Regulatory Institutional Distance and MNCs' Subsidiary Performance: Climbing up Vs. Climbing Down the Institutional Ladder

Analytics : climbing up the ladder of behavior control

Learning Analytics can be conceptualized as an action control process. Information is collected at the behavioral level and then re-mapped to serve diagnosis at higher levels of control. We describe the rationale for moving up the ladder of behavior control with examples from eyetracking and clickstream analysis.

Climbing the Technology Ladder Too Fast ?

This paper provides a star comparison of manufacturing productivity levels in China, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan with the US as the reference country for the period 1963-1993. South Korea and Taiwan showed prolonged catch up in labour productivity with the US, whereas the other countries had long periods of relative stagnation. This is reflected in relative performance of seven det...

Climbing up the Performance Ladder: A Conceptual Framework for Emerging Country Multinationals

The paper acknowledges the emergence of the emerging country multinationals (ECMs) and their entry into the global economy. Much research has been done from the point of view of developed country multinationals, while the perspective of ECMs has been ignored. We discuss the entry of emerging country multinationals into developed markets from a cultural point of view. The cultural adaptation tha...

Climbing the cardiology career ladder in the United Kingdom.

Climbing the electricity ladder generates carbon Kuznets curve downturns

This paper examines why some countries have experienced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)-type reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, while others have not. The hypothesis that climbing to the upper rungs of the electricity ladder (nuclear power and modern renewables) has been the primary mechanism via which countries have achieved substantial reductions in per capita CO2 emissions is te...