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Publishing Workshop: The Online Author’s Survival Guide

21102009 By Kivmars Bowling, Managing Editor, Compass Journals.
In this podcast Kivmars talks about the perils and pleasures of publishing your work online, and gives practical tips to help raise the profile of your digital scholarship.
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Re-Blogged from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/08/20/libre-project-open-peer-review-perakakis/

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Today’s academic publishing system may be problematic, but many argue it is the only one available to provide adequate research evaluation. Pandelis Perakakis introduces an open community platform, LIBRE, which seeks to challenge the assumption that peer review can only be handled by journal editors. By embracing a new culture of open, transparent and independent research evaluation, the academic community can more productively contribute to global knowledge.
If you asked a commercial academic publisher what services they offer in exchange for their extortionate journal subscription rates, their reply would include a short list with administration of the peer review process featuring as the unique selling point. The publisher would be lucky for the conversation to end there, but an informed and insistent questioner would point out that peer reviews are performed by external academics providing their services for free, without even soliciting any meaningful academic recognition. To make life even easier for publishers, journal editors —also working for free— often ask authors to propose a list of recommended reviewers to effortlessly expand their database of potential academic helpers. As long as reviewers remain anonymous, no one can ever tell whether or not an editor intelligently selected suitable experts in the field, or simply invited the reviewers that authors suggested in their confidential cover letters.

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Managing the peer review process costs publishers next to nothing and yet it is indeed the single most important element that supports their business model and protects their revenue stream. The logic is simple. Journals use a “rigorous” peer review process to build their prestige by establishing high rejection rates —despite the fact that today online publishing and electronic typesetting could actually increase publication slots and maintain higher acceptance rates at next to no cost. Academics need to publish in prestigious journals as a means to achieve recognition and secure tenure. In exchange, they are willing to give away the copyright of their articles and to offer their review services for free. Commercial publishers take advantage of the situation by including prestigious journals in “Big Deal” subscription bundles that are given to libraries as “all or nothing” offers.

Someone could argue that there is no problem with journals rejecting 95% of submitted articles, with academics spending their valuable time (mostly paid with public money) reformatting and resubmitting the same articles over and over again, and with publishers (adding close to zero value to the whole process) enjoying millions in profits at a time of global economic crisis when libraries around the world are being forced to cut down on subscription budgets. Even if someone were to have no objection to that, what is really profoundly problematic and ultimately unacceptable is that this whole enterprise is based on the economics of scarcity — customarily applied in the context of limited material resources where value is accrued from exclusivity. Knowledge, however, is a totally different fruit. Contrary to material goods, the more knowledge is freely shared, the more value it obtains. Quoting George Bernard Shaw:

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Today’s academic publishing model treats knowledge —in the form of the academic article— as a material good. Instead of collaborating to shape new scientific ideas and communicate them to the research community and the public in general, scholars are forced to compete for a limited number of prestigious publication slots. As a result, science advances slower and less efficiently than it should, and young researchers entering their fields with a genuine aspiration to contribute to global knowledge are soon confronted with the ruthless “publish or perish” reality. And this is something humanity cannot accept.
Publishers, journals and academics are stuck in a vicious circle with the current academic publishing model threatening to stagnate the flow of knowledge. This circle can be broken at any moment by any one of its main key players. Publishers could charge prices according to the real value they add to the process. Journals could start to care less about their prestige and increase their acceptance rates — something that can easily be accomplished without loosening their quality standards. The academic community could gain control of scholarly evaluation and communication. Time will tell which of these possibilities is the more probable. The oxymoron, however, is that in this game academics like ourselves hold both the fruit and the basket. We create the product and we certify it. Yet, we are the ones benefiting least from the “market”. We argue, that it would take as little as simply realising the power in our hands to change the entire landscape in favour of science and society. The key is peer review.
According to its advocates, the current research evaluation system may be problematic, but is the only practical one available. Indeed, many alternative peer review models have been proposed, but they all assume that “peer review has to remain under the control of academic journals”. Perhaps the time has come to challenge this assumption. No one would deny that what scientists do best is challenge world views and investigate viable alternatives. This, after all, is what has driven knowledge forward through feudal times and the Dark Ages to the Enlightenment.
The LIBRE (LIBerating REsearch) Project developed by Open Scholar C.I.C. —a not-for-profit organisation supported by a growing, open community— is one such alternative. LIBRE challenges the fundamental assumption that peer review can only be arranged and handled by journal editors. It is a free, multi-disciplinary platform that allows academic authors to invite expert peers to formally review their work. Full-text reviews are linked to the original manuscripts and the identities of both the authors and the reviewer are disclosed from the beginning of the review process. This open and transparent procedure permits direct communication and collaboration between authors and reviewers during all stages of the review. Reviewers help authors improve their manuscripts and receive recognition for their contribution as their reports are licensed and receive their own digital object identifier (DOI) to become citable items. In a further iteration, reviews themselves are also openly evaluated by other academics, providing incentives for thorough and helpful critiques, and protecting the system from potential sources of bias.
LIBRE can be thought of as an innovative experiment designed to test whether or not the academic community is ready to adopt a direct, open, independent and transparent evaluation scheme to certify the fruits of its own labour. By entrusting the handling of peer review to authors themselves, LIBRE eliminates all costs related to the research evaluation process setting it free of financial firewalls. It is our hope that the LIBRE project will encourage the spawning of other similar platforms and “green” open access repositories embracing our author-guided peer review model. Academic journals can then concentrate on the important role of soliciting and selecting verified and high quality open access scientific articles and disseminating them to specific audiences and communities.
The online platform, which will be officially launched in October 2013, was developed with the help of research grants and its maintenance depends on a great deal of voluntary work by dedicated members and minimum funding for technical support and promotion expenses. Consistent with Open Scholar’s asset lock, all further funding from foundations, grants or donations will be directly invested in the continued development and promotion of the project. The ultimate success of LIBRE depends on the preparedness of our academic community to embrace a new culture of open, transparent and independent research evaluation in order to break itself free from commercial interests unrelated to the true pursuit of knowledge.
Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of the Impact of Social Science blog, nor of the London School of Economics. Please review our Comments Policy if you have any concerns on posting a comment below.
About the Author
Pandelis Perakakisis a clinical psychophysiologist currently doing postdoctoral research in Experimental Economics. He is an active advocate of Green Open Access and proponent of a new research evaluation model termed “Author-guided Peer Review”. In 2012, together with physicist Michael Taylor and Biologist Varvara Trachana, he co-founded Open Scholar C.I.C. with the vision to promote a new culture of openness and transparency in scholarly communication. Follow the LIBRE Project on Twitter: @libreapp

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One Day Course on
The Effective Use of
Research Tools and Resource

Date	:	7 September 2013 (Saturday)
Venue	:	Wisma R&D Universiti Malaya
Time	:	8.30am – 5:30pm
Speaker	:	Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
Fee	:	RM180 (normal rate) - payment from 7 August 2013 until closing date
Medium	:	English

1. Introduction
The search can be time consuming and sometimes tedious task. How can make it easier? How do deal with situations such as:

“I just join as new postgraduate students and I am not sure how to do a literature search”

“I have been in research for some time now but I spend a lot of time to get the articles I want”

“I am sure I have downloaded the article but I am not able to find it”

“I wanted to write a new paper, how can I manage the references in the shortest possible time?”

“I have many references, some of my old papers, and some of my current research. Sometimes, they are so many that I can’t recall where I have kept them in my folders!”

“I have written an article and I am not able to find a proper Journal”

"I want to increase the citation of my papers, how do I do?"

We need an effective search strategy can save hours of wasted research time and provide a clear direction for your research. The benefits of attending this workshop are numerous and include learning how to change the direction of searching to discover and how to use more efficient the tools that are available through the Net.

2. Objective
The workshop seeks to serve the following objectives:

To help students who seek to reduce the search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use the "tools" that are available through the Net.*

To evaluate the types of literature that researchers will encounter.

To convert the information on the search for a written document.

To help researchers learn how to search and analyze the right journal to submit.

To promote their publication for further citation.

* For more information on this workshop, see the Research Tools web page.
These two session workshops in one day, aim to help research students in order to reduce research time by developing researcher knowledge to use more effectively the “Tools” which are available through the net. Research Tools is the skill to understand and use information technology tools to carry out research, including the use of discipline-related software and online resources.
The online “Research Tools” box is included over 700 tools. However, the speaker tries to introduce all necessary tools to postgraduate students in a simple and applicable way.
3. Who should attend?
The workshop is aimed at postgraduate students, young academics and researchers who have started his/her research and would like to increase the effectiveness of the research. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions. Participants should have the requisite computer skills prior to taking the workshop.
4. Tentative program

Time	Activity
8:30am	Registration
9:00am	Introduce “Research Tools” Box
9:15am	Developing a search strategy, Finding keyword
9:30am	Finding proper articles,
9:45am	Evaluate a paper/journal quality
10:00am	To do an effective literature search
10:30am	Tea break 1
11:00am	Keeping up-to-date (Alert system)
11:15am	Mind mapping tools
11:30am	The paraphrasing & editing tool
11:45am	Indexing desktop search tool
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	Avoid plagiarism
2:30pm	Organize the references (Reference management) tool
2:45pm	Target suitable journal
3:10pm	The impact factor-Journal ranking
3:15pm	Getting published
3:30pm	Tea break 2
4:00pm	Promote your publication to get more citation
4:30pm	H-index importance
5:00pm	Document-publishing tools
5:30pm	Q&A and closing

Speaker Biodata

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Nader Ale Ebrahim has a PhD degree from the University of Malaya. He has over 19 years experience in the technology management and new product development in different companies. Nader is active in sharing his research finding by conducting a series of workshops in UM, UiTM, UKM, UPM, MMU, IIUM and UTM. Nader developed a new method about using the “Research Tools” which help students who seek to reduce the search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use the "tools" that are available through the Net. He awarded as a Winner of Refer-a-Colleague Competition and received prizes from Thomson Reuters. Nader is well-known as the founder of “Research Tools” Box and developer of “Publication Marketing Tools”.

Registration fees cover refreshments and lunch. All fees must be fully paid before commencement of the course; otherwise participant will not be allowed to enter the lecture hall. Reservation/booking by fax or email of intending participants is acceptable with payment being forwarded before the closing date. If a place is reserved and the intended participants failed to attend the course on the date of the event the fee is to be settled in full. Completed registration form accompanied by evidence of payment slip should reach the organizer not later than
4 September 2013.

The fee paid is non-refundable. However substitution of participant(s) will be permitted. In view of the limited places available, intending participants are advised to send their registration as early as possible so as to avoid disappointment. The organizer reserves the right to alter or change the programme due to unforeseen circumstances. Every effort will be made to inform the registered participants of any changes.

If you require further details or clarifications kindly contact the organizer:

Malaysian Postgraduate Workshop Series (MPWS) : mpws.training@gmail.com

Juliana: + 6012 561 3420

Registration Form

Langkah 1: Butiran Pembayaran

Lakukan pembayaran berjumlah RM180 ke salah satu akaun dibawah menggunakan kaedah Fund Transfer atau ATM Transfer atau Cash Deposit:

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One Day Course on
Publication Marketing Tools “Enhancing Research Visibility and Improving Citations

Date	:	8 September 2013 (Sunday)
Venue	:	Wisma R&D Universiti Malaya
Time	:	8.30am – 5:30pm
Speaker	:	Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
Fee	:	RM180 (normal rate) - payment from 8 August 2013 until closing date
Medium	:	English

1. Introduction
Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals will be a halfway of receiving citation in the future. The rest of the way is advertising and disseminating the publications by using the proper “Research Tools”. Familiarity with the tools allows the researcher to increase his/her h-index in the short time. H-index shows the academicians influences in the specified field of research. Therefore, a person with higher levels of h-index has higher quality publications with high amount of citations.

The number of citations has over 32% share in academic ranking. Therefore, most of the scientists are looking for a method to increase their citation record. Nader developed and introduced a method for increasing the visibility of the research which directly effects on the number of citations. The following examples for two researchers are proving that publication marketing is working well. Both researchers have used the “Publication Marketing Tools” since the beginning of 2012.

2. Objective
The workshop seeks to serve the following objectives:

• To increase your paper's visibility, accessibility,

• To improve the quality of the article title and keywords

• To evaluate Journal measuring factors (like: Journal Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half Life, five Year Journal Impact Factor) before article submission.

• To search and analyze the right journal to submit.

• To disseminate the publications by using “Research Tools” in order to increase citation

• To trace the citation

3. Who should attend?
The workshop is aimed at professors, lecturers, postgraduate students, researchers who have published some papers and would like to increase their paper’s visibility and number of citations. The “publication marketing tools” learned from the workshop is useful across various research disciplines and research institutions. Participants should be familiar to use scientific databases and reference management software and definitely requisite computer skills prior to taking the workshop.
4. Tentative program

Time	Activity
8:30am	Registration
9:00am	Why publish and increase h-index?
9:15am	Times Higher Education World University Ranking system
9:30am	What the others have done?
9:45am	Definition of h-index and g-index and How to measure h-index?
10:00am	How to use “Research Tools” Mind Map
10:30am	Tea break 1
11:00am	Optimizing Your Article for Search Engines
11:15am	Selecting keywords
11:30am	Optimize Title/Abstract
11:45am	Target Suitable Journal
12:15pm	Types of publications and citations
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	Strategies to increase citations
2:30pm	Targeted advertising
2:45pm	Copyright issue
3:10pm	Online CV.
3:15pm	Select the best paper repository
3:30pm	Tea break 2
4:00pm	Document Publishing
4:30pm	Networking
5:00pm	Trace published article citation
5:30pm	Q&A and closing

Speaker Biodata

Registration fees cover refreshments and lunch. All fees must be fully paid before commencement of the course; otherwise participant will not be allowed to enter the lecture hall. Reservation/booking by fax or email of intending participants is acceptable with payment being forwarded before the closing date. If a place is reserved and the intended participants failed to attend the course on the date of the event the fee is to be settled in full. Completed registration form accompanied by evidence of payment slip should reach the organizer not later than
5 September 2013.

