This paper is concerned with the saddle-path stability of monetary growth rules in a two-country two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Alongside standard features of emerging economies, such as a combination of producer and local currency pricing for exports, fiscal dominance and oil exports, this model also incorporates informal labour and production sectors and examines how...

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate in-depth how the managerial processes involving middle managers are affected by performance measurement information. More specifically the study gives understanding on the impact of performance measures, policies and procedures (formal controls); and individual intuition and experiential knowledge (informal controls) on the work of middle managers...

The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

There is a world-wide trend towards global cross-cultural networks of outsourcing relationships that are enabled by the extensive use of informationand communication technology (ICT). While ICT reduces national boundaries of global collaboration, cultural differences between outsourcers and vendor firms in offshore locations pose unique management challenges. This literature review analyzes the...

In times of rapid technological and socioeconomic changes, knowledge sharing and learning have become critical assets for most organizations and companies. New ways of learning and training are needed to cope with the rising demand of information. The Microtraining method developed on basis of recent learning theories and concepts is an answer to the need of flexibility of learning settings rel...

This paper analyzes how different visualisations of interaction information can be used to indicate user activity and support informal learning. The question for research is how to support learners in unstructured and emerging environments to become aware of their often unconscious learning processes. Based on this question, two design studies and three experiments were conducted, to analyze th...

In computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication several concepts and systems for remote interaction have been developed within the last decades. For instance, media spaces are systems that ‘support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness’, which ‘may lead to informal interactions, spontaneous connections...’ [5]. They were...

Modern software architecting increasingly often takes place in geographically distributed contexts involving teams of professionals and customers with different backgrounds and roles. So far, attention and effort have been mainly dedicated to individuals sharing already formalized knowledge and less to social, informal collaboration. Furthermore, in Web 2.0 contexts, little to no attention has ...

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate in-depth how the managerial processes involving middle managers are affected by performance measurement information. More specifically the study gives understanding on the impact of performance measures, policies and procedures (formal controls); and individual intuition and experiential knowledge (informal controls) on the work of middle managers...

the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of nigerian insurance companies using data envelopment analysis (dea). because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten nigerian insurance companies for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012. the input employed were commission expenses and management expenses, while premium and investment income...