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Sectoral Productivity and Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: Panel Evidence from China and the Former Soviet Union

This paper analyzes panel data from China and former Soviet Union countries to demonstrate that while their distinct initial industrial structures led to divergent de-industrialization patterns (inverse U-shaped vs. U-shaped), sector-specific productivity growth, rather than inter-sectoral productivity gaps, serves as the primary driver of structural transformation in both regions.

Taehyun Ryu2026-08-13

📈 economics

Enhancing Accounting Decision Quality through Business Intelligence Capabilities with Accounting Information Quality as a Mediator and Technology Investment Readiness as a Moderator

This study demonstrates that Business Intelligence capabilities (data management, analytics, and reporting) enhance accounting decision quality in Jordanian organizations by improving accounting information quality, a relationship that is further strengthened by technology investment readiness.

Khaled Aldarab’ah, Huthaifa Al-Hazaima, Tamara Adel Al-maaitah, Asma’a Al-Amarneh, Atef B. Al-Qur'an, Areej Faeik Hijazi (…)2026-08-13

📈 economics

Transition Finance as a Climate Mitigation Strategy: Evidence from ESG Performance of Chinese Carbon-Intensive Firms

This study demonstrates that verified transition finance significantly enhances the ESG performance and firm value of Chinese carbon-intensive companies by driving green capital expenditure, innovation, and emission reductions, with particularly strong effects in state-owned, highly digitalized, and path-dependent firms within key industrial sectors.

Shaozhou Qi, Zhili Shen, Kai Li2026-08-13

📈 economics

Market Share Competition in the Japanese Gasoline Market: A Two-Stage Game Approach

This study employs a two-stage game theoretical model and empirical analysis of Japanese prefectural data from 1999 to 2022 to demonstrate that retail gasoline prices are significantly driven by both crude oil fluctuations and market concentration resulting from deregulation.

Keiichi Kawamura2026-08-13

📈 economics

Determinants of Financial Management Practices in Non-Governmental Health Organizations in Tanzania

This study identifies that the financial sustainability of Non-Governmental Health Organizations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is significantly determined by a combination of internal capabilities—specifically staff fundraising skills and internal controls—and external factors like macroeconomic conditions and government policies, which collectively explain 22.3% of the variance in their long-term financial resilience.

Edibily Egbert Kabyazi, David Msokwe, Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo, Beatrice Mkunde, Baraka Kamwela2026-08-13

📈 economics

Deconstructing the Normative-Descriptive Gap in Financing Decisions: A Hybrid SEM-AHP Analysis of Managerial Biases in an Emerging Market

This study employs a hybrid SEM-AHP framework to analyze financing decisions among Iranian industrial managers, revealing that anchoring and regret aversion—not overconfidence—are the dominant biases driving a significant divergence between normative capital structure benchmarks and actual practices in volatile emerging markets.

raheleh dabiri, Mohammad Vaez Barzani, Saeed Samadi2026-08-13

📈 economics

The interlinkages of macroeconomics policy instruments, fuel prices and GDP growth: A case for Namibia

This paper utilizes a Generalised Methods of Moments framework on Namibian quarterly data to demonstrate that rising fuel prices significantly hinder GDP growth and that current macroeconomic policies suffer from misaligned budget allocations and inconsistent prioritization of primary industries, necessitating flexible, country-specific interventions to optimize resource use and foster sustainable development.

KENNEDY. M KALUNDU, Helmke. J Sartorius von Bach2026-08-13

📈 economics

Activity Without Authority: A Typology of the Entrepreneurial University Based on the Locus of Commercialization Control

This study reconceptualizes the entrepreneurial university by shifting focus from the breadth of activities to the locus of commercialization authority, using a systematic literature review to develop a novel five-configurational typology that links decision rights over intellectual property and ventures to distinct entrepreneurial pathways and performance outcomes.

Orkhan Vatankah, Asiman Ilyasov2026-08-13

📈 economics

Career networks, bureaucratic authority, and political selection

This paper analyzes career histories of Chinese officials from 1979 to 2020 to demonstrate that exposure to high-authority counterparts through co-service networks serves as a key observable indicator of favorable organizational screening and selection into administrative elite positions.

Doojin Ryu, Han Sun2026-08-13

📈 economics

Managing Organisational Change for Low-Carbon Transition in National Oil Companies: Evidence from Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)

This study utilizes a mixed-methods case study of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to demonstrate that while leadership commitment and policy support exist, successful low-carbon transition in resource-dependent National Oil Companies is currently hindered by technical, financial, and cultural barriers, necessitating an integrated change management framework to align organizational readiness with decarbonisation goals.

Mohammed Bello Umar, Tan Hai Chen2026-08-13

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