The fee paid is non-refundable. However substitution of participant(s) will be permitted. In view of the limited places available, intending participants are advised to send their registration as early as possible so as to avoid disappointment. The organizer reserves the right to alter or change the programme due to unforeseen circumstances. Every effort will be made to inform the registered participants of any changes.

If you require further details or clarifications kindly contact the organizer:

Malaysian Postgraduate Workshop Series (MPWS) : mpws.training@gmail.com

Juliana: + 6012 561 3420

Registration Form

Langkah 1: Butiran Pembayaran

Lakukan pembayaran berjumlah RM180 ke salah satu akaun dibawah menggunakan kaedah Fund Transfer atau ATM Transfer atau Cash Deposit:

Bank	No. Akaun	Pemilik Akaun
	12370002150102	MPWS Rich Resources
	562834625989	MPWS Rich Resources
	12029010068527	MPWS Rich Resources

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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team
European Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 297-307, 2009
Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of MalayaResearch Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM)
Date Posted: November 07, 2009
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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya; Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya

Shamsuddin Ahmed

University of Malaya (UM)

Zahari Taha

University of Malaya (UM)

August 11, 2009

European Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 297-307, 2009

Abstract:
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development, which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, through cooperation between suppliers and customers, service providers and scientific institutions to achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more commonplace. Literatures have shown that collaboration is as a meta-capability for innovation. By a comprehensive reviewing of literature this article after define virtual teams and its characteristics, addressing virtual environment innovation and the relationship to R&D activities. Finally conclude that innovation cannot be successful, unless the knowledge and information in the R&D project are effectively captured, shared and internalized by the R&D project’s virtual team members.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 11
Keywords: Virtual team, Literature review, Innovation, Research and Development
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Date posted: November 7, 2009

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Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari, Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team (August 11, 2009). European Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 297-307, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1501442

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8	332	Large-Scale Open Innovation: Open Source vs. Patent Pools Thierry Rayna, Ludmila Striukova, ESG Management School, University College London, Date posted to database: November 21, 2010 Last Revised: November 26, 2010
9	304	Locating Innovation: The Endogeneity of Technology, Organizational Structure and Financial Contracting Ronald J. Gilson, Stanford Law School, Date posted to database: October 22, 2009 Last Revised: November 19, 2009
10	285	Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya, University of Malaya (UM), University of Malaya (UM), Date posted to database: November 7, 2009 Last Revised: May 9, 2013

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AncaDraghici (Department of Management, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania), Cosmina Carmen Aldea (Department of Management, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania) and George Draghici (Department of Mechanical Engineering, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania)

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Actual business process activities are done in virtual space by teams that are building, exploiting an adequate collaborative environment. This is defined mainly by the specific information and communication technology (ICT) enabled by Internet/Extranet/Intranet. The ICT tools functionalities have been developed to better satisfy virtual teams requirements related to knowledge management activities. In this context, this article presents a brief state-of-the-art of virtual teams’ definitions and characteristics that reinforce them with efficiency-effectiveness. Foreword, because of the large variety of ICT tools available to support virtual collaboration, the authors proposed an approach for the decision making process of choosing the adequate software solution based on the particular needs and requirement determined by the collaborative environment specificity. Assisting this, there will be analyzed the specific software tool’s main functionalities that are correlated with the virtual teams requirements. This is the main step for the decision making process approach definition in order to choose the adequate software solution, using ELECTRE method (decision under conditions of certainty).

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Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2009) Innovation and R & D activities in virtual team. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development, which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, through cooperation between suppliers and customers, service providers and scientific institutions to achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R\&D and innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more commonplace. Literature's have shown that collaboration is as a meta-capability for innovation. By a comprehensive reviewing of literature this article after define virtual teams and its characteristics, addressing virtual environment innovation and the relationship to R&D activities. Finally conclude that innovation cannot be successful, unless the knowledge and information in the R&D project are effectively captured, shared and internalized by the R&D project?s virtual team members.

Item Type:	Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:	Virtual team, Literature review, Innovation, Research and Development
Subjects:	JOURNALS Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:	7812
Deposited By:	Ale Ebrahim, Nader
Deposited On:	16 Dec 2011 00:01
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2011 00:01

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Computer Science and Information Systems / ComSIS

2011, vol. 8, br. 1, str. 1-26

jezik rada: engleski
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doi:10.2298/CSIS100127033R

VPN solutions and network monitoring to support virtual teams work in virtual enterprises

(naslov ne postoji na srpskom)

Roşu Marius Sebastian^a, Drăgoi George^b

^aSpecial Telecommunications Service, Information Technology Department, Bucharest, Romania
^bPolytechnic University of Bucharest, PREMINV Research Center, Bucharest, Romania

e-adresa: sebastianrosu@stsnet.ro, gdragoi@mix.mmi.pub.ro

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(ne postoji na srpskom)

In order to be competitive enterprises continuously implement ICT strategies & architectures to improve manufacture, research, products quality, sales, services and costs control. All large enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective: profits. The virtual enterprise and the virtual team's concepts are discussed in this article. This work analyzes the network architecture for geographically dispersed enterprises (seen as virtual enterprises) as support for virtual project development by virtual teams work. In addition, the paper presents an enterprise networks monitoring solution using open source software (OSS).

Ključne reči

virtual enterprise; virtual team; enterprise network; virtual network; network management

	Reference
	*** (2009) OSPF design guide 2008-2009. Cisco Systems Inc, www.cisco.com Dec. 2009
	Akgun, A., Lynn, G., Yilmaz, C. (2006) Learning process in new product development teams and effects on product success: A socio-cognitive perspective. Industrial Marketing Management, 35(2): 210-224
	Ale, E.N., Ahmed, S., Taha, Z. (2009) Innovation and R&D activities in virtual team. European Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 34, br. 3, 297-307, Literature review

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Experience

Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, IPPP, University of Malaya

2013-Present

Research Fellow

• Establish and introduce the publication marketing “Research Tools”; • Develop and promote online tutorials for “Research Tools”; • Conduct workshop on “Research Tools” that will increase University Citation; • Provide guidance and instruction on the use of “Research Tools”; and • Promote the practice of depositing publications in repositories.

Independent Researcher

08 /2012-Present

Technology Management Consultant, "Research Tools" Adviser

I have conducted a series of workshop on the application of “Research Tools” in almost all public universities in Malaysia. “Research Tools” reduce the search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use the "tools" that are available through the Net.

University of Malaya

01 /2008-08 /2012

PhD candidate

Universiti Malaya, or UM, Malaysia's oldest university, is situated on a 750 acre (309 hectare) campus in the southwest of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
It was established in April 1949 in Singapore with the merger of the King Edward VII College of Medicine (founded in 1905) and Raffles College (founded in 1928).

United Kingdom - Malaysia - Ireland Engineering Science Conference 2011 (UMIES 2011)

11 /2010-07 /2011

Paper & Proceedings Committee

United Kingdom - Malaysia - Ireland Engineering Science Conference 2011 (UMIES 2011) is open to Malaysian postgraduate engineering students worldwide as well as foreign postgraduate students who are currently studying in Malaysia. UMIES 2011,which runs on 12th & 13th of July in University Malaya, aims to provide an excellent platform to Malaysian students to share and exchange research findings and ideas. The objectives of the conference are as follows:

To increase the involvement of Malaysian students in an internationally recognized conference.
To promote the value of knowledge sharing and networking among Malaysians as well as their international counterparts.
To strengthen the bond among the academic institutions of three countries in sharing new ideas and strengthen future research activities.

The conference will be divided into 7 themes in engineering sciences and related fields:

Chemical, Bio process &amp; Food Engineering.
Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering.
Mechanical, Aeronautical &amp; Material engineering.
Manufacturing, Industrial &amp; Design engineering.
Biomedical &amp; Bio-mechanics Engineering.
Electronic &amp; Electrical Engineering.
Computer Science &amp; Information Technology.

The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems (APIEMS 2010)

01 /2010-12 /2010

Paper and Proceeding committee member

The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems (APIEMS) Conference and the 14th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Foundation for Production Research hold on December 7-10, 2010 in Melaka, Malaysia. The Conference was hosted by Universiti Malaya (UM) in collaboration with the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). These conferences were also hold in conjunction with the 3rd AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference in Manufacturing Engineering (AUN/SEED-Net-RC ManuE 2010).

The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines

03 /2003-03 /2007

Vice-Chairman

I and some of my colleagues become founding father of The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines (RDS) which has more than 1400 companies as members from different industrial sectors. RDS with its members is the holder of around 20% of Iran’s GDP. Major duties of the RDS are as follows:

Identification of the research capabilities and capacities of the research and development units of the industrial centers and helping the members to benefit from their research potential abilities
Coordination among research & development units in order to compile executive approaches in order to choose suitable technology, compilation and definition of the executive principles needed for transfer of technology based on industrial requirements of the society, cooperation, and seeking for improved approaches needed for attraction and naturalization of the transferred technologies.

The society also aims at nurturing the R&D activities of its member companies by offering state-of-the-art training services by organizing industry-specific courses, industrial visits, and holding annual conferences and workshops.
Member of the scientific and organizing committees of the conferences held by the society.

Institute of Knowledges and New Technologies Development (TDF)

2005-2006

Board Member

To be involved in several projects that can utilize my over 16 years experiences in the following fields:

Establishing R&D department in different companies.
Project director and project coordinator.
Knowledge based systems implementation in R&D department.
Experience in organizing and chairing conferences regarding R&D
Simultaneously successfully managed R&D projects driving engineering, planning, QA, and shipments to manufacturing.

Iran Khodro Diesel Co.

01 /2003-08 /2006

Engineering Deputy

IKD is the leader and a world class commercial vehicle manufacturer in the Middle East; under the license of Mercedes Benz Germany. The company's total annual turn-over reaches to $1.1bn.
I was in charge of coordinating and leading new projects in Iran Khodro Diesel. Here is a list of Some of the projects that I was involved when I worked at IKD:
• Project Coordinator of License Agreement Project between IKD and Daimler Chrysler for truck technology transfer which was led to produce knowledge based prototyping and mass production of new Daimler Chrysler’s products(Actros 3331, Actros 1844, Axor 2628, Axor 1935, Axor 3335) • Project director of "Conversion of OM457 Diesel Engine to a CNG Engine" with cooperation of Spanish designer & developer company IDIADA. • Production of new CNG buses • Project manager of selection, sampling, testing and installation of bus air conditioner system. • Directed projects relating to sampling and mass production of Chorus CNG minibus with converted Hyundai engine • Directed projects relating to facility layout planning of truck production hall in order to increase quality and quantity of production • Projects director of increase bus production capacity and commissioning of SC457 and Mega-trans bus production line • Cooperated in the project for minimizing transportation, scraps as well as organization of company warehouses and containers. • Directed projects relating to bus/truck manufacturing plant layout in Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Iraq • Directed projects relating to increase of bus/truck paint production Capacity

TKC (Toseé Khodro Car)

02 /2003-07 /2005

Chairman and Engineering Deputy

The company affiliated to Iran Khodro Diesel (IKD) which is responsible for designing and prototyping of new product for IKD.
• Project Leader in “ New Truck Design and Production with IKD Brand” project (TKC as Engineering, Research, and Development company for IKD has launched this project with a British company MIRA ltd. as main contractor mutually to design and produce a new truck with IKD brand)
• IT project manager (License Agreement Project) for truck technology transfer from Mercedes Benz Company.
• Directed various projects in connection with design and manufacturing of new buses and trucks. • Directed various projects in connection with increasing of emission standard level of diesel engines. • Directed various projects in connection with changing the engines of buses, minibuses and trucks to gas-burning engines.

