Micro level studies suggest managerial skills play a key role in the adoption of modern technologies. In this paper we model the interactive process between on-the-job managerial skill acquisition and the adoption of modern technology. We use the model to illustrate why some countries develop managerial skills quickly and adopt best practice technologies, while others stay backwards. The model ...

one of the best ways to encountering administrative corruption is identifying the factors of its emersion, prevalence and control. this paper aims to determine and prioritize those mentioned factors in educational system. research results showed that economic conditions of educational personnel have most important impact on tendency to commit corruption. also, administrative and managerial mech...

Software reuse is one of the technical approach that many believe can reduce software development time and cost. Reuse is clearly a partial solution to the long and costly development problems with complex control systems.This paper discusses why software is hard to reuse and why we cannot extend reuse analogies in other fields to software. The proposed approach is based on an incremental strat...

What are the forces that influence strategic managerial decisions in the context of economic transition? In this paper, we analyse how strategic and governance forces influence the degree of discretion perceived by managers operating in the context of the transition economy of Russia. An exploratory case study provides insights about the managerial decision-making process in a transition econom...

We develop a theoretical model of the …rm that links properties (stewardship vs. valuation focus) of …nancial reporting regimes with the informational properties of optimal managerial accounting systems. We show that, contrary to the standard textbook proposition, properties of management and …nancial accounting systems are not independent. Signi…cantly, we provide an explicit connection betwee...

performance evaluation has been developed in the form of management schools along by managerial thought development. banks and financial institutes are one of the most important economic sections to each country which by receipts and payments directing and organizing facilitate business and commercial transactions and develop markets and economic growth and as the main pillars in directing and ...

although economic and managerial literature is replete with studies that probe about productivity but only a few studies decompose it to its components (technological changes, managerial efficiency changes and scale efficiency changes)and analysis their share in productivity changes (positively or negatively). accordingly, this article attempts to explain the issue by decompose productivity to ...

iran isone of the main pistachiogrowersinthe world. kerman province is the largest grower of pistachio and sirjan is one of the most important pistachio production areas of kerman province. it is important to the study of efficiency status of pistachio growers and improvetheir efficiency and optimum use of resources in the production. the purpose of this study was to determinationtechnical effi...