The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many of the weaknesses in our current systems government and commerce. In this essay, I provide some historical context to recent era “hyper-globalization.” then present multiple factors—economic, social, political, technological, governance-related—that collectively explain why globalization peaked is on retreat. Following this, use analogy a three-legged stoo...

This study aims to compare 3 observational techniques for assessing postural load, namely, OWAS, RULA, and REBA. The comparison was based on the evaluation results generated by the classification techniques using 301 working postures. All postures were sampled from the iron and steel, electronics, automotive, and chemical industries, and a general hospital. While only about 21% of the 301 postu...

This paper conducts an empirical study on output, costs and incomes in organic farming with a sample of Spanish firms. Financial accounting data reveals that organic and partly or transitional to organic farming do not get significantly different output than intensive farming. Farms in transition to organic farming bear significantly higher costs and obtain significantly lower income than inten...

the present study surveys the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic conditions on bank performance to examine the structure-conduct-performance (scp) hypothesis in iranian banking industry. to achieve this goal, we drew upon the panel data technique to analyze the data of eleven public and private iranian banks during 2001-2006. firstly, productivity was calculated by usi...

Ambidexterity has been linked to firm structures that are typical of organizations with a larger size. However, further research is needed analyze whether the effect size on ambidexterity contingent other aspects. We argue micro and small firms have developed some competitive intelligence routines (CIRs) may foster ambidextrous behavior compensate for limitations arising from smaller lack resou...

Some studies have provided empirical evidence that firms’ high growth rates just before economic crises are negatively associated with resilience. Other authors observed firms grow fast in the early phases of an external crisis generally more resilient. This countercyclical behavior is less common small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), literature has not delved into underlying factors faci...

Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion reduced over the 1980s and the early 1990s along a process of centralisation of the wage sett...

This study investigates how the Psychological Capital (PsyCap) of small and medium enterprises (SME) leaders has influenced their strategic responses, ultimately impacting performance companies, during COVID-19 pandemic. Embedded within research on behavioral micro-foundations in strategy, based resource-based theory (RBT) individual entrepreneur as well positive organizational behavior literat...

Using recent data from the Chinese manufacturing industry and the generalised propensity score, this paper establishes economically significant causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic and export markets dynamics. JEL classification: F23, G28, C24