MEGA Motor

07 /2001-01 /2003

Vice Engineering Deputy responsible for R&D Department

One of Saipa Industries Group’s subsidiaries for vehicle’s Engine, Gearbox, and Axle manufacturing.
Be involved in different project as a project manager and co-operate responsible to manage the following items: o Work Breakdown Structure o Scheduling o Budget and Cost planning o Tracking and monitor the deviation, deliverable with regard to gateways and milestones o Evaluating the Reports
• Manager of the project titled "Increasing the Power of Pride Automobile Engine by 10%"
• Manager of the project titled "Solving the Problem of Pride Sedan Piston Fracture"
• Executive of the project titled "Changing Nissan & Pride Engines to Bi-fuel Engines (CNG)"
• Co-operator of the project titled "Changing Nissan Engine to Injection-Burning Engine (M24IA)"
• Co-operator of the project titled "Optimization of Pride Sedan Gear Ratio"
• Co-operator of the project titled "Identification of Gearbox Sound/Vibration Problems using NVH Tools"
• Co-operator of the project for obtaining EURO II Emission Standard for Pride engine
• Co-operator of the project titled “Installation of Air-Conditioning System on Junior Nissan Pickup”
• Co-operator of the project titled “Installation of Catalyst Converter on Patrol Automobile and Injection-Burning Engines”
• Co-operator of the project titled “Design and Manufacturing of Caravan Sedan New axel”
• Co-operator of the project titled “Preparation of Zero Dimension Engine Simulator Software System”
• Co-operator of the project titled “Analysis of Flow in Input Manifold of Pride Sedan Engine”
• Manager of the project titled “Selection Power Train of New SPC5 Automobile”

Azmayesh Industries Group

01 /2000-07 /2001

Research and Development Division Director

Home Appliances Manufacturer. Household Refrigerators And Freezers. Manufacture, marketing and export of household appliances, including laundry equipment, vacuum cleaners, fridges and freezers, air-conditioning and heating equipment Azmayesh has two production plants in Tehran and Shiraz
• Manager of the project titled “Reverse Design and Manufacturing of Gas Cooler for Bus (Sutruck model, 28000 Kcal)
• Preparation of the feasibility study for bus cooler manufacturing in Iran
• Implementation of Quality Management System

Charkheshgar

06 /1998-01 /2000

'Research and Development' and 'Engineering' Director

Gearbox manufacture under license ZF Germany
In Charkheshgar Company, I established a research department and executed three successful projects which promote the company’s sales.
• Executive of the project titled “Reverse Engineering and Manufacturing of Steering Box for Pride Automobile”
• Manager of the project titled “Manufacturing and Equipment of Motor Powers Engineering Design/Research Center”
• Project team member of “Nissan Junior Gearbox Reverse Engineering”
• Implementation of Quality Management System complied with ISO 9000-2000 and renew the certification, include of : o Document updating o Non-complying detection and clearance o Organizing internal audit. o Quality management manual o Quality plan o Procedures o Work instruction o Forms and technical documents o Organizing QMS leading committee and meetings o Internal audit o Non-complying detection and clearance • Project team member in implementation of the Suggestions System

Iranpouya Co. (General Steel)

11 /1996-01 /1998

Research and Development Division Director

Home appliances and aluminum profile manufacturer.
• Team member of the project titled “Design and Manufacturing of Refrigerator with Interior Condenser“
• Design and prototyping of refrigerator with ice maker, freezer and refrigerator with panel evaporator
• Established a laboratory for testing refrigeration units according to ISO standards
• Optimized energy consumption in production processes
• Served as an executive and technical member of a team to replace the CFC coolant gas (Freon 12) of refrigeration systems by an ozone-friendly HFC gas

Faculty of Engineering, Tehran University (including Mechanics, Metallurgy and Sampling Workshop)

01 /1993-06 /1997

Head of Technology Department including Mechanics, Metallurgy and Prototyping Workshop

• Supervisor of the final part of the project titled “Machine Components Computer-Aided Design”
• Supervisor of the project titled “Design of Date Washing and Drying Cycle ”
• Design of Greenhouse Mechanics Division of Gorgan Agricultural Research Center
• Director of Mechanics Division and commissioning of cultivation rooms at Rafsanjan Agricultural Research Center
• Design and construction of fixed temperature rooms at Oroumieh Agricultural Research Center, director of Mechanics Division
• Manager of project titled “Thermal Recycling of Casting Sands Containing Resin Glues”
• Design and supervising the construction of Phytotron Mechanics Division at Maragheh Agricultural Research Center
• Commissioning of fully-automatic silk screen printing machine
• Design and manufacturing of laboratory instrument for determining the percentage of straw in grains

Education

Universiti Malaya

2007-2011

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.),Industrial Engineering - Technology Management

Faculty of Engineering ,University of Tehran

1992-1995

Master of Science,Mechanical Engineering (Energy Conversion)

Faculty of Engineering , University of Tehran

1988-1992

Bachelor of Science,Mechanical Engineering (Fluids & Heat Transfer)

Honors

2010: Second prize of the EPD 2010 challenge 2005: Selected Researcher Award 1995: Master’s Degree Top Student Award 1992: Bachelor’s Degree Top Student Award

Interests

Attributions for Performance in Virtual Teams, Collaboration Technology, Collaborative Systems, Conceptual Modelling, Concurrent Engineering, Engineering Product Design, Industrial Engineering, New Product Development, Operation Management, Operations Research, Product Design, R&D Management, Research Methodology, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises, Tacit Knowledge Transfer Within Virtual Teams, Technology Management, Virtual R&D teams, Virtual Teams

Associations

IACSIT, SOCOLNET, UMIES, APIEMS, UMISA, UMISCA, Open Scholar

Languages

Persian
English

Publications

Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs

2012

Advanced Materials Research, 433-440, 1653-1659.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Ahmed, Shamsuddin, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Taha, Zahari, Engr. Dr. Md. Abdul Wazed ·http://ssrn.com/abstract=1999447

Abstract: This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find an answer for a question “Is there any relationship between company size, Internet connection facility and virtuality?”. The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the infrastructure usage is less. SMEs now have the necessary technology to begin the implementation process of collaboration tools to reduce research and development (R&D) time, costs and increase productivity. So, the manager of R&D should take the potentials of virtual teams into account.
Cite as: ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S., ABDUL RASHID, S. H., TAHA, Z. & WAZED, M. A. 2012. Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs. Advanced Materials Research, 433-440, 1653-1659.

The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs

06 /2011

IEMS, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 109-114, June 2011·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1804726

The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high potential for the growth of SMEs. Due to the fast-growing complexity of new products coupled with new emerging opportunities of virtual teams, a collaborative approach is believed to be the future trend. This research explores the effectiveness of virtuality in SMEs’ virtual R&D teams. Online questionnaires were emailed to Malaysian manufacturing SMEs and 74 usable questionnaires were received, representing a 20.8 percent return rate. In order to avoid biases which may result from pre-suggested answers, a series of open-ended questions were retrieved from the experts. This study was focused on analyzing an open-ended question, whereby four main themes were extracted from the experts’ recommendations regarding the effectiveness of virtual teams for the growth and performance of SMEs. The findings of this study would be useful to product design managers of SMEs in order to realize the key advantages and significance of virtual R&D teams during the new product development (NPD) process. This in turn, leads to increased effectiveness in new product development's procedure.

Critical Factors for New Product Developments in SMEs Virtual Team

09 /2010

African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2247-2257, September 4, 2010·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1688931

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in the past decade, so this turbulent environment requires new methods and techniques to bring successful new products to the marketplace. Virtual team can be a solution to answer the requested demand. However, literature have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general, whereas NPD in SME’s virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. This paper aims to bridge this gap by first reviewing the NPD and its relationship with virtuality and then identifies the critical factors of NPD in virtual teams. The statistical method was utilized to perform the required analysis of data from the survey. The results were achieved through factor analysis at the perspective of NPD in some Malaysian and Iranian manufacturing firms (N = 191). The 20 new product development factors were grouped into five higher level constructs. It gives valuable insight and guidelines, which hopefully will help managers of firms in developing countries to consider the main factors in NPD.

Virtual R&D teams and SMEs growth: A comparative study between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs

09 /2010

African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2368-2379, September 2010·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1688934

This paper explores potential advantages of using virtual teams for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on various aspects of virtual teams. Based on the standing of the pertinent literatures, attempt has been made to study the aspects by online survey method in Iran and Malaysia. In both countries, SMEs play an important role in their economies, employments, and capacity building. Virtual R&D team can be one of the means to increase SMEs efficiency and competitiveness in their local as well as global markets. In this context, surveys have been conducted to evaluate the effects of virtuality to the growth of SMEs. The study addresses some differences between two countries in engaging virtual research and development (R&D) teams in their SMEs. It is observed that there is a significant difference between the SMEs turnover that employed virtual team and that did not employ the virtual team. The way for further studies and recommend improvements are proposed.

Work Together...When Apart Challenges and What is Need for Effective Virtual Teams

10 /2010

Journal of Information, Knowledge and Research in Business Management and Administration, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-3, October 2010·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, R. R. Raval, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1680850

Increasingly competitive global markets and accelerating technological changes have increased the need for people to contact via electronic medium to have daily updates, the people those who could not able to meet face to face every day. Those who contact via electronic medium i.e. Virtual Team, are having number of benefit but to achieve these potential benefits, however, leaders need to overcome liabilities inherent in the lack of direct contact among team members and managers. Team members may not naturally know how to interact effectively across space and time. By this paper author try to throw some lights on the challenges that virtual team faces and try to elaborate what is needed for Virtual Team.

SMEs; Virtual Research and Development (R&D) Teams and New Product Development: A Literature Review

07 /2010

International Journal of the Physical Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 916-930·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1674011

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a great deal of research into the diverse characteristic of virtual R&D teams in SMEs. This article provides a comprehensive literature review on different aspects of virtual R&D teams collected from the reputed publications. The purpose of the literature review is to provide an outline on the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the rationale and relevance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R&D team for SMEs and new product development (NPD) has been examined. It concludes with identifying the gaps and feebleness in the existing literatures and calls for future research in this area. It is argued to form of virtual R&D team deserves consideration at top level management for venturing into the new product development within SMEs.

Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review

12 /2009

Scientific Research and Essays, Vol. 4, No. 13, pp. 1575–1590·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1530904

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Towards that end, research and development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team could be a viable option. However, literature shows that virtual R & D teaming in SMEs is still at its infancy. This article provides a comprehensive literature review on different aspects of virtual R & D teams collected from the reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview on the structure and dynamics of R & D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and SMEs has been examined. It concludes with the identification of the gaps in the existing literature's and calls for future research. It is argued that setting-up an infrastructure for virtual R & D team in SMEs still requires a large amount of engineering efforts and deserves consideration at top level management.

Virtual Teams for New Product Development: An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers

10 /2009

European Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 109-123·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1501445

New interaction tools such as internet allow companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently, engineers also get more expertise in diminutive time frames. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition process. The present knowledge-economy era is characterized by short product life-cycles. Virtual R&D teams may reduce time-to-market, make available a large pool of new product know-how and provide greater flexibilities, which are the key success factors in a competitive market. This comprehensive review contains almost 100 references and covers the recent literature with emphasis on the topic. The review has focused on authentic and reputed publications and extracts the results. This article presents the type of virtual teams and their main features and explains how virtual R&D team can play a prominent role in developing new products. The article is evolved future study guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process. Management of virtual R&D teams in new product development (NPD) processes in an innovative, effective and efficient is of a high importance, but the issue has been poorly addressed in the previous studies. Findings show that virtual R&D team provides valuable input for new product development and R&D engineers are able to attain virtual experience.

Virtual Teams: A Literature Review

2009

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 2653-2669·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1501443

In the competitive market, virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time and space barriers. Nowadays, companies are heavily investing in virtual team to enhance their performance and competitiveness. Despite virtual teams growing prevalence, relatively little is known about this new form of team. Hence the study offers an extensive literature review with definitions of virtual teams and a structured analysis of the present body of knowledge of virtual teams. First, we distinguish virtual teams from conventional teams, different types of virtual teams to identify where current knowledge applies. Second, we distinguish what is needed for effective virtual team considering the people, process and technology point of view and underlying characteristics of virtual teams and challenges they entail. Finally, we have identified and extended 12 key factors that need to be considered, and describes a methodology focused on supporting virtual team working, with a new approach that has not been specifically addressed in the existing literature and some guide line for future research extracted.

Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team

2009

European Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 297-307·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1501442

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development, which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, through cooperation between suppliers and customers, service providers and scientific institutions to achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more commonplace. Literatures have shown that collaboration is as a meta-capability for innovation. By a comprehensive reviewing of literature this article after define virtual teams and its characteristics, addressing virtual environment innovation and the relationship to R&D activities. Finally conclude that innovation cannot be successful, unless the knowledge and information in the R&D project are effectively captured, shared and internalized by the R&D project’s virtual team members.

Modified Stage-Gate: A Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development Process

12 /2009

African Journal of Marketing Management, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 211-219·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1522848

In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in the competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products faster. In response to these pressing needs, there should be some new approach compatible in flexible circumstances. This paper presents a solution based on the popular Stage-Gate system, which is closely linked with virtual team approach. Virtual teams can provide a platform to advance the knowledge-base in a company and thus to reduce time-to-market. This article introduces conceptual product development architecture under a virtual team umbrella. The paper describes all the major aspects of new product development (NPD), NPD process and its relationship with virtual teams, Stage-Gate system finally presents a modified Stage-Gate system to cope up with the changing needs. It also provides the guidelines for the successful implementation of virtual teams in new product development.

Process Construct in the Virtual R&D Teams

12 /2012

Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Conference 2012·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Zahari Taha, Marjan Mohammadjafari ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2216402

Abstract: literature proves the importance of the process role in the effectiveness of virtual research and development (R&D) teams for new product development (NPD). However, the factors that make process construct in a virtual R&D team are still unclear. The manager of virtual R&D teams for NPD does not know which items of process should be used. To address the gap and answer the question, the study presents a set of factors that make a process construct. The proposed construct modified by finding of the field survey. We empirically examine the relationship between construct, dimensions and its factors by employing the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A measurement model built base on the 13 preliminary factors that extracted from literature review. The result shows 9 factors out of 13 factors maintaining to make process construct. These factors can be grouped into two dimensions namely generating report and collaborative system. The findings can help new product development managers of enterprises to concentrate in the main factors for leading an effective virtual R&D team. In addition, it provides a guideline for future research.

Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams

01 /2012

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 5, 9-14.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Ahmed, Shamsuddin, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Taha, Zahari ·http://ssrn.com/abstract=1999445

Abstract: Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of virtual R&D teams for new product development does not know which type of technology should be used. Approach: To address the gap and answer the question, the study presents a set of factors that make a technology construct. The proposed construct modified by finding of the field survey (N = 240). We empirically examine the relationship between construct and its factors by employing the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A measurement model built base on the 19 preliminary factors that extracted from literature review. The result shows 10 factors out of 19 factors maintaining to make technology construct. Results: These 10 technology factors can be grouped into two constructs namely Web base communication and Web base data sharing. The findings can help new product development managers of enterprises to concentrate in the main factors for leading an effective virtual R&D team. In addition, it provides a guideline for software developers as well. Conclusion: The second and third generation technologies are now more suitable for developing new products through virtual R&D teams.
Cite as: ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S., ABDUL RASHID, S. H. & TAHA, Z. 2012. Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams. American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 5, 9-14.

Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development

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Scientific Research and Essay, 7, 1971-1985.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2085508

Abstract: At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey. From literature review, the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams are identified and these factors are modified using a field survey. The relationship between knowledge workers (people), process and technology in virtual teams is explored in this study. The results of the study suggest that technology and process are tightly correlated and need to be considered early in virtual teams. The use of software as a service, web solution, report generator and tracking system should be incorporated for effectiveness virtual teams.
Cite as: ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S., ABDUL RASHID, S. H. & TAHA, Z. 2012. Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development. Scientific Research and Essay, 7, 1971-1985.

Virtual Teams and Management Challenges

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Academic Leadership Journal, 9, 1-7·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2042117

Introduction:
Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes business more competitive. Virtual teams are growing in popularity [1] and many organizations have responded to their dynamic environments by introducing virtual teams. Additionally, the rapid development of new communication technologies such as the Internet has accelerated this trend so that today, most of the larger organization employs virtual teams to some degree [2]. A growing number of flexible and adaptable organizations have explored the virtual environment as one means of achieving increased responsiveness [3]. Howells et al. [4] state that the shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working has become more commonplace. Based on conventional information technologies and Internet-based platforms virtual environments may be used to sustain companies’ progress through virtual interaction and communication.
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Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

2011

Academic Leadership Journal, 9, 1-5.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2042160

Introduction:
With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4].
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Process Construct in the Virtual R&D Teams

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Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Conference 2012·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim ·http://eprints.um.edu.my/6280/1/T4F5.pdf

literature proves the importance of the process role in the effectiveness of virtual research and development (R&D) teams for new product development (NPD). However, the factors that make process construct in a virtual R&D team are still unclear. The manager of virtual R&D teams for NPD does not know which items of process should be used. To address the gap and answer the question, the study presents a set of factors that make a process construct. The proposed construct modified by finding of the field survey. We empirically examine the relationship between construct, dimensions and its factors by employing the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A measurement model built base on the 13 preliminary factors that extracted from literature review. The result shows 9 factors out of 13 factors maintaining to make process construct. These factors can be grouped into two dimensions namely generating report and collaborative system. The findings can help new product development managers of enterprises to concentrate in the main factors for leading an effective virtual R&D team. In addition, it provides a guideline for future research.

Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

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Asian Social Science 9, 176-182.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, masood fooladi, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Maryam Farhadi, Arezoo Aghaei chadegani, hadi farhadi ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2257552

Abstract: Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers’ behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor.

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

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Asian Social Science 9, 18-26.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Arezoo Aghaei chadegani, Hadi Salehi هادی صالحی, Melor Md Yunus, hadi farhadi, masood fooladi, Maryam Farhadi ·http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2257540

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Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.

Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?

03 /2013

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 7(4), 198-202.·Authors: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Arezoo Aghaei chadegani, hadi farhadi, Hadi Salehi هادی صالحی, maryam farhadi, masood fooladi, Melor Md Yunus ·http://www.ajbasweb.com/ajbas/2013/March/198-202.pdf

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h-index retrieved by citation indexes (Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science) is used to measure the scientific performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily available and may be used for performance measures of scientists, and for recruitment decisions. The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between the outputs and results from these three citation databases namely Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science based upon the h-index of a group of highly cited researchers (Nobel Prize winner scientist). The purposive sampling method was adopted to collect the required data. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the h-index between three citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science; the Google scholar h-index was more than the h-index in two other databases. It was also concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between h-indices based on Google scholar and Scopus. The citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science may be useful for evaluating h-index of scientists but they have some limitations as well.

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The purpose of this research was to explore the nature of the Stage-Gate®process in the context of innovative projects that not only vary in new product technology (i.e., radical versus incremental technology) but that also involve significant new product development technology (i.e., new virtual teaming hardware-software systems). Results indicate that firms modify their formal development regimes to improve the efficiency of this process while not significantly sacrificing product novelty...

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University
1418 Wiggins Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5341, USA

Design and optimization of intake manifold
	Pre-design of intake manifold is conducted based on 1D models in order to: 1- Maximize the air flow rate into cylinders to maximize the volumetricefficiency and output torque 2- Provide cylinders with equal amount of air (or air/fuel mixture) to have a smooth engine performance with minimum vibration and noise
The 1D model of the intake manifold including plenum and runners and effective dimensions
	The initial shape of the intake manifold is determined through considering the packaging of the engine compartment and with respect to the packaging of other components of the intake system such as intake pipe and throttle body. The initial dimensions are based on 1D model, which is not accurate enough toensure the equal flow to each cylinder. Furthermore, 1D models are not able to predict details of the flow through the manifold such as separation and turbulent characteristics. As a result, a design modification (or optimization) is conducted after pre-design, using a sophisticated 3D CFD model developed based on the initial shape of the intake manifold, resulting from pre-design and packaging.
The 3D CFD model of the intake manifold showing the interior of the intake manifold in a MPFI engine including plenum and runners
	The grid generation and grid independence study were performed for the developed model. The grid is unstructured due to the shape of the intake manifold. A benchmark of turbulence models was also conducted using 1-equation, 2-equation and Reynolds Stress models prior to performing the transient simulation of flow through intake manifold for an entire cycle of the engine.
The unstructured tetrahedral grid, generated for the intake manifold
	The pressure at the end of runners (i.e. outlet boundaries of the manifold or inlet ports) changes dynamically depending on engine rpm and the valve arrangement (i.e. combustion arrangement or firing order). There are different ways to obtain such pressure variation and adopt it into the CFD model as the boundary conditions. Thermodynamic (1D) simulation of the engine (including intake, combustion, exhaust and valvetrain) can yield such pressure variations. For optimization purposes, the pressure can be measured experimentally using pressure transducers and high speed data acquisition systems. Such pressure variation is applied to the CFD model as a transient boundary condition.
Variation of pressure at the end of the runners (i.e. inlet ports of the cylinders) at 4000 rpm
	CFD analysis results elucidate details of flow behavior through runners (such as flow separation, secondary flows, reverse flows, etc.) and the total mass flow rate can be integrated for each cylinder. Based on CFD results several modifications will be proposed to enhance the intake manifold and the flow characteristics through the cylinders.
Flow pathlines (colored by particle ID) during the intake of cylinder #3 at 4000 rpm

Contours of velocity magnitude at selected time instants during the entire cycle of engine operation

References: [1] M. Moeini, N. Ale-Ebrahim, (2003) “Three dimensional solution of turbulent fluid flow through the intake manifold of MPFI Engine,” 4th International Conference of R&D Centers, Tehran, Iran, 2003. [2] M. Moeini, (2002) “Numerical investigation of 3D steady and transient flow through the intake manifold of I.C. engine,”The 17th Internal Combustion Engines Symposium, Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers, Tokyo, Japan, JSAE 20026084, Oct 9-11. [3] B. Farhanieh, M. Moeini, (2002) “Numerical solution of steady and transient fluid flow through the intake manifold using finite volume method,” 2nd International Symposium of Internal Combustion Engines, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2002.
The numerical simulations were conducted using Fluent 6.0, Fluent Inc., 2001.

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    author = {Nader Ale Ebrahim and Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha},
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a great deal of research into the diverse characteristic of virtual R&D teams in SMEs. This article provides a comprehensive literature review on different aspects of virtual R&D teams collected from the reputed publications. The purpose of the literature review is to provide an outline on the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the rationale and relevance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R&D team for SMEs and new product development (NPD) has been examined. It concludes with identifying the gaps and feebleness in the existing literature's and calls for future research in this area. It is argued to form of virtual R&D team deserves consideration at top level management for venturing into the new product development within SMEs.

