This study examines the impacts of quality working environment and its components on corporate financial distress. Employing a unique dataset firm-level data from 41 countries over period 2012–2018, we find that better is related to higher level soundness. Particularly, firms which have training career development policies are less likely take excessive risks. Further examination suggests tends...

Malaysian shipping industry is facing a crewing crisis the seriousness of which does not seem to have registered as priority by given fact that current deficit about 10,000 could leap-fold unprecedented levels in next couple years. The global must come grips quickly with realities and concerns on emerging shortages demand for well-trained experienced seafarers biggest challenge itself. worldwid...

E-working undergoes a facelift. Its present extent and format are extending to (re)define the future of workplaces. The consequences sudden arrival COVID-19 pandemic not fully understood yet, because radical evolution work is still running. Over past few months, nearly every organization seems have implemented its e-working practices. Some them contradict each other, which may lead confusion di...

The central premise of this paper is that e-collaboration plays a major role in achieving a sustainable competitive edge. In particular, we propose to examine the relative efficiency of electronic collaboration tools and to assess their impacts on the innovativeness and performance of individual firms positioned along a single supply chain. Empirical data from both the upstream and downstream p...

Conventional memory systems are organized as a rigid hierarchy, with multiple levels of progressively larger and slower memories. Hierarchy allows a simple, fixed design to benefit a wide range of applications, because working sets settle at the smallest (and fastest) level they fit in. However, rigid hierarchies also cause significant overheads, because each level adds latency and energy even ...