A firm’s own industry at country-level is likely to constitute an organizational field from which emerge conformity pressures. Relying on neo-institutional theory, we assert that corporate environmental disclosure (CED) and social disclosure (CSD) follow an imitation process. Specifically, we assess the determinants and economic consequences of intra-industry similarity in CED and CSD for a sam...

Given the importance of economic training, it has been successfully incorporated in the elementary school curricula in Australia, China, and Scotland. However, the absence of such topic within the Iranian curriculum requires a model based on the successful experiences of these countries. The selected three curricula were initially described, then interpreted, categorized, and finally compared a...

Similarity is a fundamental measure in network analyses and machine learning algorithms, with wide applications ranging from personalized recommendation to socio-economic dynamics. We argue that an effective similarity measurement should guarantee the stability even under some information loss. With six bipartite networks, we investigate the stabilities of fifteen similarity measurements by com...

$L$-fuzzy rough sets are extensions of the classical rough sets by relaxing theequivalence relations to $L$-relations. The topological structures induced by$L$-fuzzy rough sets have opened up the way for applications of topological factsand methods in granular computing. In this paper, we firstly prove thateach arbitrary $L$-relation can generate an Alexandrov $L$-topology.Based on this fact, w...

T IS good to have this opportunity to present my views regarding inflation and the economic outlook. I find it rather sobering to reflect that our country, as well as most other major industrial countries, has experienced almost a decade of rising inflation. In reviewing economic history, I find that we are at a point similar to 1939 in that then too our country, along with the rest of the worl...