and puts for this...
This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally given it credit....
This paper sets out to demonstrate that the traditional approach to risk management is based on a flawed assumption regarding the objectivity of risk. Risk management is generally seen as a possible remedy for the frequent failure of ISD Information Systems Development efforts. The idea behind traditional risk management is...
The shift from a product-oriented business strategy to a customer-focused one has been a major change agent in companies recently. Many companies have invested heavily in technologies enabling a customer focused relationship marketing strategy. However, there are mixed results as to how successful firms have been in implementing customer relationship...
The level of the IPO Initial public offerings spread taken by the underwriter is a controversial issue. Some claim that the level is too high and attributes it to collusion between investment banks while others contend to the contrary. The paper examines the spread in the framework of conflicts of...
This paper argues that technologies perform in Janus faced ways; that is, in ways that are ironic, perverse and paradoxical, and it is argued that these qualities are important to apprehend if we are to more fully understand the role of technology in organizations and in our daily lives. The...
This paper, through risk analysis methodology, addresses two popular arguments against extending the scope of exception to copyright in digital environment: the sunk cost argument and the free riding argument. It concludes that while both arguments are legitimate, they were built upon many doubtful assumptioscial vrants). Even when free riding...
Closing argument is the advocate's only opportunity to tell the story of the entire case, free from interruption and many of the restrictive rules that apply to opening statements and the presentation of evidence. Giving a well-organized, succinct and compelling argument is challenging in any type of case; in the...
“The Color of Money,” a series of articles published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in May 1988 (Dedman 1988), documented persistent barriers in access to mortgage credit in Atlanta’s African-American neighborhoods.Wyly and Holloway (1999) updated the original study with recent data and found that during the intervening decade traditional lenders still...
The article argues that democratic institutions have conflicting effects on FDI inflows. On the one hand, democratic institutions hinder FDI inflows. They tend to limit the oligopolistic or monopolistic behaviors of multinational enterprises, facilitate indigenous businesses’ pursuit of protection from foreign capital, and constrain host governments’ ability to offer generous...
Increasingly, merchandise and travel incentive programs are leaving the realm of the local sales manager and entering the zone of the central marketing team. These large, big budget sales incentive programs were created to take administrative headaches away from the sales manager. Is there a diseconomy of scale when it...
The question this article addresses is does increased democracy promote or jeopardize Foreign Direct Investment FDI inflows to Less Developed Countries LDCs. It argues that democracy affects FDI inflows through competing causal avenues. On one hand, the higher levels of political participation and representation that are part of more democratic...
The way you communicate is the primary determinant of whether the person you are interacting with will listen and think about what you say, be indifferent to it, OR, fight like heck against it. We've made a list of the most common and detrimental ways of communicating that usually completely...
Following the recent Supreme Court decision ruling the Washington, DC, handgun ban unconstitutional, officials in the District of Columbia are attempting to circumvent the high court by outlawing semi-automatic pistols in reluctant acceptance of revolvers. "The D.C. ban of semiautomatics is unjustified," said Smith & Wesson's Paul Pluff. "With all...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Smith and Wesson has made the J-Frame which is one of today s most popular carry guns. I know, some of you big bore guys are starting to get hot, but the reality is this--small pocket rockets aren't beginners' guns and usually used for backup, but...
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