New Zealand achieved 50% of self sufficiency in liquid fuels by 1990, which then declined to 36% by the year 1996 due to falling local production and the growing domestic demand for oil and gas. In spite of this falling ...

The world recessionary period of the 1980's forced many governments to re-evaluate their economic management strategies. Today, existing strategies are being supplanted by a belief that economic growth is best achieved by ...

The purpose of this study is to examine differences between low vs. high-performance exporters. For this purpose, the effects of selected firm-related and export strategy-related variables on three selected measures of ...

Previous research has suggested that audit firm structure can explain a number of variations in audit fee profile. This thesis focuses on the efficiency effects of audit firm structure by examining the external audit fee ...

The ascendancy of service sectors in developed economies over the last quarter century has raised questions. Some have asserted that it is the cause of the productivity slowdown that has beset industrialised nations since ...