people’s republic of china has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. this study focuses on “whether china should continue its ifrs-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the ifrs is more appropriate”? both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

This article draws on an analysis of development of ‘technological capability’ in the Indonesian electronics industry. It presents a theory of industrial organisation. The theory is based on the recognition that economies develop gradually through the cumulative expansion of both production capacity and organisational/institutional structures. Through an empirical survey of the Indonesian elect...

Due to embodied technological progress new generations of capital goods are more productive. Therefore, in order to study the effects of technological progress, a model must be analyzed in which different generations of capital goods can be distinguished. We determine in what way the firm adjusts current investments to predictions of technological progress. In the presence of market power we sh...

Widespread social change and the emergence of online information technologies are transforming the curricula and learning cultures of the higher education sector. This paper presents a case study of one course in a preservice teacher education program that attempts to model in its pedagogy the relationship between information technology, teaching and collaborative learning that is taught in its...

The success of any learning environment is determined by the degree to which there is adequate alignment among eight critical factors: 1) goals, 2) content, 3) instructional design, 4) learner tasks, 5) instructor roles, 6) student roles, 7) technological affordances, and 8) assessment. Evaluations of traditional, online, and blended approaches to higher education teaching indicate that the mos...