This paper describes the M3-Competition, the latest of the M-Competitions. It explains the reasons for conducting the competition and summarizes its results and conclusions. In addition, the paper compares such results / ...

The course of the Greek economy in the past few years has been at the epicentre of international debate, as part of the fallout from the global financial crisis. The Greek economy’s present position within the global economy ...

Description: The prediction of the valuation of the “quality” of firm accounting disclosure is an emerging economic problem that has not been adequately analyzed in the relevant economic literature. While there are a ...

This paper attempts to explain the determinants of intertemporal variations in housing prices in Cyprus over the period spanning from the first quarter of 2006 until the second quarter of 2014. The analysis focuses on ...

The idea of inclusive education has featured very highly in the educational priorities of many countries. Our involvement with the literature that relates to inclusion leads to the conclusion that, if we are interested ...

This paper predicts the type of business firms and managers most likely to emerge in the 21st century. The forecasts are based on rational principles which avoid the common mistakes made in the past by long-term ...

In the complex business environment that exists today, executive responsibility can no longer be allocated only to the limited traditional administrative resources: manpower, money, materials, and market behavior.

The chief object of this paper is to explore the Pareto principle in relation to higher education quality. Consequently the paper relates to 80/20 rule’ application in Greek higher education regarding quality. The study ...

Purpose - The paper investigates the problems faced by unemployed and underemployed graduate students in a small European country. It focuses on the way young people adjust to unemployment and underemployment and on the ...

The aim of Business Continuity Management (BCM) is to manage risks that impact on the normal operation of an organization maintaining enterprise and operational continuity. Contemporary business environment is so erratic ...

This project includes an evaluation plan of the HRM (code No: PRBM021) assessment strategy and the feedback mechanisms employed for the assessment strategy. It also discusses the effectiveness of online learning platform ...

The capital market effects of IAS/IFRS have been examined in the international literature and have indicated that the effects are significant. In the contrary, evidence drawn from the Athens Stock Exchange indicates that ...

In this paper we propose to model short-term interest rates by taking into consideration both the asymmetric properties of returns, using Pearson’s type IV distribution, and the time-varying volatility, using GARCH models. ...

In our century everybody lives in the process of selling and buying some services, products or ideas. A proper marketing strategy is one of the most important and long-life parts in the success of any companies. Within ...

It is more than obvious that the demand for higher education in Cyprus has been increased gradually the last decade. Considering that the public institutes of higher education can not cover the increased demand, a number ...

This thesis study is developed under the lights of new challenge related to rural tourism sector in Cyprus. With the effects of emerging term attraction techniques from a Marketing perspective, agro tourism concept has ...

Tourism is very important for every country for many years now. Many economies of many countries depend on the tourism. As years go by, Cyprus economy depends on the tourism industry and every year there is a growth on the ...

The purpose of the current study was to assess f or possible relationships between the internalization of the thin ideal by the media, disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, feelings of attractiveness and investment ...

The results of a content based image retrieval system can be evaluated by several performance measures, each one employing different evaluation criteria. Many of the methods used in the field of information retrieval have ...

The present study refers to the meaning attributed to intimate partner violence by counselors supporting women who have experienced abuse and seek for help. The main focus of the study is the investigation of the effect of ...