Moving Beyond Culturalism and Formalism: Islam,Women, and Political Unrest in the Middle East

ABSTRACT

Scenes of political unrest throughout the Middle East are often coupled with media reports and public debates in the United States that have a recurring theme: the relationship between women and Islam. After discussing the culturalist accounts that portray women as being in grave danger from Islam and in need of Western protection and supervision, this contribution examines an emerging trend in political science developed under the influence of the formalism of neoclassical economics. The study argues that despite ostensibly universal assumptions about human behavior and alleged objectivity, the theoretical foundations of neoclassical economics and its methodological formalism fall short in providing an alternative to culturalism, and, instead, reinforce the misperceptions and misunderstandings about the region.     

Output–employment relationship across employment status: evidence from Turkey

This paper investigates output–employment relationships across different employment statuses and formal versus informal employment divisions for Turkey. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships between the aggregate output with all of the formal employment statuses. A further investigation for short-run relationships reveals no statistically significant relationships between aggregate output and total employment and between aggregate output and casual employment but there is a significant short-run relationship between aggregate output and total regular employment. Thus, a sustainable economic growth policy should aim to create formal and regular employment.     

Static or Dynamic Efficiency: Horizontal Merger Effects in the Wireless Telecommunications Industry

Review of Industrial Organization - This paper studies five mergers in the European wireless telecommunication industry and analyzes their impact on prices and capital expenditures of both merging...     

Food safety knowledge,behavior and attitude of Libyan consumers

This research aims to study and analyze the relationship between consumer awareness and consumer protection issues relating to food safety; the researcher defined a set of variables associated to consumer awareness in this research to study the relationship between this awareness and between some of the economic and social characteristics of consumers such as the level of income for the head of household, level of education for the research samples and some other characteristics related to awareness of the consumers. To achieve this goal the researcher prepared a questionnaire for this purpose which been fulfilled from a random sample of Libyan students who are studying at Near East University in various specialist and stages of university study. To analysis these data the researcher has used non-parametric statistical analysis for the previous relationship, due to the nature of metadata where Chi square has been used to study the moral awareness of the relationship between the consumer and all of the level of income and level of education. These results showed the presence of statistically significant relationship between the level of consumer awareness and the level of income and the level of education, the results also showed that there were significant correlation between consumer awareness and all of the level of income and level of education. The study concluded that consumer protection policies should be directed to teach and educate consumers with a focus on lower-income segments of society and in the lower level of education.     

How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta-analytic review

Coupled with the increasing concern toward sustainability and sustainable development issues, environmental innovation practices have been of burgeoning interest among both scholars and practitioners. Building on this, the main purpose of this study is to quantitatively aggregate the extant empirical research on eco-innovation and firm performance and to assess the role of moderating factors in this theoretical relationship by pursuing a meta-analytic approach. To serve this objective, 196 effects based upon 70 studies including more than 25,000 firms (N = 25,412) were meta-analytically examined. Quantitative evidence drawn from the meta-analysis indicates that organizational eco-innovation exerts the strongest influence on firm performance. Moreover, the meta-analytic findings suggest that significant variations in the correlation between eco-innovation and firm performance exist across different performance types, and the magnitude of the eco-innovation–firm performance association is stronger in developing compared with developed countries. This meta-analytic review is expected to considerably contribute to the pertinent literature by means of improving the understanding of the relevance of eco-innovation typology to firm performance.     

Intra- and inter-firm US trade

Bivariate Tobit gravity regressions using 2000–2007 US trade data show that US-based firms take advantage of positive forces (e.g., economic freedom) operating in foreign markets more through affiliates than third parties. Likewise, transactions with affiliates are deterred a lot more by negative forces (e.g., distance). Additionally, trade flows are higher (lower) with non-OECD (OECD) countries that are more politically free. Decompositions of the Tobit effects and the predicted-to-actual trade ratios indicate a two-pronged strategy for policymakers: develop targeted policies to specific hurdles to intra-firm trade and work aggressively on increasing market access for US exports.     

致力科研 着眼市场 为交通事业发展贡献力量

一、公司概况 江苏省交通科学研究院(简称江苏交科院)始建于1978年,原隶属于江苏省交通厅,是省交通厅和科技厅领导下的交通运输工程综合性科研设计机构.2002年8月完成改制,更名为江苏省交通科学研究院有限公司.     

展示蓝箭技术精华 推出蓝箭精品新锐

蓝箭集团是一家集科、工、贸于一体的企业集团,有现代化的企业技术研发中心.蓝箭人始终坚持"产业科技化、营销全球化、品牌国际化"的发展目标,牢记"使用户满意为中心,使用户高度满意为目标"的经营服务理念,不断为广大用户提供各种高质量的产品.     

自主创新是亚东制药的源头活水

一、企业概况 回音必集团浙江亚东制药有限公司(由浙江亚东制药有限公司2006年更名而来)的前身是由三家国有企业联合出资组建而成的集体企业,1997年底改制成为有限责任公司,是杭州回音必集团的核心企业.公司注册资本6008万元,总资产3.7亿元,拥有片剂、胶囊剂、口服液、颗粒剂、外用洗剂和中药提取等8条生产线,现拥有"回音必"系列产品72只,产品畅销全国各地,"回音必"品牌得到迅速提升,连续多次蝉联浙江省著名商标.