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Title:	Exploring the characteristics of innovation alliances of Dutch Biotechnology SMEs and their policy implications
Authors:	Garbade, Philipp J.P. Omta, S.W.F. (Onno) Fortuin, Frances T.J.M.
Authors (Email):	Omta, S.W.F. (Onno) (Onno.Omta@wur.nl)
Keywords:	knowledge transfer human resources exchange biotechnology alliances
JEL Codes:	O32
Issue Date:	2013-04
Abstract:	Policy makers are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that R&D intensive SMEs play a pivotal role in providing sustainable economic growth by maintaining a high rate of innovation. To compensate for their financial vulnerability, these SMEs increasingly conduct innovation in alliances. This paper aims to explore the impact of different alliance characteristics on the performance of Dutch biotechnology SMEs. The conceptual model was tested using a sample of 18 biotech SMEs reporting about 40 alliances. The main findings indicate that alliance performance is positively related to the level of complementarity, the cognitive distance and tacit knowledge transfer by the human resources exchanges. Policy makers are recommended to support innovation alliances by providing the infrastructure in which alliances can flourish, e.g. through stimulating the foundation of cluster organizations that can function as innovation brokers. These cluster organizations can provide network formation, demand articulation, internationalization and innovation process support to their member companies and can act as a go-between among alliance partners. As part of the innovation process support activities, they can organize special workshops for biotech SMEs on how to successfully behave in an innovation alliance.
URI:	http://purl.umn.edu/149230
Identifiers:	ISSN 2280-6180 (print) ISSN 2280-6172 (online)
Institution/Association:	Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA)>Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal>Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2013
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Allegrezza , Serge and Ben Aoun-Peltier, Leila and Dubrocard, Anne and Larue, Solène (2013): Access to finance of independent SMEs in Luxembourg. The consequences of the crisis.
Allen, Franklin and Jackowicz, Krzysztof and Kowalewski, Oskar (2013): The effects of foreign and government ownership on bank lending behavior during a crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. Published in: Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 13-25 (30. June 2013)
Allred , Sarah and Duffy, Sean and Smith, John (2013): Cognitive Load and Strategic Sophistication.
Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge (2013): Taxes, Transfers and the Macroeconomy.
Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge and Leal Ordonez, Julio (2013): The Elasticity of Informality to Taxes and Transfers.
Alqatawni, Tahsen (2013): The Relationship Conflict between Venture Capital and Entrepreneur. Published in: Social Science Research Network (SSRN) , Vol. 12, No. 2289585 (3. July 2013)
Alqatawni, Tahsen (2013): Unethical dilemmas in derivatives practice. Published in: Social Science Electronic Publishing , Vol. 9, No. 2271445 (29. May 2013)
Alshyab, Nooh (2013): The Political Economy of Reform and Development of the Washington Consensus.
Altunok, Fatih and Oduncu, Arif (2013): Firm Leverage and the Financial Crisis.
Alvi, Mohsin and Siddiqui, Bilal (2013): An Empirical Analysis of New Product by Using Models of Market Research (2013).
Alvi, Mohsin and Surani, Mehreen and Hirani, Saneea (2013): The Effect of Performance Evaluation on Employee’s Job Satisfaction in Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (2013).
Alwasiak , Stanislaw and Lewandowska-Kalina, Monika and Kalina, Lech and Kowalewski, Oskar and Mozdzen, Michal and Rybinski, Krzysztof (2013): What Determines State Capture in Poland?
Amaidi, Aicha (2013): Mondialisation et inégalités des salaires : cas de la Tunisie.
Amberger, Korie (2013): The Role of Capital on Noise Shocks.
Amegashie, J. Atsu (2013): Consumers' Complaints, the Nature of Corruption, and Social Welfare.
Anderson, R. Warren and Johnson, Noel D and Koyama, Mark (2013): From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800.
Andrés, Antonio R and Asongu, Simplice A (2013): Global dynamic timelines for IPRs harmonization against software piracy. Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 1, No. 33 (28. March 2013): pp. 874-880.
Anikin, Vasiliy (2013): Mode of socio-economic development and occupational structure: the case of contemporary Russia. Published in: Transition Studies Review , Vol. 19, No. 4 (1. March 2013): pp. 397-415.
Anikin, Vasiliy (2013): Motivation to Work in Russia: The Case of Protracted Transition from Noncompetitive to Competitive System. Published in: The Journal of Comparative Economic Studies (JCES) , Vol. 8, (March 2013): pp. 35-60.
Ankita, Ankita Shukla and Kaushal, Kaushalendra Kumar and Abhishek, Abhishek Singh (2013): Association between obesity and selected morbidities: A study of BRICS.
Ansink, Erik and Bouma, Jetske (2013): Framed field experiments with heterogeneous frame connotation.
Antonakakis, Nikolaos (2013): Fiscal Austerity, Unemployment and Suicide Rates in Greece.
Antonakakis, Nikolaos and Dragouni, Mina and Filis, George (2013): Time-Varying Interdependencies of Tourism and Economic Growth: Evidence from European Countries.
Antoniades, Adonis (2013): Liquidity Risk and the Credit Crunch of 2007-2009: Evidence from Micro-Level Data on Mortgage Loan Applications.
Antoniades, Andreas (2013): Recasting the Power Politics of Debt: Structural Power, Hegemonic Stabilisers and Change. Forthcoming in: Third World Quarterly , Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013): pp. 214-232.
Antošová, Veronika and Stávková, Jana and Birčiaková, Naďa (2013): How the Income Situation of Households in the CR Responds to the Economic Development of the Society.
Antón, José-Ignacio and Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael (2013): Public-private sector wage differentials in Spain. An updated picture in the midst of the Great Recession.
Aoki, Shuhei and Nirei, Makoto (2013): Pareto Distributions and the Evolution of Top Incomes in the U.S.
Aoki, Takaaki (2013): Some Mathematical Properties of the Dynamically Inconsistent Bellman Equation: A Note on the Two-sided Altruism Dynamics.
Araujo, Ricardo (2013): Assessing the Dynamics of Terms of Trade in a Model of Cumulative Causation and Structural Change.
Araujo, Ricardo and Trigg, Andrew (2013): A Neo-Kaldorian Approach to Structural Economic Dynamics.
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O. and Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. (2013): Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country.
Ardizzi, Guerino (2013): Card versus cash: empirical evidence of the impact of payment card interchange fees on end users’ choice of payment methods. Published in: Journal of Financial Market and Infrastructures , Vol. 1, No. 4 (27. June 2013): pp. 73-105.
Areal, Francisco J and Balcombe, Kelvin and Rapsomanikis, George (2013): Testing for bubbles in agriculture commodity markets.
Argesanu, Nicolae Razvan (2013): POLITICI DIN SFERA PROTECTIEI SOCIALE SI SUSTENABILITATEA LOR IN CONTEXTUL CONSTRANGERILOR BUGETARE.
Argesanu, Nicolae Razvan (2013): SISTEMELE DE PENSII DIN STATE ALE UNIUNII EUROPENE IN CONTEXTUL CONSTRANGERILOR BUGETARE.
Aristovnik, Aleksander and Jaklič, Ksenja (2013): Job Satisfaction of Older Workers as a Factor of Promoting Labour Market Participation in the EU: The Case of Slovenia. Published in: Croatian Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 20, No. 2 (August 2013): pp. 123-148.
Armstrong, Mark and Zhou, Jidong (2013): Search Deterrence.
Arora, Vipin (2013): Aggregate impacts of recent U.S. natural gas trends.
Arora, Vipin (2013): Comparisons of Chinese and Indian Energy Consumption Forecasting Models.
Artzrouni, Marc and Tramontana, Fabio (2013): The debt trap: a two-compartment train wreck.
Aruga, Kentaka (2013): The U.S. Shale Gas Revolution and Its Effect on International Gas Markets.
Asghar, Zahid and Muhammad, Ahmed (2013): Socio-economic Determinants of Household Food Insecurity in Pakistan.
Aslamazishvili, Nana (2013): How innovative is Georgian economy? Forthcoming in: ERENET Profile : pp. 21-23.
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): A brief future of Time in the monopoly of scientific knowledge.
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): Modeling the future of knowledge economy: evidence from SSA and MENA countries. Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 33, No. 1 (5. March 2013): pp. 612-624.
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): How do financial reforms affect inequality through financial sector competition? Evidence from Africa. Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 1, No. 33 (15. February 2013)
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): How has politico-economic liberalization affected financial allocation efficiency? Fresh African evidence. Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 33, No. 1 (12. March 2013): pp. 663-676.
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions: which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa? Forthcoming in: European Economics Letters
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality. Forthcoming in: European Economics Letters
Asongu, Simplice A (2013): Fighting African Capital Flight: Empirics on Benchmarking Policy Harmonization. Forthcoming in:
Asongu, Simplice A. and Kodila-Tedika, Oasis (2013): Trust and Prosperity: A Conditional Relationship.
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): Fighting African capital flight: timelines for the adoption of common policies. Forthcoming in: The Empirical Economics Letters
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): New Empirics of monetary policy dynamics: evidence from the CFA franc zones.
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): Consult your gods: the questionable economics of development assistance in Africa. Forthcoming in:
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): Does Money Matter in Africa? New Empirics on Long- and Short-run Effects of Monetary Policy on Output and Prices.
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): How would monetary policy matter in the proposed African monetary unions? Evidence from output and prices.
Asongu , Simplice A (2013): The ‘Knowledge Economy’-finance nexus in SSA and MENA countries. Forthcoming in: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management.
Asongu , Simplice A and Aminkeng, Gilbert A. A (2013): The Economic Consequences of China-Africa Relations: Debunking Myths in the Debate. Forthcoming in:
Asongu , Simplice A and Jellal, Mohamed (2013): On the channels of foreign aid to corruption. Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 33, No. 3 (29. August 2013): pp. 2191-2201.
Atayev, Atabek (2013): On the Earliest Income Inequality and Economic Growth.
Attar, M. Aykut (2013): Growth and Demography in Turkey: Economic History vs. Pro-Natalist Rhetoric.
Attema, Arthur and Brouwer, Werner and l'Haridon, Olivier (2013): Prospect theory in the health domain: a quantitative assessment.
Awel, Ahmed Mohammed (2013): The long-run Relationship between Human Capital and Economic Growth in Sweden.
Ayadi, Felix and Ojo, Marianne (2013): Central bank independence: monetary policies in selected jurisdictions (II).
Ayca, Tekin-Koru (2013): Multinationals and Corruption: Business as Usual?
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk and Güler, Mustafa Haluk and Orman, Cüneyt (2013): The Road to Sustainable Growth in Emerging Markets: The Role of Structural and Monetary Policies in Turkey.
Azizi, Karim and Canry, Nicolas and Chatelain, Jean-Bernard and Tinel, Bruno (2013): Government Solvency, Austerity and Fiscal Consolidation in the OECD: A Keynesian Appraisal of Transversality and No Ponzi Game Conditions.
albanese, marina and navarra, cecilia and Tortia, Ermanno (2013): Employer’s moral hazard and wage rigidity. Published in: DEM Discussion Papers (February 2013)
anwar, saba and munir, kashif (2013): Size of the Government, Quality of Institutions and Growth in SAARC Countries.

