Learned helplessness occurs when one is unable to escape from a painful or aversive experience is unable to be escaped from (Hiroto & Seligman, 1975). The organism learns that it is helpless in and accepts its loss of ...

Purpose: This paper analyses how collaborative/opportunistic behaviours subsidised universityindustry partnerships are influencing the design/implementation of strategic knowledge management practices in emerging ...

Design/methodology/approach: By combining two sources of information about 683 Mexican subsidised industry-university partnerships from 2009 to 2016, this study adopted the structural equation modelling (SEM) to analyse ...

A growing number of studies suggest that only innovative subsidiaries generate positive technological effects in host countries. In this context, this paper explores the variability in the intensity of innovative activity ...

Based on behaviour of output growth and industrial sector prices, it tries to define the several stages comprising the cyclic trends of the Brazilian economy. Analyzes the behaviour of inflation rates and of relative prices, ...

In mid-2011, conditions deteriorated in the industrialized economies. Early in the year, instability in North Africa combined with other factors to push up fuel prices. Then, in March, the tragedy of the earthquake, ...

This article provides an overview of a number of changes that have taken place in the region's economy, together with their effects in terms of its social stratification, and analyses the different social sectors' options ...