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EDITOR

 

Demetri Kantarelis

 

REVIEWERS

(In Alphabetical Order)

 

Abid, Fathi

Alfranca, Oscar

Ardagh, Anne

Asadoorian, Malcolm

Aziz, H.A

Baker, Gary

Balkaransigh, Radha

Barros, Alexandre Rands

Bell, Peter

Binner, Jane

Bogdan, Nina

Brink, Nicola

Bruce, Kyle

Budihardjo, Andrea

Buys, Micheal

Cantarella, Anthony

Christner, Ron

Clark, Robert

Clarke, William A.

Cloninger, Peggy-Ann

Cockfield, S.

Coetzee, Karina

Cregan,Christine

de Kervenoael, R.

de Souza, Nali de Jesus

Dimelis, Sophia

Elger, Thomas

Elias, S.

Engelen, Peter-Jan

Fontoura, Maria Paula

Godinho, Pedro

Gonuguntla, Satya

Gonzalez-Rivera, Gloria

Greer, Mark

Guido, L.

Gutierrez, Pedro

Han, Pyuang

Haque, A.

Hargrave, Andy

Hueng, James

Jallili, Ali Reza

Johnson, Victoria

Kehal, H.S.

Kim, Youn H.

Kirkbride, James

Kiuila, Olga

Ko, Roger

Ko, Roger

Koutmos, Gregory

Kueh, Y.Y.

Laopodis, Nikiforos

Lee, Hahn Shik

Loeb, Peter

Lynn, Stuart

Machan, Tibor

Mancuso, Paolo

Mangani, Andrea

Marangos, John

Marin, Carmen

Marktanner, Marcus

Metghalchi, Massoud

Milhomme, Albert

Mirmirani, Sam

Moolman, Leon

Nicholson, Joel

Onwuka, Kevin

Ott, Ursula

Owen, Anthony

Parker, Abdul Rauf

Parsa, Sapideh

Petrick, Joseph

Petrochilos, George

Reis, Priscilla

Rimmer, Russell

Rowley, Jennifer

Seagull, Louis

Sherman, Robert

Shin, Kyung-Hwan

Tanna, Sailesh

Thorpe, Michael

Tsionas, Efthymios

Vambery, Robert G.

Veendorp, E.C.H.

Wattam, Stuart

Weymann, Elizabeth A.

Whalen, Charles

Wirth, I.

Wolter, Stefan

Worner, William

Yu, Tyler

Zukoswski, Ryszar

 

 

CONTENTS

MANAGEMENT & MARKETING

The Virtuous Organization: A Neo-Aristotelian Foundation.
David Ardagh
Charles Sturt University, Australia. 1

A Model of the Virtual Organisation and Implications for Effective Management:
An Empirical Analysis.

H. R. Seddighi, M. Sandhu, University of Sunderland, UK &
M. Bagher, Dearne Valley Business School, UK. 16

Managing Across Borders: Culture and Control Systems Design.
Priscilla R. Reis & Robert R. Picard
Idaho State University, USA. 28

Targeting Ethnic Groups in Developed, Culturally Diverse Countries:
Reconsidering the Acculturation Process.

Guilherme D. Pires & John Stanton
University of Newcastle, Australia. 36

Quantitative Integration of the Event Tree Analysis [ETA] and the Fault Tree Analysis [FTA] for
Predicting and Reducing Chances of Failure in Organizational Management Systems.

Maged Sedky Morcos
University for Modern Sciences and Arts, Egypt. 46

Asian Business Practice and Corporate Strategy: A Socio-Cultural Perspective.
John Saee
Visiting, Universite De Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne, France. 58

Moving from What to How in Management Education: A Teaching Tool.
Elizabeth A. Weymann & Caroline M. Fisher
Loyola University, USA. 65

Buying Anxiety: The Dark Side of Shopping.
R. Parker, Rowan University, USA;
G. R. Funkhouser, Consultant, Ft. Washington PA, USA ; &
A. Chatterjee, Slippery Rock University, USA. 72

Customer Banking Experiences: The Case of Private and Public Sector Banks in Greece.
Cleopatra Veloutsou, University of Glasgow, UK;
Sofia Daskou, University of Strathclyde, UK; &
Antonia Daskou, Export Brand Manager Rilken S.A., UK. 78

HUMAN RESOURCES

The Dynamics of Equity, Conflict and Remuneration.

L.C. Hunter, University of Glasgow, Scotland;
D.J. McCormack, LaTrobe University, Australia; &
Russell J. Rimmer, University of Paisley, Scotland. 90

Efficiency versus Fairness from Labour Training Targeting Strategies.
Alexandre Rands Barros
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. 109

Labor Turnover, Transaction Costs and Asset Specificity.
Kyle Bruce
Griffith University, Australia. 121

MACROENOMICS

Time-Scale Analysis of Consumption-Income Relationships via Wavelets.

