The main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (IC) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 Malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. The manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (Standard Industrial Classification (...

Acknowledgements We acknowledge support of our research from the European Union (EU Framework Program 6, AGRON-OMICS (LSHG-CT-2006-037704)), the Swiss National Science Foundation, CTI (Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency) and ETH Zurich. We thank the Functional Genomics Center Zurich for support of our profiling experiments. Apologies to all colleagues whose work could not be cited due to space c...

requestors with the tobacco industry. There were 129 requests in total. Charges totalled over $NZ13 000. They were in accordance with official guidelines. They included staff time for searching for information, and photocopying. Figure 1 shows that most (84%) of the requests were from tobacco industry related sources. They were a public relations company whose managing director was previously d...

Introduction In the modern turbulent business environment, companies are constantly encountering challenges in coping with the changes and complexity in the market. Moreover, the companies have to manage the complexity of their information and communication technology (ICT) environment brought on by the many decades long legacy of ICT, and to assure that ICT supports the business as well as pos...

Abstract The final provisions of the UK’s Companies Act 2006 have now been in force for 10 years. Part this regime included a new form model constitution, known as Model Articles. This article uses empirical data to establish whether Articles used practice or not. To do so, it tracks constitutions sample companies (those incorporated Scotland October 2009) from their incorporation until Decembe...