Professional doctorates, particularly in Australia and the UK, have been a significant growth area over the last 20 years. We discuss the emergence of professional doctorates in management education and their contribution to a more practice-based approach to doctoral education, with particular reference to the doctor of business administration degree (DBA). Professional doctorates were develope...

As we are entering the New Millenium, we are witnessing a global shift toward a society of services. The evolution of the world's workforce structure indicates clearly the magnitude and importance of this mega-shift. The introduction of new, exciting technologies has led to a kind of New Economy that is based on the huge and rapid flows of data, information and knowledge. The Internet has had a...

Modern economy is based more and more on knowledge. Terms such as management of knowledge, organisational learning and intelligent organisations are becoming more widespread amongst world leading companies. Over the past few years, intangible resources, based on the exploitation of ideas, have turned progressively into the real motor behind developed economies, giving place to the so-called the...

Sharing economy platforms facilitate people's sharing of underutilized resources by adding value to their users, such as reducing transaction costs and building trust. However, it is discovered by practitioners that users may actually bypass, or 'disintermediate', the platforms to strike direct deals on their own. This phenomenon motivates this research to understand sharing economy user bypass...

OECD's books, periodicals and statistical databases are now available via www.SourceOECD.org, our online library. Ask your librarian for more details of how to access OECD books on line, or write to us at [email protected] Today's " knowledge economies " are seeing the emergence of new paradigms for innovation and the advancement of knowledge in relation to economic activities. This report ex...

Using an overlapping generations model, this paper investigates the implications of status-seeking behavior, induced by preferences for relative income, for the evolution of income inequality. When average income rises, an individual’s marginal utility of their own income may increase (keeping up with the Joneses, or KUJ), or decrease (running away from the Joneses, or RAJ). It is shown that in...

this paper proposes a structural model for the analysis of correlation between knowledge economy index and sustainable development across the world. an analytical model is devised for investigation of the role of the major factors in the process of development. the proposed structural model is calibrated using statistical data from the world bank, and the united nations for national economies a...