"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from so…
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"Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something …
Praktisch en technisch boek over de aanpak om te komen tot een daadwerkelijke "groene" IT (green computing).
"Unlike any other book on the topic, Efficiency and sustainability in the energy and chemical industries prepares engineers for the transition from fossil-based, non-sustainable technologies to sustainable low-waste procedures using renewable energy and resources ..."--Page 4 of…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship federal Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant allocation has with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the various elements closely associated with efficient spending (efficiency), estimated income …
Organizations are under constant threat from global competition, socioeconomic factors, and political forces that are often unforeseen and dynamic. Consequently, decision makers adopt strategies, some including the principles of modularity, as a countermeasure. The problem addre…
This dissertation empirically investigates the inter-related issues in the emerging markets. The first issue, we examine is portfolio optimization in emerging stock markets using Mean-Variance theorem and Extreme Value theory. We compare the optimal portfolio selected under Safe…
This dissertation investigates the productive performance of the private manufacturing sector of Egypt, particularly within the context of economic reforms undertaken since the early 1990s. Beginning in 1991, the Egyptian government implemented reforms to achieve macroeconomic s…
It is often argued that monetary instability reduces the informational content of market signals and thereby hinders the efficient allocation of investment. Essay I, uses a signal extraction framework to give empirical content to this idea. In particular, we show why this framew…
This study examines the financial development and economic growth for the case of Malaysia. Particularly our interest is in the causality of economic growth and financial market development and the determinants of firm's financing choices. This research investigates the causalit…
In recent times, there has been an increased interest in wind energy due to concerns about the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels and their rising prices. Most wind turbines in use today are conventional wind mills with three airfoil shaped blades arraigned around a horizo…
This thesis consists of three papers. The first one investigates and compares both current and proposed Indonesian income tax structures from the efficiency point of view, whereas in the former, earned income is taxed with different rates and interest income is taxed uniformly, …
Scope and method of study. The agricultural sector of Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest growing sectors in the country. During the last thirty years the Saudi government has paid more attention to this sector, increasing expenditure and offering interest-free loans to farmers; …
The study emphasizes the applicability of micro economic models in assessing the producer's efficiency and optimization behavior. The choice of the subject, i.e., petroleum refining, poses complications due to its multiple output nature and the inherently complex oil market. We …
This is a study of two prominent features of the privatization policy in Malaysia: politics and efficiency. This dissertation puts forward the claim that political interference is detrimental in any privatization policy. Cronyism and nepotism have perverted free-market mechanism…
The concept of cointegration has become a cornerstone in applied time series analysis to study the long-run equilibrium relationship among the series. The idea was originally put forth by Engle and Granger (1987). According to the Granger Representation Theorem cointegrated seri…
Reconsiders the central purpose of social regulation-the abatement or control of risks to society. Recounts the experiences of pioneering agencies that have confronted the risk-control challenge directly, developing operational capacities for specifying risk concentrations, prob…