The successes of the games industry requires an analysis of the way in which the state is influencing, or attempting to influence, the development of the sector. Drawing from a research project on games, transmedia and the law, including a roundtable with developers and others from the industry, a critical perspective is provided on the impact of three types of law (tax, consumer and intellectu...

Vietnam is a fast growing economy in the Asian region with a significantly high population (over 92 million in 2015). Although still expanding (about 1.1% on average during 2000-2015), the Vietnamese population is considered to be entering the ageing stage at a very high rate. The rapid expansion of the middle-income urban class and the ageing people ratio have dramatically pushed up the demand...

In spite of recognising the potential of electronic commerce (e-commerce), a majority of the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry participants still adopt a ‘wait-and-see’ approach in their investments of information technologies. Quantitative study and benchmarks can help the industry to have a better understanding and implementation of e-commerce. Research work that focuses on...

the main objective of the present survey is to conduct a comparative analysis of the challenges of the performance evaluation system in two private and public sectors and their impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. this survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. the historical study method was used to collect theoretical subjects and the field study meth...

Industrial renewal in the bio/nanopharma sector is important for the long term strength of the Australian economy and for the health of its citizens. A variety of factors, however, may have caused inadequate attention to focus on systematically promoting domestic generic and small biotechnology manufacturers in Australian health policy. Despite recent clarifications of 'springboarding' capacity...

the present study used different categories of organized sector manufacturing industries pooled data for the periods of 1981-82 and 2007-08 in haryana state (india). the present undertaking seeks to analyze the inter-temporal and inter-industry comparison of total factor productivity (tfp) measured by malmquist productivity index - an application of dea which calculates the indices of tfp and i...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

Singapore is poised to become an international exhibition city in the next century. Despite its young age, the local exhibition industry is already a significant contributor to the economy, bringing in an enviable amount of revenue for the tourism sector. Throughout the years, the quality of exhibitions as well as the people and processes behind these events, have been constantly upgraded with ...

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TECHNICAL APPENDIX FOR MEASURING THE BURDEN OF THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX UNDER IMPERFECT COMPETITION APPENDIX A: THEORY In this section we first summarize the Davidson and Martin (1985) (DM) model of the incidence of the corporate income tax under imperfect competition and then derive a comparative static result that describes how the degree of imperfect competition affects the incidence of the ...