1885 papers
Despite high English proficiency in both nations, this study finds that Finnish firms exporting more to Sweden employ a higher share of Swedish-speaking personnel, particularly among small firms, suggesting that specific language skills remain crucial for trade even when English is widely spoken.
This mixed-method study demonstrates that brand communication, when moderated by CSR and cultural lifestyles, serves as a strategic tool for building reputable brands, enhancing consumer preferences, and translating into brand equity.
This paper utilizes a natural experiment in Schleswig-Holstein to demonstrate that both the number of votes allocated per voter and higher levels of social deprivation significantly increase the proportion of unused votes, thereby exacerbating representational inequalities.
This study integrates remote sensing and spatial econometrics to identify pixel-level wind energy corridors in West Bengal, India, revealing that the Spatial Error Model best explains the negative impact of tree cover and built-up areas on wind potential while highlighting the high development potential in the state's southern and coastal districts.
This study utilizes panel data from 2000 to 2024 across D-8 Muslim-majority economies to demonstrate that while natural resource use and Islamic banking significantly promote green growth, fiscal policy currently hinders it due to fossil-fuel subsidies, a dynamic that is critically shaped by institutional quality and income levels.
This study analyzes the drivers of self-employment versus paid employment and the consequences of youth unemployment in Ethiopia's Arsi Zone during the COVID-19 lockdowns using Propensity Score Matching and Structural Equation Modeling to inform targeted government interventions.
This study empirically demonstrates that the adoption of digital maritime logistics significantly enhances lead time performance in Nigerian seaports by improving forecast accuracy, order fulfillment, real-time inventory tracking, and delivery times.
This paper demonstrates that the USDT premium serves as a real-time, zero-latency signal for distinguishing between traditional finance crises, which drive positive premiums, and crypto-native crises, which drive negative premiums, thereby offering a unique empirical tool for crisis regime identification independent of delayed macroeconomic data.
This study confirms the existence of a resource curse in 15 mineral-rich Indian states by demonstrating a negative association between resource abundance and development outcomes, while finding that District Mineral Foundation (DMF) funds alone are insufficient to mitigate this effect without stronger institutional governance.
This study demonstrates that in SMEs, AI adoption enhances innovation performance not directly, but indirectly through a serial mediation pathway where adoption builds absorptive capacity to foster entrepreneurial agility, a process that is significantly strengthened by the firm's digital maturity.