Hahn S. Lee & Yong Hun Jung
Sogang University, Korea. 130

A Var Analysis of Cross-Country Monetary Spillover Effects: The Case of the US and the Caribbean.
Ann-Marie Warner & Kevin Greenidge
Central Bank of Barbados, Barbados. 142

The Asian Currency Crisis and the Lao Economy: External Shock, Economic
Structure and Domestic Macroeconomic Policy, 1997-1999.

William E. Worner
University of Western Sydney, Australia. 155

Asymmetric Effects of Money on Price and Income.
Hahn S. Lee & Sung M. Ahn
Sogang University, Korea. 174

Saving, Growth and Imperfect Financial Markets.
Eun Young Chah
University of California, San Diego, USA & Ewha University, Korea. 185

The Role of Institutional Factors on the Transmission Mechanism of
Monetary Policy in Emerging Economies.

Noemí Levy & Guadalupe Mántey
National Autonomous University, Mexico. 193

A Bivariate Causality Between Financial Development and Economic Growth: the Malaysian Case.
Hassanuddeen Abdul Aziz, International Islamic University, Malaysia;
Salim Rashid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 205

Local Productive Systems: a Case Study in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Maria Cristina Ortigão Sampaio Schiller
State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Candido Mendes University and ENCE/IBGE, Brazil. 212

FINANCE INVESTMENTS & BANKING

World Equity Markets: 1970-2000.

Massoud Metghalchi & Yung-Ho Chang
University of Houston, USA. 226

International Mergers and Acquisitions: A Statistical Analysis of Financial Performance.
Tyler T. Yu, Miranda M. Zhang & Victoria Johnson
Mercer University, USA. 231

Zero Inflation and Interest Credit Opportunity (ZICO): A New Financial Instrument.
Fathi Abid
University of Sfax, Tunisia. 242

The Integration of Southern Africa into Global Financial Markets: Obstacles and Risks.
Nicola Brink
South African Reserve Bank, South Africa. 254

An Examination of the Relationship Between Stock Splits & and Institutional Investors.
Jacqueline R. Griffith
Kean University, USA. 267

Assessing Active Funds Management: The Australian Case.
Kim Hawtrey
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 287

Is the Australian Financial System Prepared for the Third Millennium? An Analysis of Changes
in Regulatory Models Governing the Australian Financial System.

Carolyn Currie
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. 298

Self-insurance, Self-protection and the Regulation of Minimum Insurance.
Chu-Shiu Li & Chwen-Chi Liu Feng
Chia University, Taiwan. 323

Real Exchange Rate Stability: Evidence from Five OECD Countries.
Mehdi Monadjemi
University of New South Wales, Australia. 334

Commercial Bank Interest Margins and Profitability: Evidence for Some EU Countries.
Margarida Abreu Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão - CISEP, Portugal &
Victor Mendes Faculdade de Economia do Porto - CEMPRE, Portugal. 343

MICROECONOMICS

Microeconomic Reform and Competition Policy in Australia: the Nationwide Response.

Anne Ardagh
Charles Sturt University, Australia. 349

Teaching Consumer Equilibrium as Rational Behavior.
Barbara Brown
Pace University, USA. 360

The Use of Cost and Maximum Time to Completion in Project Analysis under Uncertainty.
Pedro C. Godinho & João Paulo
Costa University of Coimbra and INESC, Portugal. 366

An Interactive Procedure for the Identification of Non-Dominated Strategies in Bicriteria
Project Decision Trees.

Pedro C. Godinho & João Paulo
Costa University of Coimbra and INESC, Portugal. 379

Forward Induction and Stability in a R-D and Specialization Game.
Mahamed Adel Dhif
Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia. 395

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Vertical Product Differentiation with Complementarities.

Andrea Mangani
Università di Siena, Italy. 403

To Compete or not to Compete: Multi-Market Duopoly.
Keith C.K. Cheung, University of Windsor, Canada; &
Desmond C.Y. Yuen, University of Macau, China. 411

Industrial Clustering: A Theoretical Model with Special Reference to the Garment Manufacturing Industry.
C. L. Lackenby & H. R. Seddighi
University of Sunderland, UK. 421

Enterprise Performance and Innovation: Empirical Findings on Italian Manufacturing Industries.
Eleonora Bartoloni, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Milano, Italy; &
Maurizio Baussola, Catholic University, Piacenza, Italy. 432

Cumulative Innovation in Food and Beverage Multinationals.
Oscar Alfranca, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ESAB, Spain;
Ruth Rama, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain; &
Nicholas von Tunzelmann, University of Sussex, UK. 446

Disclosure of Social Information by UK Companies- A Case of Legitimacy Theory.
Sepideh Parsa, Middlessex University, UK &
Reza Kouhy, Dundee University, UK. 460

Do the Characteristics of Tourist Destinations Matter? An Empirical Economic Analysis.
H.R. Seddighi, A.L. Theocharous &
M.W. Nuttall University of Sunderland, UK. 474

The Economic Impact vs Marketing Spend of Different, International Tourism Markets to South Africa.
Melville Saayman & Andrea Saayman
Potchefstroom University for CHE, S. Africa. 492

Takeovers, Profits and Growth: A Case Study of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest (2000.)
Jenny Kwok, Durham University, UK &
Kevin Anthony Lawler, Sunderland Business School, UK. 502

Regulation, Competition and Meta-Regulation - Reflections on the UK Experience.
James Kirkbride, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. 513

The Determinants of Railroad Fatalities in the U.S.: An Econometric Model Integrating the
Effect of Deregulation on Safety.

Peter D. Loeb, Rutgers University, USA &
William A. Clarke, Bentley College, USA. 525

The Feasibility of Strategic Alliances in Tertiary Education? - A Case Study of Australian Universities.
Carolyn Currie
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. 539

Angst in Aotearoa: The Marketisation of Business Education in New Zealand.
Wayne Dreyer
Manukau Institute of Technology, New Zealand. 555

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, INTERNATIONAL TRADE & IMMIGRATION

Determinants of the Pattern of Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade:
What Can we Learn from Portuguese Data?

Nuno Crespo, ISEG/UTL, Portugal & Maria Paula Fontoura, ISEG/CEDIN-UTL, Portugal. 563

China and the WTO: Outlook and Prospects.
Michael Thorpe
Curtin University, Western Australia. 581

An Analysis of the Mode of Entry of Greek Outward Foreign Investment in the Balkans and the
Black Sea Economic Co-Operation Area (BSECA.)

George A. Petrochilos, Coventry University, England; &
Ioannis - Dionysios Salavrakos, North London University, England. 594

Modeling International Trade Flows of the Baltic Sea Region Countries.
Tiiu Paas
University of Tartu, Estonia. 607

The Spirit of the Emperor into the 21st Century: Japan's Perpetual Trade Surplus with the U.S.
Robert G. Vambery & James W. Gabberty
Pace University, USA. 618

The Effects of Foreign Trade Liberalization upon the Brazilian Level of Employment and upon
Industrial Structure: 1980/2000.

Nali de Jesus de Souza
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Brazil. 625

Self-enforcing Agreement on Transboundary Pollution and International Trade: A Differential Game.
F. Cabo, E. Escudero, & G. Martín-Herrán
Universidad de Valladolid Spain. 637

The Optimal Enforcement of Immigration Law: Reconsideration.
Chisato Yoshida
University of Sydney-Australia & Okayama University-Japan. 647

Import and Export Demand Elasticities Between the U.S. and the European Union Euro Currency Zone.
Albert J. Milhomme
Southwest Texas State University, USA. 657

Tax Cut, National Debt, Balance of Trade, and Dollar Rate of Exchange.
Albert J. Milhomme & Eric Blankmeyer
Southwest Texas State University, USA. 663

E-COMMERCE

An Empirical Exploration Demographic Factors that Influence Consumer Demand for International E-commerce.
Tyler T. Yu, Miranda M. Zhang & John Miller
Mercer University, USA. 668

E-Commerce Characteristics that Influence company Structure and Strategies.
Yildiz Y. Guzey
Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. 676

PRIVATAZION & TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Privatisation, De-regulation and Economic Growth - The Case of Ireland's Celtic Tiger.
Eoin Reeves
University of Limerick, Ireland. 686

Privatization in Southern European Economies: Success or Failure?
Sam Mirmirani & H.C. Li
Bryant College, USA. 696

Contract Enforcement: Mexico versus Postsocialist Countries.
Ryszard Zukowski
Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico. 706

Is Cuba's New Business Investment Policy a Success or Failure?: A Comparative Analysis of Economies in Transition.
Demetrios Giannaros
University of Hartford, USA. 719

Investment Decisions in Eastern Europe Analysing the Main Options: The Case of Poland.
David Floyd
Sunderland University, UK. 728

INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Creating Corporate Entrepreneurship: Associations of Process Elements Obstacles to Innovation, and
Strategy with Organization-Wide Commitment to Innovation.

Theodore T. Herbert
Rollins College, Florida, USA. 738

A Preliminary Study Estimating an Intra-National Economy Diffusion Equation for Automated
Teller Machines Using Panel Data.

Mark A. Nadler, Ashland University, USA;
John Kristoff, Diebold Incorporated, USA; &
Laura Fortney, Ashbrook Scholar, Ashland University, USA. 750

Women Entrepreneurs during Poland's Transition.
Bozena Leven
The College of New Jersey, USA. 762

Intellectual Capital as a base for Designing a Virtual Organization - The Case of Croatia
Vinko Belak, University of Split, Croatia; Branko Kovacevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia &
Marko Kolakovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 770

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Information Technology and Less Developed Countries.
Nancy Bertaux & Jamal Abu-Rashed
Xavier University, USA. 778

Reaching for Sustainability: A Critique.
Louis M. Seagull
Pace University, USA. 791

EDUCATION ISSUES

Globalisation and Higher Education: Development of the High Skills Trajectory.
Trefor Lewis & Tom Cockburn
University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK. 795

The Experience Economy: a Role for Interactive Online Business Education.
Val Clulow, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; &
Jan Brace-Govan, Monash University, Australia. 804

Author Index 813