Competitiveness Review: Volume 32 Issue 6

Review of Aliekperov, Adyl (2021): creating business and corporate strategy: an integrated strategic system, Routledge

Mutinda Teguh Widayanto

Perceptions of barriers to innovate in Colombian manufacturing firms: an analysis by technological intensity

Vanessa Pertuz, Luis Francisco Miranda

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that impede innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms, as measured by the level of technological intensity.

FDI inflows and bank deposits: evidence from 18 MENA economies

Abdulazeez Y.H. Saif-Alyousfi

This paper aims to examine and compare the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on bank deposits in aggregate as well as at the level of conventional and Islamic…

Can efficient transport moderate real sector productivity?

Noman Arshed, Muhammad Shahzad Sardar, Mubasher Iqbal

This study aims to test the role of infrastructure for economic growth. For this purpose, panel data of the world is selected from 1998 to 2018 and the study has used slope…

The Covid-19 pandemic and technical efficiency of Russian firms: a stochastic frontier production function approach

Parul Singh, Kashika Arora, Areej Aftab Siddiqui

This paper aims to undertake the efficiency analysis in the form of stochastic frontier to estimate a Cobb–Douglas production function by controlling for the heterogeneity across…

Women on boards of directors: the moderation role of female labour force participation

Reem Hamdan, Allam Hamdan, Bahaaeddin Alareeni, Osama F. Atayah, Layla Faisal Alhalwachi

This study aims to investigate the moderation role of the percentage of women in the country labour force in the relationship between firm-level governance factors (board size…

The impact of high-tech companies’ performance and growth on capital structure

Vladislav Spitsin, Darko B. Vukovic, Lubov Spitsina, Mustafa Özer

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the joint influence of two factors (companies’ performance and growth) on the company’s capital structure and to determine the…

Intellectual capital, bank stability and risk-taking: evidence from Asian emerging markets

Tamanna Dalwai, Dharmendra Singh, Ananda S.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of intellectual capital (IC) efficiency on the banks’ risk-taking and stability of Asian emerging markets.

Relative export competitiveness of the Nigerian cocoa industry

Nazir Muhammad Abdullahi, Qiangqiang Zhang, Saleh Shahriar, Sokvibol Kea, Xuexi Huo

This paper aims to derive the time-varying relative export competitiveness (REC) of the Nigerian cocoa sector against Nigeria’s share of world agricultural exports (REC_WA) and…