Collective appropriation and cooperative uses of mobile telephony among Burmese fishers by Aricat, Rajiv George, Ling, Richard

“…Early research on mobile phone adoption among fishers followed an economistic perspective, focusing mainly on access to market price information. …”
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Selecting a mentor: guide for a Protégé by Memon, Jamshed, Abd Rozan, Zaidi, Uddin, Mueen, Shah, Asadullah, , Dzurllkanian

“…The development of entrepreneurial skills within the education system increases the possibility of producing more entrepreneurs in future. Many economists now believe that entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic growth of a country. …”
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Stock market volatility and exchange rate regime in Malaysia: a preliminary analysis / Noor Zahirah Mohd Sidek, Norridzwan Abidin and Azli Umar by Mohd Sidek, Noor Zahirah, Abidin, Norridzwan, Umar, Azli

“…The choice of exchange rate regime and its possible impact on economic performance has recently become a new area of interest amongst both economists and policy makers. The study on the impact of exchange rate regime on financial performance, however, is relatively scarce, partly due to theoretical ambiguity and the definition of financial performance itself. …”
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia. by Serra, D, Serneels, P, Barr, A

“…Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. …”

Once more: When did globalisation begin? by O'Rourke, K, Williamson, J

“…Is globalisation 50, 500 or 5,000 years old? Most economists take the ‘big bang’ view, and think globalisation happened very recently. …”

Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia. by Serra, D, Serneels, P, Barr, A

“…Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. …”

Stylized facts and close dialogue: methodology in economic geography by Clark, G

“…One difference between economists and geographers is the significance attached by the former to stylized facts and the very different significance attached by the latter to the diversity of economic life. …”

A minimally nonanthropocentric economics: what is it, is it necessary, and can it avert the biodiversity crisis? by Vucetich, JA, Damania, R, Cushman, SA, Macdonald, EA, Burnham, D, Offer-Westort, T, Bruskotter, JT, Feltz, A, Van Eeden, L, Macdonald, DW

“…That second need augments independent calls by economists and policy experts to take better account of human well-being.…”

Agribusiness entrepreneurial intention: The roles of psychological traits, situational factors, perceived behaviour control and entrepreneurial education / Aki @ Zaki Aman by Aman, Aki @ Zaki

“…Agribusiness is one of the important elements in a country's economic development. Economists agree that agribusiness is one of the contributors to the country's growth and provides employment opportunities. …”
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China’s pattern of growth moving to sustainability and reducing inequality by Guo, Yating, Rosland, Anitha, Ishak, Suryati, Muhamad Senan, Mohamad Khair Afham

“…In this study, the questionnaire was developed on the Likert scale to collect the data from the economists to test the relationship between the hypotheses. …”

An overview of the changes and practices in the Japanese human resource management by Abdullah, Rashid, Ahmad, Zalena, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman

“…Early research on industrial organization tended to emphasize the cultural uniqueness of Japanese firms i.e. industrial relations, lifetime employment, and seniority wages and enterprise unionism were all proclaimed as uniquely Japanese and explained by cultural features. Recently, economists have explained Japanese industrial characteristics based on new developments in industrial organization research.…”
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Revisiting the 'Siliconisation of Asia: industrial policies and creative cluster in Malaysia by Abd. Manan, Mohd Shahrudin

“…The article calls for more specific and contextualized researches on the issues of spatiality between the industrial policies and creative cluster, particularly in Malaysia as well as in the regional level of Southeast Asia that can benefit policy practitioners, economists, urban planners, academics and researchers alike.…”
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Revisiting the ‘Siliconisation of Asia’: industrial policies and creative cluster in Malaysia by Abd Manan, Mohd Shahrudin

“…The article calls for more specific and contextualized researches on the issues of spatiality between the industrial policies and creative cluster, particularly in Malaysia as well as in the regional level of Southeast Asia that can benefit policy practitioners, economists, urban planners, academics and researchers alike.…”
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Islamic prayer, spirituality and productivity: an exploratory conceptual analysis by Al Haq, M Ashraf, Abd. Wahab, Norazlina, Abdul Ghani, Abdullah, Ahmad, Nor Hayati

“…Nevertheless what is lacking is that the policy makers in the Islamic world need to initiate whether there exist any linkages between prayer and productivity, which needs to be appreciated more by them, as well as by Islamic economists and social scientists, Islamic business professionals and Islamic jurists, and then through a concerted effort and dynamic fact finding mission and verification to ascertain the Qur’anic beliefs in our daily lives. …”
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Data clustering using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model for Islamic country currency: an econometrics method for Islamic financial engineering by Abu Bakar, Nashirah, Rosbi, Sofian

“…The findings show ARIMA (1, 1, 1) is suitable for clustering the data between January 2010 until April 2017.The importance of this findings is to provide economists and researchers understand the dynamic behavior of currency movement. …”
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Does social capital induce children educational attainment? Evidence from rural community in Terengganu, Malaysia by Abdul Hakim, Roslan, Ismail, Russayani, Abdul Razak, Nor Azam

“…The determinants of educational attainment among children have become one of the main research agenda among scholars, educationists and economists alike. In most studies, the focus is on the relationship between educational attainment and factors such as the quality of teachers, schools, educational technologies, curriculum design, the financial and human capital aspect of the families and the ability of children themselves. …”
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Environmental policy in transition economies : the effectiveness of pollution changes by Söderholm, Patrik

“…Most economists and analysts claim that extended use of pollution charges in environmental policy will have substantial efficiency advantages in countries undergoing transition to market economies. …”
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Taboos, agriculture and poverty. by Stifel, D, Fafchamps, M, Minten, B

“…Although cultural practices often have important consequences for household consumption and economic performance, they are seldom studied by economists. To fill this gap we study the impact of taboos on agriculture and poverty. …”

The macroeconomics of trend inflation by Ascari, G, Sbordone, A

“…Most macroeconomic models for monetary policy analysis are approximated around a zero inflation steady state, but most central banks target an inflation rate of about 2 percent. Many economists have recently proposed even higher inflation targets to reduce the incidence of the zero lower bound constraint on monetary policy. …”

Separate neural pathways process different decision costs by Rudebeck, P, Walton, M, Smyth, A, Bannerman, D, Rushworth, M

“…Behavioral ecologists and economists emphasize that potential costs, as well as rewards, influence decision making. …”