Papers by Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar
Asian Journal of Business and management, 2012
Tourism as an infant industry has affected socio-economic status of countries during recent years... more Tourism as an infant industry has affected socio-economic status of countries during recent years. This industry is regarded as one of the important income resources in countries at present which plays a major role in creating employment and establishment of new economic and income opportunities. Impact of tourism on all types of socio-economic status like regional production, employment, level of expenditures, value-added of service sector especially restaurant and hotel industry, banking and financial affairs reveals its importance in economy of countries. Given that Iran is among the ten first countries in the world in terms of tourism attractions the present paper has been conducted to evaluate the relationship between tourism industry and economic growth in Iran during the years 1980-2009 using standard Granger causality test as well as error correction model. Gross domestic product variable has been used as economic growth index and number of tourists has been applied as the r...
The current study investigates the relationships between tourist satisfaction and different desti... more The current study investigates the relationships between tourist satisfaction and different destination attributes in Malaysia. Review of related literature provided the scope of identifying basic aspects of tourist satisfaction, destination attributes and satisfaction measurement.
One of the most significant parameters effective on human capital performance is the role of indi... more One of the most significant parameters effective on human capital performance is the role of individual health and its related indexes in enhancing economic level of a country so that one of the important subjects is investment in individuals’ education. Among health features of a society we can refer to high life expectancy, low death rate in children, healthy nutrition, degree of medical advancements and the amount of costs that the government and family spend in the health sector and low-cost services before birth. In this survey the relationship between health and economic growth in Organization Islamic Conference member states has been evaluated by means of time series data during the years 2001-2009 given to other effective factors on the economic growth such as life expectancy, fertility rate and etc through a data panel model (panel data) in the framework of a Semi log regression model. Obtained results reveal that increased life expectancy is leaded to enhance economic grow...
The current study investigates factors that influen ce tourist satisfaction. The research framewo... more The current study investigates factors that influen ce tourist satisfaction. The research framework was constructed based on the extensive literature review to establish the hypothesis. The questionnaire was designed and included a total of eight attributes factors and thirty sub attributes identified to be examined. The results found fifteen satisfactory factors, eight dissatisfactory factors and seven indifferent factors. This study revealed that factors have significant effect on ov erall tourist satisfaction. In addition, results confirmed that overall tourist satisfaction is significantly different based on some controlling factors, namely demographic characteris tics, cultural characteristics travel behaviour characteristics and information source.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016
Asia Pacific Business Review, 2014
This study analyses the influence of host-site institutional support, foreign ownership and regio... more This study analyses the influence of host-site institutional support, foreign ownership and regional production linkages on firm-level technological capabilities using data from automotive firms in Indonesia. The results show that host-site institutional support and foreign ownership are positively correlated with technological capabilities. In addition, regional linkages show a significant and positive link on technological capabilities. However, regional linkages and foreign ownership explain more strongly technological capabilities than host-site institutional support in automotive firms in Indonesia. This evidence suggests that the supporting high-tech environment require further strengthening to stimulate higher technological capabilities in the automotive industry in Indonesia.
Conference Presentations by Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar
The paper aims to provide a thorough statistical analysis of marine fuel prices, including the hi... more The paper aims to provide a thorough statistical analysis of marine fuel prices, including the high sulphur (HS 380) and marine gas oil (MGO) prices, to indicate bunker price fluctuations in four major world bunkering spots: Houston Rotterdam, Singapore, and Fujairah. In addition, the derived time series of the difference between HS and marine gas oil (MGO) are presented, supporting further operators' decisions on technical and operational measures. This analysis is a necessary step to support decisions related to fuels and in this regard with carbon emissions and levies.
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Papers by Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar
Conference Presentations by Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar