Based on recent field survey data collected in three African countries, this study examines interfirm and inter-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and subcontracting relationships; firm-university linkages; and firm-industrial association linkages. Employing univariate and multivariate an...

As an inevitable result of Russia’s higher education policies the past two decades, new university leaders in and outside Moscow St. Petersburg have emerged, vertical differentiation has increased. Inequality educational potential a strong regional dimension, exerting considerable delayed impact on socioeconomic development. Differences universities’ resources affected their ability to adapt in...

This study examined the implementation of Ghana’s child rights legislation (Children’s Act 560) in four districts in respect of the establishment of prescribed administrative and institutional structures, the service delivery procedures, and challenges. The data from the four districts (cases –studies) were analysed by thematic grouping of responses. The results showed that the established admi...

Recent studies show that single-quarter institutional herding positively predicts short-term returns. Motivated by the theoretical herding literature, which emphasizes endogenous persistence in decisions over time, we estimate the e¤ect of multi-quarter institutional buying and selling on stock returns. Using both regression and portfolio tests, we …nd that persistent institutional trading nega...

This practice article describes the use of collaborative evaluation for institutional improvement leading to continuous learning at a regional university in Australia. The University Southern Queensland’s Academic Quality Framework (2019–2022) was developed response external drivers improve practices relating comprehensive and systematic analysis academic data. One aspect introduce ‘course enha...

Information Technology industry is growing with very high speed and has become an integral part of the curriculum of all the universities/educational institutes. Teaching or using advanced technology in university is a costly affair with highly configurable systems. Cloud Computing has emerged as a cost effective solution to provide the latest and highly configurable resources/systems with less...

Objective Art business takes place in an institutional context and is highly reliant on the cultural, political, and social content of a society. Because of a variety of reasons such as the profitability of art industry in foreign market, low academic marketing knowledge, the opposing ideas to art economy according to its players, the high rate of graduate students in art disciplines and the n...