Business networks are used by firms as a tool for organising interdependent business
activities, where such networks are defined as a cooperative arrangement between independent business organisations that can vary from ...
This work sets out to empirically test what kind of relationship, if any, exists between
three variables which are playing an ever-important role in international trade theory and patterns. These are intra-industry trade ...
Tourism plays an important role in many countries around the globe by creating foreign exchange and generating employment, and by contributing to a more balanced spread of economic activity in areas with few alternative ...
Workforce ageing has been labelled the defining social issue of the 21st century. Projections of diminishing workforces and declining prosperity have led to the realisation that ‘older workers’ are required to remain in ...
Trépel, Dominic André(University of Limerick, 2012)
Dementia is a progressive syndrome causing cognitive decline and functional
impairment. The economic burden of dementia is greater than that of stroke, heart
disease and cancer combined: however, resources allocated to ...
Economic activities are considered as embedded in the social structure by
many sociologists. Not very often though, is there a measurement of the
kinship network on business performance by economists themselves. It is
the ...
This research identifies, clarifies, and evaluates the nature of product advantage and its relationship with new product performance in SMEs. Throughout this thesis a number of research objectives were presented and ...
Understanding how expatriates adjust to the various aspects of the host
environment has been a focal point of research within international human
resource management literature for several decades. Person-environment ...
Martínez-Covarrubias, Juan Luis(University of Limerick, 2012)
Developing countries have recently been emulating innovation policies
implemented by developed countries with the firm conviction that it will improve
their economic development prospects. Nevertheless, the specificities ...
Sherman, Ultan Patrick(University of Limerick, 2012)
This study examines the content of the psychological contract at its formation stage. Three individual antecedents were identified that were expected to influence these content dimensions (careerism, type of exchange ...