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B S, Balakrishna (2013): On multi-particle Brownian survivals and the spherical Laplacian.
BESSO, Christophe Raoul and Chameni Nembua, Célestin (2013): CONTRAT OPTIMAL EN ZONE MONETAIRE HETEROGENE : Cas de la Zone Franc.
BILOA ESSIMI, Jean Aristide and CHAMENI NEMBUA, Celestin (2013): ESTIMATION D’UNE LIGNE D’AFFLUENCE : CAS DU CAMEROUN.
Bachev, Hrabrin (2013): Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture.
Bachev, Hrabrin and Ito, Fusao (2013): Fukushima nuclear disaster – implications for Japanese agriculture and food chains.
Badruddoza, S. (2013): Rules of Microcredit Regulatory Authority in Bangladesh: A Synopsis.
Bagayev, Igor and Najman, Boris (2013): Less quality more costs: Does local power sector reliability matter for electricity intensity?
Bai, Chong-en and Chi, Wei and Xiaoye, Qian (2013): Do College Entrance Examination Scores Predict Undergraduate GPAs? A Tale of Two Universities.
Bai, Zhidong and Li, Hua and Wong, Wing-Keung (2013): The best estimation for high-dimensional Markowitz mean-variance optimization.
Balci, Adnan and Bruna, Maria and Budd, Chris and He, Dongdo and Hjorth, Poul G. and Krzyżanowski, Grzegorz and Kubala, Krystian and Lund, Christian and Martensen, Berit and Schmidt, Gitte and Sikora, Monika and Smug, Damian (2013): Heveas problem: The Fountain.
Baldi, Guido (2013): Fiscal Policy Institutions and Economic Transition in North Africa.
Baldi, Guido (2013): How do Different Government Spending Categories Impact on Private Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate?
Balli, Faruk and Basher, Syed Abul and Balli, Hatice Ozer (2013): International Income Risk-Sharing and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008--2009.
Balli, Faruk and Basher, Syed Abul and Jean Louis, Rosmy (2013): Sectoral equity returns and portfolio diversification opportunities across the GCC region.
Ballinger, Clint (2013): Towards a pure state theory of money.
Bandyopadhyay, Arindam (2013): Ranking of Business School Journals: A Rating Guide for Researchers.
Bao, Qunfang (2013): Mean-Reverting Logarithmic Modeling of VIX.
Bar-Isaac, Heski and Caruana, Guillermo and Cuñat, Vicente (2013): Locating inside the Salop circle: Demand rotations in a micro-founded model.
Bar-Isaac, Heski and Gavazza, Alessandro (2013): Brokers' contractual arrangements in the Manhattan residential rental market.
Baraldi, Anna Laura and Cantabene, Claudia and Perani, Giulio (2013): Reverse causality in the R&D – patents relationship: an interpretation of the innovation persistence.
Bardsley, Nicholas and Buechs, Milena (2013): Exploiting Zero-Inflated Consumption Data using Propensity Score Matching and the Infrequency of Purchase Model, with Application to Climate Change Policy.
Bargary, N. and Berkery, E.M. and Cellai, D. and Dobrzynski, M. and Faqeeh, A. and Krzyzanowski, G. and Melnik, S. and Nyamundanda, G. and O'Callaghan, R. and Sheikhi, A. and Sikora, M. and Vylegzhanin, E. and Wardell, O. and Wilson, R. E. (2013): Predicting Patterns of Customer Usage, with Niftecash.
Barge-Gil, Andrés and Conti, Annamaria (2013): Firm R&D units and outsourcing partners: A matching story.
Barge-Gil, Andrés and López, Alberto (2013): R&D and productivity: In search of complementarity between research and development activities.
Barnett, William A. and Ghosh, Taniya (2013): Stability analysis of Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model.
Bartolucci, Francesco and Nigro, Valentina and Pigini, Claudia (2013): Testing for state dependence in binary panel data with individual covariates.
Basile, Roberto and Donati, Cristiana and Pittiglio, Rosanna (2013): Industry structure and employment growth: evidence from semiparametric geoadditive models.
Basuchoudhary, Atin and Conlon, John R. (2013): Silence is golden: communication, silence, and cartel stability.
Baumöhl, Eduard (2013): Stock market integration between the CEE-4 and the G7 markets: Asymmetric DCC and smooth transition approach.
Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei , Behrooz and Vahabi, Mehrdad (2013): Identity, Authority and Evolution of Order: the trajectory of dueling simulated.
Beja, Edsel Jr. (2013): Focusing on the Focusing Illusion...
Beja Jr, Edsel (2013): Does economic prosperity bring about a happier society? Mathematical remarks on the Easterlin Paradox debate.
Beja Jr., Edsel (2013): Does economic prosperity bring about a happier society? Empirical remarks on the Easterlin Paradox debate.
Belbute, José (2013): Does final demand for energy in Portugal exhibit long memory?
Bell, Peter N (2013): New Testing Procedures to Assess Market Efficiency with Trading Rules.
Bell, William Paul and Wild, Phillip and Foster, John (2013): The transformative effect of unscheduled generation by solar PV and wind generation on net electricity demand.
Bellemare, Marc F. and Carnes, Nicholas (2013): Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?
Bellemare, Marc F. and Steinmetz, Tara L. (2013): All in the Family: Explaining the Persistence of Female Genital Cutting in the Gambia.
Bellido, Héctor and Marcén, Miriam (2013): Divorce laws and fertility decisions.
Bellino, Enrico (2013): On the stability of the Ramsey accumulation path. Forthcoming in: , Vol. in Lev, (2013)
Belliveau, Stefan (2013): Demography of political economy : the baby-boom generation.
Beltratti, Andrea and Paladino, Giovanna (2013): Why do banks optimize risk weights? The relevance of the cost of equity capital.
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine (2013): The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Combustible renewables and waste consumption, exports and economic growth: Evidence from panel for selected MENA countries.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Economic growth and combustible renewables and waste consumption nexus in MENA countries.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Economic growth, combustible renewables and waste consumption and emissions in North Africa.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Energy consumption, output and trade nexus in North Africa.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Output, renewable energy consumption and international trade: Evidence from a panel of 69 countries.
Ben Jebli, Mehdi and Ben Youssef, Slim (2013): Output, renewable energy consumption and trade in Africa.
Benedikter, Simon and Waibel, Gabi (2013): The formation of water user groups in a nexus of central directives and local administration in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
Benner, Maximilian (2013): Cluster policy in developing countries.
Benner, Maximilian (2013): Designing Comprehensive Cluster Policies in Developing Countries: Perspectives for Morocco.
Benner, Maximilian (2013): Developing Economies with Industrial Policy: Towards a Toolbox for Economic Growth. With Case Studies of Jordan and Egypt.
Benner, Maximilian (2013): Towards a policy to promote tourism clusters.
Benos, Nikos and Zotou, Stefania (2013): Education and Economic Growth: A Meta-Regression Analysis.
Beraldo, Sergio and Filoso, Valerio and Marco, Stimolo (2013): Endogenous Preferences and Conformity: Evidence From a Pilot Experiment.
Bercea, Monica Diana (2013): Quantitative versus qualitative in neuromarketing research.
Berg, Claudia and Emran, M. Shahe and Shilpi, Forhad (2013): Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh.
Beria, Paolo and Grimaldi, Raffaele (2013): Appraising the benefits of bottleneck removal in rail transport: a simplified CBA approach.
Berliant, Marcus and Fujishima, Shota (2013): Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxes: Facing an Uncertain Future with a Sluggish Government.
Berliant, Marcus and Peng, Shin-Kun and Wang, Ping (2013): Taxing Pollution: Agglomeration and Welfare Consequences.
Berliant, Marcus and Tabuchi, Takatoshi (2013): Local politics and economic geography.
Berliant, Marcus and Weiss, Adam (2013): Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space: A Comment.
Bernardi, LUIGI (2013): Recent findings regarding the shift from direct to indirect taxation in the EA-17. Forthcoming in: Rivista di diritto finanziario e scienza delle finanze No. 2013/2
Bertranou, Fabio and Casanova, Luis and Sarabia, Marianela (2013): How, Why and in What Sectors Employment Informality Decreased in Argentina from 2003 to 2012.
Berulava, George (2013): Do Trust-Based Relations Improve Firm’s Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies.
Berulava, George (2013): Do Trust-Based Relations Improve Firm’s Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies.
Bethencourt, Carlos and Kunze, Lars (2013): Tax evasion, social norms and economic growth.
Betts, Caroline and Giri, Rahul and Verma, Rubina (2013): "Trade, Reform, And Structural Transformation in South Korea".
Beyhaghi, Mehdi and Mahmoudi, Babak and Mohammadi, Ali (2013): Adverse Selection and Search Frictions in Corporate Loan Contracts.
Bezemer, Dirk and Grydaki, Maria (2013): Debt and the U.S. Great Moderation.
Bezu, Sosina and Kassie, Girma and Shiferaw, Bekele and Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob (2013): Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis.
Bhaduri, Saumitra and Sethudurai, Raja (2013): Non-Linear Taylor Rule through Threshold Estimation.
Bhowmik, Anuj (2013): Edgeworth equilibria: separable and non-separable commodity spaces.
Bijapur, Mohan (2013): Are Credit Shocks Supply or Demand Shocks?
Billand, Pascal and Bravard, Christophe and Kamphorst, Jurjen J.A. and Sarangi, Sudipta (2013): Confirming Information Flows in Networks.
Billette de Villemeur, Etienne and Leroux, Justin (2013): Curbing emissions through (efficient) carbon liabilities: A note from a climate skeptic's perspective.
Billette de Villemeur, Etienne and Ruble, Richard and Versaevel, Bruno (2013): Investment Timing and Vertical Relationships.
Bimonte, Giovanna (2013): A General Coalition Structure: Some Equivalence Results.
Birčiaková, Naďa and Antošová, Veronika and Stávková, Jana (2013): Has the level of achieved education affected the income of Czech households.
Bisello, Martina and Opocher, Arrigo (2013): Real cost reduction and productivity increase in an individual industry: a price-accounting approach in theory and practice.
Bitros, George C. (2013): European Union failures in Greece and some possible explanations.
Bjornskov, Christian and Dreher, Axel and Fischer, Justina A.V. and Schnellenbach, Jan and Gehring, Kai (2013): Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match. Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO)
Blanchard, Michel and Bernard, philippe (2013): The performance of mutual funds on French stock market:Do star funds’ managers exist or do funds have to hire chimpanzees?
Blanco Orozco, Napoleón Vicente and Zuniga Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto (2013): Productivity Analysis in Power Generation Plants Connected to the National Grid: A New Case of Bio Economy in Nicaragua. Published in: Journal of Agricultural Studies , Vol. 1, No. 1 (6. March 2013): pp. 81-102.
Blanco Orozco, Napoleón Vicente and Zuniga Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto (2013): Environmental Bio Economic Impact in Nicaragua. Published in: Journal of Agricultural Studies , Vol. 1, No. 2 (2. September 2013): pp. 53-78.
Blazejowski, Marcin and Kwiatkowski, Jacek (2013): Bayesian Model Averaging and Jointness Measures for gretl.
Blyde, Juan and Molina, Danielken (2013): Logistics Infrastructure and the International Location of Fragmented Production.
Blyde, Juan and Santamaria, Julieth (2013): The Performance of Plants Inserted in Global Supply Chains: A Look at Vertically-Linked Affiliates.
Boansi, David (2013): Export performance and macro-linkages: A look at the competitiveness and determinants of cocoa exports, production and prices for Ghana.
Boansi, David (2013): Output supply and yield response of rice in Nigeria: implications for future rice policy.
Boansi, David (2013): Price and non-price determinants and supply response of rice in Côte d’Ivoire.
Boansi, David (2013): Response of rice output to price and non-price factors in Ghana.
Boansi, David (2013): Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy.
Boansi, David and Crentsil, Christian (2013): Competitiveness and determinants of coffee exports, producer price and production for Ethiopia.
Bol, Thijs and Witschge, Jacqueline and Van de Werfhorst, Herman and Dronkers, Jaap (2013): Curricula tracking and central examinations: counterbalancing the Impact of social background on student achievement in 36 countries.
Bollino, Carlo Andrea and Ciferri, Davide and Polinori, Paolo (2013): Integration and Convergence in European Electricity Markets.
Borenstein, Eliezer and Elkayam, David (2013): The equity premium in a small open economy, and an application to Israel.
Borys, Paweł and Ciżkowicz, Piotr and Rzońca, Andrzej (2013): Panel data evidence on effects of fiscal impulses in the EU New Member States.
Bos, Frits (2013): Meaning and measurement of national accounts statistics.
Bos, Olivier and Ranger, Martin (2013): All-Pay Auctions with Polynomial Rewards.
Botero Degiovanni, Hernan (2013): The Effects of Drug Enforcement on Violence in Colombia 1999-2010: A Spatial Econometric Approach.
Boufateh, Talel and Ajmi, Ahdi Noomen and El Montasser, Ghassen and Issaoui, Fakhri (2013): Dynamic relationship between energy consumption and income in Tunisia: A SVECM approach.
Bouma, Jetske A. and Joy, K.J. and Paranjape, Suhas and Ansink, Erik (2013): Legitimacy and cooperation: A framed field experiment.
Bouoiyour, Jamal (2013): Le retour des migrants marocains dans leur pays d’origine, quand ? Dans quelles circonstances ?
Bouoiyour, Jamal (2013): Transferts de fonds, éducation et travail des enfants au Maroc: Une analyse par score de propension. Published in:
Bouoiyour, Jamal and Selmi, Refk (2013): Exchange Volatility and Export Performance in Egypt: New Insights from Wavelet Decomposition and Optimal GARCH Model.
Bouoiyour, Jamal and Selmi, Refk (2013): Exchange rate uncertainty and export performance: what meta-analysis reveals?
Bouoiyour, Jamal and Selmi, Refk (2013): The controversial link between exchange rate volatility and exports: Evidence from Tunisian case.
Bouzahzah, Mohamed and El Menyari, Younesse (2013): The relationship between international tourism and economic growth: the case of Morocco and Tunisia.
Bown, Chad and Denevers, Michele and Harrison, Ann (2013): Why Fracking Won't Bring Back the Factories (Yet).
Braakmann, Nils (2013): Crime, health and wellbeing – Longitudinal evidence from Mexico.
Braakmann, Nils (2013): Deterrence and age thresholds in punishment in British criminal law.
Braakmann, Nils (2013): Immigration and property prices: Evidence from England and Wales.
Brady, Gerard (2013): Network social capital and labour market outcomes Evidence from Ireland.
Brams, Steven J. and Kilgour, D. Marc and Klamler, Christian (2013): Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm.
Brancati, Emanuele (2013): Innovation activity and financing constraints: evidence from Italy during the crises.
Brancati, Emanuele (2013): Innovation activity and financing constraints: evidence from Italy during the recent crises.
Bredtmann, Julia and Otten, Sebastian (2013): The Role of Source- and Host-Country Characteristics in Female Immigrant Labor Supply.
Breitmoser, Yves (2013): Cooperation, but no reciprocity: Individual strategies in the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma.
Bruno, Bruna and Fiorillo, Damiano (2013): Voluntary work and labour income.
Buechel, Berno and Emrich, Eike and Pohlkamp, Stefanie (2013): Nobody's innocent: the role of customers in the doping dilemma.
Busetta, Giovanni and Fiorillo, Fabio and Visalli, Emanuela (2013): Searching for a job is a beauty contest.
Bussière, Matthieu and Kalantzis, Yannick and Lafarguette, Romain and Sicular, Terry (2013): Understanding household savings in China: the role of the housing market and borrowing constraints.
Bussière, Matthieu and Lopez, Claude and Tille, Cédric (2013): Currency Crises in Reverse: Do Large Real Exchange Rate Appreciations Matter for Growth?
Bystrov, Victor (2013): A factor-augemented model of markup on mortgage loans in Poland.
Böninghausen, Benjamin and Zabel, Michael (2013): Credit Ratings and Cross-Border Bond Market Spillovers.
Bülent, Köksal and Cüneyt, Orman and Arif, Oduncu (2013): Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from a Major Emerging Market Economy.
baffi, enrico (2013): Understanding "The Problem of Social Cost".

