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Front Section |
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Letter from The Dean, Letter from The Editor, Contents
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"The Economic Impact of Higher Education: A Case
Study of Georgia."
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David R. Kamerschen, Jeffrey M. Humphreys
Higher education has important social, political, and economic
benefits to any economy. The social benefits of education involve,
among other things, the opportunities it provides to understand and
design new, effective solutions to serious social problems and make
the world a better place. The political benefits of better education
include, among other things, the opportunities it provides to become
better-informed citizens, which, in turn, permits voting for elected
officials more rational.
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"Off the Tenure Track: The Hiring and Role of
Lecturers/Instructors and Visiting Accounting Faculty."
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Steven Hunt
This study provides implications about the strength of the tenure
system as well as information useful to universities in planning
staffing strategies and to individuals considering non tenure-track
positions.
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"Identifying Government Inefficiency: A Performance
Based Audit Approach to Downsizing Efforts in Texas."
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Juliana D. Lilly
This article describes what happens when organizations downsize
and analyzes the downsizing efforts of the Texas Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
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"External
Debt of Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis
of Debt and Growth." |
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Dr. G. Ramakrishna
This study presented the external debt scenario of Ethiopia over
its three economic regimes with a special reference to its economic
reform period. The trends in foreign debt across various regimes
indicate that Ethiopia has been a severely indebted country and
continues to be so even after the economic reforms in the 1990s.
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"Building
Blocks for an Evolutionary Theory of the
Firm: Review and Analysis."
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Demetri Kantarelis
My objective in this paper is to attempt to offer a conceptual description
of the evolutionary (entrepreneurial) theory of the firm.
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"Competitive
Disadvantage and Human Resource
Management Implications of HIV and AIDS in Africa:
The Case of Zambia." |
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Gerry Nkombo Muuka, Kenneth Kaoma
Mwenda, Alice P. Shemi, Lameck Zulu
… the AIDS epidemic is clearly Africa's current major development
challenge, as the Zambian case attempts to illustrate.
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"Africa's
Informal Sector with Zambia
as a Case Study: A Challenge to Scholars
to Close the Knowledge Gap." |
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Gerry Nkombo Muuka
[Africa’s] informal sector is huge, partly as a result
of the large
number of employees it absorbs due to inadequate jobs and
opportunities in the formal economy.
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