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CEESAY, EBRIMA K. (2013): Inequality and growth.
Cai, Jing (2013): The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households’ Production and Financial Decisions.
Cai, Jing and Song, Changcheng (2013): Do Hypothetical Experiences Affect Real Financial Decisions? Evidence from Insurance Take-up.
Cai, Jing and de Janvry, Alain and Sadoulet, Elisabeth (2013): Social Networks and the Decision to Insure.
Callan, Margaret and Davies, Robin (2013): When business meets aid: analysing public-private partnerships for international development (Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 28).
Calvo, Esteban (2013): Antecedentes y desarrollos recientes del sistema de salud chileno. Published in: V Cátedra Internacional. Análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas. : pp. 34-56.
Campbell, Carl (2013): Efficiency wage setting, labor demand, and Phillips curve microfoundations.
Campbell, Douglas L. and Pyun, Ju Hyun (2013): The Diffusion of Development: Along Genetic or Geographic Lines?
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. and Cuilty, Emilio (2013): The Role of Emotions on Risk Aversion: A prospect theory experiment.
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. and Velez, Roberto (2013): Female Labour Supply and intergenerational preference formation: Evidence for Mexico.
Cantor Vargas, Natalia and Herrera Saavedra, Juan Pablo and Campo Robledo, Jacobo and Lis-Gutiérrez, Jenny-Paola (2013): Una propuesta metodológica de discriminación de segundo grado: el caso de tarifas multiclase para el registro marcario en Colombia durante el año 2012.
Capuano, Stella and Marfouk, Abdeslam (2013): African brain drain and its impact on source countries: What do we know and what do we need to know?
Cardoso Machado, Nuno Miguel (2013): The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities – The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel.
Carmona, Guilherme and Podczeck, Konrad (2013): Existence of Nash Equilibrium in games with a measure space of players and discontinuous payoff functions.
Carvalho, Jean-Paul and Koyama, Mark (2013): Resisting Education.
Caseette, Aurélie and Farvaque, Etienne (2013): Are Elections Debt Brakes? Evidence from French Municipalities.
Cassi, Lorenzo and Plunket, Anne (2013): Proximity, network formation and inventive performance: in search of the proximity paradox.
Cassimon, Danny and Engelen, Peter-Jan and Reyntjens, Filip (2013): Rwanda’s involvement in Eastern DRC: A criminal real options approach. Published in: Crime, Law, and Social Change No. 59 (2013): pp. 39-62.
Castellacci, Fulvio and Lie, Christine (2013): Do the effects of R&D tax credits vary across industries? A meta-regression analysis.
Cavalieri, Duccio (2013): On the interdependence of money supply and demand.
Cavalieri, Duccio (2013): Towards a revision of the theory of capital.
Cavalieri, Duccio (2013): A theory of capital as value in progress.
Cazalet, Zelia and Grison, Pierre and Roncalli, Thierry (2013): The Smart Beta Indexing Puzzle.
Cebula, Richard and Coombs, Christopher and Lawson, Luther and Foley, Maggie (2013): The Impacts of Promotions/Marketing, Scheduling, and Economic Factors on Total Gross Revenues for Minor League Baseball Teams. Published in: International Advances in Economic Research , Vol. 19, No. 3 (26. August 2013): pp. 249-257.
Cebula, Richard and Duquette, Christopher and Mixon, Franklin (2013): Factors Influencing the State-Level Settlement Pattern of the Undocumented Immigrant Population in the United States. Published in: Atlantic Economic Journal , Vol. 41, No. 3 (29. May 2013): pp. 3-13.
Cengiz, Sibel and Sahin, Afsin (2013): Modelling Nonlinear Behavior of Labor Force Participation Rate by STAR: An Application for Turkey.
Chakrabarti, Subhadip and Ghintran, Amandine (2013): Assignment of Heterogeneous Agents in Trees under the Permission Value.
Chameni Nembua, Célestin and Biloa Essimi, Jean Aristide (2013): Who is Rich in Cameroun?
Chameni Nembua, Célestin and Demsou, Themoi (2013): Ordinal equivalence of values and Pigou-Dalton transfers in TU-games.
Chan, Tze-Haw and Lean, Hooi Hooi and Hooy, Chee Wooi (2013): A Macro Assessment of China Effects on Malaysian Exports and Trade Balances.
Chang, Chia-Lin and Franses, Philip Hans and McAleer, Michael (2013): Are Forecast Updates Progressive?
Chang, Chia-Lin and Hsu, Hui-Kuang (2013): Modelling Volatility Size Effects for Firm Performance: The Impact of Chinese Tourists to Taiwan.
Chatterjee, Sidharta (2013): Constraints in Organizational Learning, Cognitive Load and its Effect on Employee Behavior. Forthcoming in:
Chatterjee, Tonmoy and Gupta, Kausik (2013): Mobility of Capital and Health Sector:A Trade Theoretic Analysis.
Chatterjee, Tonmoy and Gupta, Kausik (2013): International Fragmentation in the Presence of Alternative Health Sector Scenario : A Theoretical Analysis.
Chau, Tak Wai (2013): Is the Use of Autocovariances in Level the Best in Estimating the Income Processes? A Simulation Study.
Chavan, Rajashri Ramesh and Bhola, Sarang Shankar (2013): Gap Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perception in Tourism Industry. Published in: MERC Global's International Journal of Management , Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013): pp. 68-77.
Chen, Hung-Ju (2013): Intellectual Property Rights and Skills Accumulation: A North-South Model of FDI and Outsourcing.
Chen, Hung-Ju and Sultana, Rezina (2013): Job Reservation and Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences.
Chen, Nan-Kuang and Chen, Shiu-Sheng and Chou, Yu-Hsi (2013): Further evidence on bear market predictability: The role of the external finance premium.
Chen, Ning and Li, Mengling (2013): Ties matter: improving efficiency in course allocation by introducing ties.
Chen, Shiu-Sheng (2013): Forecasting Crude Oil Price Movements with Oil-Sensitive Stocks. Forthcoming in:
Chen, Songxi and Peng, Liang and Yu, Cindy (2013): Parameter Estimation and Model Testing for Markov Processes via Conditional Characteristic Functions. Published in:
Chen, Songxi and Qin, Jing and Tang, Chengyong (2013): Mann-Whitney Test with Adjustments to Pre-treatment Variables for Missing Values and Observational Study. Published in:
Chen, Xi (2013): Relative Deprivation in China. Forthcoming in: forthcoming in Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang (editors), ``The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China", Oxford University Press, 2013. (2013)
Chen, Yan and Zhang, Bin (2013): 基于所有权视角的企业创新理论框架与体系.
Cheng, Wenya and Morrow, John and Tacharoen, Kitjawat (2013): Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China.
Chilosi, Alberto (2013): Long-term unemployment in the varieties of capitalism.
Chodak, Grzegorz and Suchacka, Grażyna (2013): Practical Aspects of Log File Analysis for E-Commerce. Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science , Vol. 370, (June 2013): pp. 562-572.
Choudhary, Ali and Hanif, Nadim and Iqbal, Javed (2013): On smoothing macroeconomic time series using HP and modified HP filter.
Chowdhury, Subhasish and Lee, Dongryul and Sheremeta, Roman (2013): Top Guns May Not Fire: Best-Shot Group Contests with Group-Specific Public Good Prizes. Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Chrostek, Pawel (2013): An empirical investigation into the determinants and persistence of different types of subjective well-being.
Chrz, Stepan and Hruby, Zdenek and Janda, Karel and Kristoufek, Ladislav (2013): Provazanost trhu potravin, biopaliv a fosilnich paliv.
Chu, Angus C. and Cozzi, Guido and Furukawa, Yuichi (2013): A Schumpeterian Analysis of Monetary Policy, Innovation and North-South Technology Transfer.
Chu, Angus C. and Cozzi, Guido and Furukawa, Yuichi (2013): A Simple Theory of Offshoring and Reshoring.
Chu, Angus C. and Cozzi, Guido and Lai, Ching-Chong and Liao, Chih-Hsing (2013): Monetary Policy, R&D and Economic Growth in an Open Economy.
Chu, Angus C. and Furukawa, Yuichi and Ji, Lei (2013): Patents, R&D Subsidies and Endogenous Market Structure in a Schumpeterian Economy.
Chu, Angus C. and Kan, Kamhon and Lai, Ching-Chong and Liao, Chih-Hsing (2013): Money, Random Matching and Endogenous Growth: A Quantitative Analysis.
Chun, So Yeon and Kleywegt, Anton and Shapiro, Alexander (2013): Resource Exchange Seller Alliances.
Ciliberto, Federico and Miller, Amalia and Skyt Nielsen, Helena and Simonsen, Marianne (2013): Playing the Fertility Game at Work: An Equilibrium Model of Peer Effects.
Cirer-Costa, Joan Carles (2013): The role of geography in the success of the balearic tourism industry.
Clemente, Jesús and Larramona, Gemma and Olmos, Lorena (2013): Interregional migration and thresholds: evidence in Spain.
Clifton, Judith and Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel and Fernández-Gutiérrez, Marcos (2013): How consumers’ socio-economic background influences satisfaction: Insights for better utility regulation.
Colignatus, Thomas (2013): Economics as victim between lawyers and mathematics: An explanation for the tax credit, Bulgarian potential fraud, European unemployment and the economic crisis.
Colignatus, Thomas (2013): Money as gold versus money as water.
Colignatus, Thomas (2013): The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of September 2012.
Commendatore, Pasquale and Michetti, Elisabetta and Purificato, Francesco (2013): Financial Development and Agglomeration.
Conrad, Daren A. (2013): A Review of C.L.R. James and Marxism in the United States.
Cordero, José Manuel and Santín, Daniel and Sicilia, Gabriela (2013): Dealing with the Endogeneity Problem in Data Envelopment Analysis.
Correa, Sofía and Torres-Martínez, Juan Pablo (2013): Essential equilibria of large games.
Cortuk, Orcan and Güler, Mustafa Haluk (2013): A disaggregated approach to the government spending shocks: an theoretical analysis.
Costas, Antón and Lago-Peñas, Santiago (2013): La crisis de la deuda, el euro y la construcción política europea: reflexiones desde la economía.
Covarrubias, Enrique (2013): Global invertibility of excess demand functions.
Covi, Giovanni (2013): Do The Central Banks Always Do The Right Thing For Their Economies? An Appraisal Of The Monetary Policy Strategy Of The ECB.
Covi, Giovanni (2013): A case study of an advanced Dutch disease: The Russian oil.
Cowgill, Matt (2013): A Shrinking Slice of the Pie: The Labour Income Share in Australia.
Cozza, Claudio and Schettino, Francesco (2013): Explaining the Patenting Propensity: A Regional Analysis using EPO-OECD Data.
Crespo, Nuno and Simoes, Nadia and Moreira, Sandrina B. (2013): Gender Differences in Occupational Mobility – Evidence from Portugal.
Cruz-Rodriguez, Alexis (2013): La END, el plan nacional plurianual del sector público y la sostenibilidad fiscal en la República Dominicana. Forthcoming in:
Cuñat, Vicente and Gine, Mireia and Guadalupe, Maria (2013): Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance.
constantine, collin (2013): Why Guyana's self discovery is the missing link in its development strategy.

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D'Acci, Luca (2013): Isobenefit Urbanism and Isotropic Societies for visionary futures. Equations against unideal cities.
D'Acci, Luca (2013): Macro and Micro Spatial Equilibrium.
D'Acci, Luca (2013): A Modern Postmodern Urbanism The Systemic Retroactive game (SyR) between Bottom-up and Top-down.
D'Acci, Luca (2013): Simulating future societies in Isobenefit Cities: social isobenefit scenarios.
DE KONING, Kees (2013): Debt, equity and income: the limits to the freedom of choice in an economy.
DE KONING, Kees (2013): Economic System Failures: the U.S. case.
DE KONING, Kees (2013): The real financial crisis: an individual households' crisis The case for index-linked government bonds for the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K.
Da Costa Jr, Newton and Goulart, Marco and Cupertino, Cesar and Macedo Jr, Jurandir and Da Silva, Sergio (2013): The disposition effect and investor experience.
Da Silva, Sergio (2013): Time to abandon group thinking in economics.
Da Silva, Sergio (2013): The mutual gains from trade moderate the parent-offspring conflict.
Dai, Lili and Ngo, Phong T. H. (2013): Political Uncertainty and Accounting Conservatism: Evidence from the U.S. Presidential Election Cycle.
Dai, Lili and Ngo, Phong T. H. (2013): Political Uncertainty and Accounting Conservatism: Evidence from the U.S. Presidential Election Cycle.
Dalton, John (2013): A Theory of Just-in-Time and the Growth in Manufacturing Trade.
Dalton, John and Leung, Tin Cheuk (2013): Dispersion and Distortions in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Daly, Hounaida and Smida, Mounir (2013): Interaction entre politique monétaire et politique budgétaire:Cas de la Grèce.
Daly, Hounaida and Smida, Mounir (2013): La coordination des politiques monétaire et budgétaire: Aperçu théorique.
Daly, Hounaida and Smida, Mounir (2013): La coordination des politiques monétaire et budgétaire: Aperçu théorique.
Damiani, Mirella and Ricci, Andrea (2013): Entrepreneurs’ education and different variable pay schemes in Italian firms.
Daniel, Mont and Nguyen, Cuong (2013): Spatial Variation in the Disability-Poverty Correlation: Evidence from Vietnam.
Das, Arabinda (2013): Estimation of Inefficiency using a Firm-specific Frontier Model.
Dascher, Kristof (2013): City Silhouette, World Climate.
Dascher, Kristof (2013): Foreign Direct Investment into Open and Closed Cities.
Daskovskiy, Vadim and Kiselyov, Vladimir (2013): О неоиндустриальной модели и стратегии развития экономики. Published in: Экономист (The Economist (Russian) No. 6 (June 2013): pp. 34-49.
David, Martín-Barroso and Juan Andres, Nuñez and Francisco J., Velazquez (2013): The efect on firms' Productivity of accessibility. The Spanish manufacturung sector.
De Koning, Kees (2013): The United Kingdom: Economic Growth, a Draft Master Plan.
De Koning, Kees (2013): An income gap theory and its effects on unemployment and economic growth.
De Palma, André and Fosgerau, Mogens (2013): Random queues and risk averse users. Published in: European Journal of Operational Research , Vol. 230, No. 2 (2013): pp. 313-320.
Deev, Oleg and Kajurova, Veronika and Stavarek, Daniel (2013): Testing rational speculative bubbles in Central European stock markets.
Delavari, Majid and Gandali Alikhani, Nadiya and Naderi, Esmaeil (2013): Does long memory matter in forecasting oil price volatility?
Delavari, Majid and Gandali Alikhani, Nadiya (2013): The Dynamic Effects of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Prices on Iran's Methanol.
Delis, Manthos D and Staikouras, Panagiotis and Tsoumas, Chris (2013): Enforcement actions and bank behavior.
Dev, Pritha and Mberu, Blessing and Pongou, Roland (2013): Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education.
Dey, Oindrila and Banerjee, Swapnendu (2013): Status, incentives and random favouritism.
Dhasmana, Anubha (2013): Operational Currency Mismatch and Firm Level Performance: Evidence from India.
Dhasmana, Anubha (2013): Real Effective Exchange Rate and Manufacturing Sector Performance: Evidence from Indian firms.
Di Gabriele, James and Ojo, Marianne (2013): Objectivity and independence: the dual roles of external auditors and forensic accountants. Forthcoming in:
Diacon, Paula-Elena (2013): The economic crisis between liberalization and government intervention.
Dicembrino , Claudio and Trovato, Giovanni (2013): Structural Breaks, Price and Income Elasticity, and Forecast of the Monthly Italian Electricity Demand.
Dimico, Arcangelo (2013): The Evolution of Conflict and Effectiveness of Aid.
Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W. (2013): Research, Research Gap and the Research Problem.
Dissanayake, Srinath (2013): Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneur: A Synthesis View.
Dissanayake, Srinath (2013): Rewarding Stakeholders: The Perspective of Strategic Entrepreneurship.
Doan, Tinh and Nguyen, Ha (2013): Productivity dispersion and the roles of quality of labour input and competition: A case of Vietnamese manufacturing sector.
Dobre, Ana Maria (2013): Statistical Analysis of International Migration Using R Software.
Dobrescu, Emilian (2013): Modelling the sectoral structure of the final output.
Doko Tchatoka, Firmin (2013): On bootstrap validity for specification tests with weak instruments.
Domenichini, Ginevra (2013): Il finanziamento di beni e attività culturali in Italia: ruolo e tendenze dei suoi principali attori.
Dominique, C-Rene (2013): Estimating investors' behavior and errors in probabilistic forecasts by the Kolmogorov entropy and noise colors of non-hyperbolic attractors.
Dominique, C-Rene (2013): Estimating investors' behavior and errorsin probabilistic forecasts by the Kolmogorov entropy and noise colors of multifractal attractors.
Donici, Andreea-Nicoleta and Calance, Mădălina (2013): Controversele Globalizării Economice.
Donze, Jocelyn and Gunnes, Trude (2013): Becoming "We" Instead of "I", Identity Management and Incentives in the Workplace.
Doran, Justin and Jordan, Declan (2013): Decomposing European NUTS2 regional inequality from 1980 to 2009: national and European policy implications. Published in: Journal of Economic Studies , Vol. 40, No. 1 (2013): pp. 22-38.
Doran, Justin and Jordan, Declan and O'Leary, Eoin (2013): Effects of R&D spending on Innovation by Irish and Foreign-owned Businesses. Published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland , Vol. 166, (2013)
Doran, Justin and O'Leary, Eoin (2013): The Roles of R&D and networking for innovation by Irish and foreign-owned firms: evidence from the Irish CIS 2006-08.
Doshchyn, Artur and Giommetti, Nicola (2013): Learning, Expectations, and Endogenous Business Cycles.
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. and Katselidis, Ioannis (2013): From Edgeworth to Econophysics: A Methodological Perspective.
Drichoutis, Andreas and Lusk, Jayson and Nayga, Rodolfo (2013): The veil of experimental currency units.
Drichoutis, Andreas and Nayga, Rodolfo (2013): A reconciliation of time preference elicitation methods.
Dridi, Mohamed (2013): Achieving Education for All Goals: Does Corruption Matter?
Dridi, Mohamed (2013): Corruption and Economic Growth: The Transmission Channels. Published in: Journal of Business Studies Quarterly , Vol. 4, No. 4 (June 2013): pp. 121-152.
Dridi, Mohamed (2013): Corruption dans le Secteur d'Education : Une Typologie de Conséquences.
Driscoll, Áine and Lyons, Sean and Morgenroth, Edgar and Nolan, Anne (2013): Comparing the Determinants of Mode Choice across Travel Purposes.
Drobot, Elena and Shlepova, Kristina and Lisyanskay, Victoria and Prohorenko, Valeria and Eugene, Legatov (2013): МИГРАЦИОННЫЕ ПРОЦЕССЫ В ВЫБОРГСКОМ РАЙОНЕ ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: СОСТОЯНИЕ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТОЛЕРАНТНОСТИ И ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ.
Du, Julan and Leung, Charles Ka Yui and Chu, Derek (2013): Return enhancing, cash-rich or simply empire-building? An empirical investigation of corporate real estate holdings.
Dumanska, Vita (2013): МОНЕТАРНИЙ ПРОНАТАЛІЗМ: ОЦІНКА ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ. Published in: Demography and Social Economy, , Vol. 19, No. 1 (2013): pp. 28-36.
Dumitriu, Ramona and Stefanescu, Razvan (2013): DOW effects in returns and in volatility of stock markets during quiet and turbulent times. Published in: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Economics and Administration No. 2013 (22. May 2013): pp. 143-169.
Duran-Vazquez, Rocio and Lorenzo-Valdes, Arturo and Ruiz-Porras, Antonio (2013): Un modelo GARCH con asimetria condicional autorregresiva para modelar series de tiempo: Una aplicacion para los rendimientos del Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones de la BMV.
Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy and Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2013): Declining Labour Use in Agriculture : A Case of Rice Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh.
Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy and Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2013): Labour in Rice Production and Value Chain : Field Observations from Jangaon, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh.
Dwyer, Gerald P and Devereux, John and Baier, Scott L. and Tamura, Robert (2013): Recessions, Growth and Financial Crises. Forthcoming in: Journal of International Money and Finance
Działek, Jarosław (2013): In search of a new identity in Polish mountains: the case of Babia Góra.
d'Agostino, Giorgio and Dunne, John Paul and Pieroni, Luca (2013): Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth.
d'Agostino, Giorgio and Pieroni, Luca and Scarlato, Margherita (2013): Social Protection and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Evaluation of Cash Transfer Programmes.
d'Albis, Hippolyte and Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle and Hupkes, Hermen Jan (2013): Bounded Interest Rate Feedback Rules in Continuous-Time.
d'Albis, Hippolyte and Iliopulos, Eleni (2013): Collateral constraints and rental markets. Forthcoming in: Economics Letters
dala, eleni and karpetis, christos and varelas, erotokritos (2013): Bank Behavior in Oligopoly, Bank- Clients and Monetary Policy.
de Rigo, Daniele (2013): Software uncertainty in integrated environmental modelling: the role of semantics and open science. Forthcoming in: Geophysical Research Abstracts , Vol. 15, (2013)
de Rigo, Daniele (2013): Software uncertainty in integrated environmental modelling: the role of semantics and open science. Forthcoming in: Geophysical Research Abstracts , Vol. 15, (2013)
de Rigo, Daniele and Corti, Paolo and Caudullo, Giovanni and McInerney, Daniel and Di Leo, Margherita and San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jesús (2013): Toward open science at the European scale: geospatial semantic array programming for integrated environmental modelling. Forthcoming in: Geophysical Research Abstracts , Vol. 15, (2013)
dogru, bulent (2013): Seigniorage Revenue and Inflation Tax: Testing Optimal Seigniorage Theory for Turkish Economy. Published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance , Vol. 6, No. 5 (June 2013): pp. 122-133.
doğru, bülent (2013): Are Output Fluctuations Transitory in the MENA Region?
doğru, bülent (2013): Dynamic Analysis of Money Demand Function: Case of Turkey*.
doğru, bülent (2013): Seigniorage Revenue and Inflation Tax in Turkish economy.

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Eckerstorfer, Paul and Wendner, Ronald (2013): Asymmetric and Non-atmospheric Consumption Externalities, and Efficient Consumption Taxation.
Economou, Emmanouel/Marios/Lazaros and Kyriazis, Nicholas (2013): The emergence and the development of the federations: The Achaean federation, the United Provinces and the EU.
Efthymiou, Vassilis A. and Leledakis, George N. (2013): Intraday analysis of the limit order bias at the ex-dividend day of U.S. common stocks.
El Fasiki, Hamza (2013): Disorganizing Organizational Culture: Comment on the Individual and Family Factors. Published in: AV Akademikerverlag (5. May 2013): pp. 122-138.
El Fasiki, Hamza (2013): The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications. Published in: Tharawat Magazine , Vol. 18, (June 2013): pp. 20-23.
El Fasiki, Hamza (2013): The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications. Published in: Tharawat Magazine , Vol. 18, (June 2013): pp. 20-23.
El Joueidi, Sarah (2013): A taxonomy of manufacturing and service firms in Luxembourg according to technological skills. Forthcoming in: Economie et Statistiques: Working papers du STATEC No. 68 (September 2013)
El Montasser, Ghassen and Boufateh, Talel and Issaoui, Fakhri (2013): The seasonal KPSS test when neglecting seasonal dummies: a Monte Carlo analysis.
El-Khatib, Youssef and Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser (2013): On the pricing and hedging of options for highly volatile periods.
El-khatib, Youssef and Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser (2013): On option pricing in illiquid markets with random jumps.
Elasrag, Hussein (2013): سياسات تعزيز القدرة التنافسية لصادرات المشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة المصرية.
Elasrag, Hussein (2013): دور المشروعات الصغیرة والمتوسطة فى التنمیة الصناعیة لمصر.
Eliasson, Jonas and Fosgerau, Mogens (2013): Cost overruns and demand shortfalls – deception or selection? Forthcoming in: Transportation Research Part B
Ellyne, Mark and Chater, Rachel (2013): Exchange Control and SADC Regional Integration.
Elsamadisy, Elsayed Mousa and Alkhater, Khalid Rashid and Basher, Syed Abul (2013): Pre- versus Post-Crisis Central Banking in Qatar.
Elshennawy, Abeer and Robinson, Sherman and Willenbockel, Dirk (2013): Climate Change and Economic Growth: An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Analysis for Egypt.
Entorf, Horst (2013): Der Wert der Sicherheit: Anmerkungen zur Ökonomie der Sicherheit.
Erdem, Orhan and Yüksel, Serkan and Arık, Evren (2013): Trading Puzzle, Puzzling Trade.
Erdogdu, Erkan (2013): Essays on Electricity Market Reforms: A Cross-Country Applied Approach.
Erdogdu, Erkan (2013): Implications of liberalization policies on government support to R&D: lessons from electricity markets. Published in: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews , Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2013): pp. 110-118.
Erdogdu, Erkan (2013): A cross-country analysis of electricity market reforms: Potential contribution of New Institutional Economics. Published in: Energy Economics , Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2013): pp. 239-251.
Erkoc, Taptuk Emre (2013): Efficiency of Public Sector Organizations: Perspectives from Theories of Bureaucracy.
Ermişoğlu, Ergun and Akcelik, Yasin and Oduncu, Arif (2013): GDP Growth and Credit Data.
Ermişoğlu, Ergun and Akçelik, Yasin and Oduncu, Arif and Taşkın, Temel (2013): The Effects of Additional Monetary Tightening on Exchange Rates.
Eryar, Değer and Tekgüç, Hasan (2013): Gender effect in explaining the mobility patterns in the labor market: a Case study from Turkey.
Escañuela Romana, Ignacio (2013): Do the Economic Cycles of the Eurozone Member States converge? Empirical Evidence.
Escobari, Diego and Lee, Jim (2013): Demand Uncertainty and Capacity Utilization in Airlines. Forthcoming in: Empirical Economics
Escobari, Diego and Mellado, Cristhian (2013): The Choice of Airport, Airline, and Departure Date and Time: Estimating the Demand for Flights.
Escobari, Diego and Mollick, André Varella (2013): Output Growth and Unexpected Government Expenditures. Forthcoming in: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
Estrada, Fernando (2013): Ronald Coase 1910-2013, In memoriam.
Evers, Hans-Dieter (2013): The Governance of Knowledge.

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Falagiarda, Matteo (2013): Evaluating Quantitative Easing: A DSGE Approach.
Fan, Jianqing and Liao, Yuan and Shi, Xiaofeng (2013): Risks of large portfolios.
Fanti, Luciano and Gori, Luca (2013): Endogenous fertility, endogenous lifetime and economic growth: the role of child policies.
Farhani, Sahbi and Shahbaz, Muhammad (2013): The Role of Natural Gas Consumption and Trade in Tunisia’s Output.
Farhani, Sahbi and Shahbaz, Muhammad and AROURI, Mohamed El Hedi (2013): Panel analysis of CO2 emissions, GDP, energy consumption, trade openness and urbanization for MENA countries.
Farhani, Sahbi and Shahbaz, Muhammad and Arouri, Mohammed (2013): The Role of Natural Gas Consumption and Trade in Tunisia’s Output.
Farhani, Sahbi and Shahbaz, Muhammad and Sbia, Rashid (2013): What is MENA Region Initially Needed: Grow Output or Mitigate CO2 Emissions?
Farkas, Beáta (2013): Changing development prospects for the Central and Eastern European EU member states.
Farzin, Y. Hossein and Wendner, Ronald (2013): Saving Rate Dynamics in the Neoclassical Growth Model – Hyperbolic Discounting and Observational Equivalence.
Felix, Ayadi and Marianne, Ojo (2013): Central bank independence: monetary policies in selected jurisdictions (I).
Fenske, James (2013): African polygamy: Past and present.
Fenske, James (2013): Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the commons.
Fenske, James (2013): Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin.
Fenske, James and Kala, Namrata (2013): Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade.
Fernandes, Cristina and Ferreira, João and Raposo, Mario (2013): Drivers to firm innovation and their effects on performance: An international comparison. Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal No. online first
Fernando, Estrada (2013): Estado y política pública en Colombia: Un balance desde la teoría política. Published in: Cuadernos CIPE , Vol. 14, (March 2013)
Fernando, Estrada and Mihai, Mutascu and Aviral Kumar, Tiwari (2013): Estabilidad política y tributación. Published in: Revista Análisis Político, IEPRI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia , Vol. 77, (2013): pp. 133-152.
Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra and Sousa, Cândida and Carvalho, Helena and Crespo, Nuno (2013): Trade Protectionism and Intra-industry Trade: A USA - EU Comparison.
Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra and Sousa, Cândida and Carvalho, Helena and Crespo, Nuno (2013): Trade Protectionism and Intra-industry Trade: A USA - EU Comparison.
Ferro, Gustavo and Lentini, Emilio J. and Mercadier, Augusto C. and Romero, Carlos A. (2013): Eficiencia en la prestación de agua y saneamiento y su vinculación con regiones, propiedad e independencia de los prestadores en Brasil.
Fidanoski, Filip and Mateska, Vesna and Simeonovski, Kiril (2013): Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Evidence from Macedonia. Published in: Proceedings [CD- ROM] of 16th International Students’ Conference, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ege University, Izmir. (April 2013)
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Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Md Yunus, Melor and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013): A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Published in: Asian Social Science , Vol. 9, No. 5 (27. April 2013): pp. 18-26.

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Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.

Item Type:	MPRA Paper
Original Title:	A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
English Title:	A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Language:	English
Keywords:	web of science, scopus, database, citations, provenance, coverage, searching, citation tracking, impact factor, indexing, h-index, researcher profile, researcher ID
Subjects:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Insititutions I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Insititutions > I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General Z - Other Special Topics > Z0 - General Z - Other Special Topics > Z0 - General > Z00 - General Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology > Z18 - Public Policy
Item ID:	46898
Depositing User:	Nader Ale Ebrahim
Date Deposited:	11. May 2013 07:46
Last Modified:	11. May 2013 07:57
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A framework for SaaS software packages evaluation and selection with virtual team and BOCR of analytic network process

Daji Ergu,
Yi Peng
Abstract
Software packages evaluation and selection is one of the most important activities encountered by software as a service (SaaS) users in the high performance networked computing environment, especially for the small or medium-sized enterprises. In this paper, we propose a framework for SaaS software packages evaluation and selection by combining the virtual team (VT) and the BOCR (benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks) of the analytic network process (ANP). Different from the traditional application of the BOCR model of ANP, the proposed VT-BOCR model attempts to solve the complex ANP model and overloaded pairwise comparisons by decomposing the tasks to four parts, and performed by benefits virtual team (B-VT), opportunities virtual team (O-VT), costs virtual team (C-VT), and risks virtual team (R-VT) separately. The interactive networked media on distributed environments not only makes the proposed framework possible without the limitations of time, space, and human resources, but also can take full advantage of the talent experts who are geographically dispersed. The proposed framework also shows great potentials for aiding practitioners and researchers concerned with the cloud services.

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