Purpose – This paper aims to provide additional international evidence on the initial public offerings (IPOs) by examining the initial performance and two main determinants of short-run underpricing of 169 IPOs listed ...

Innovative entrepreneurial attempts are rather limited in Cyprus, compared to the EU average. Since its conception in 2011, the Enterprise Liaison Office at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) works vigorously towards ...

This paper investigates whether, in intercultural secondary schools in Greece, some specific innovative forms of bilingual education are applied and additionally examines the degree of their effectiveness. These forms refer ...

A crucial problem for planners dealing with the management of water resources is to choose among the available alternative scenarios. In the presented methodology the result is a combination of the data of all the important ...

This research examined the effectiveness of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on reducing occupational injuries, fatalities and increasing effectiveness. This research examined factors that may ...

Influencer marketing is currently the most popular marketing technique with a great ability to engage a relevant audience and create authentic content. It has been found that influential marketing can generate a return ...

Es ist Tatsache, dass im westlichen theologischen Denken während der längeren Zeit seiner Geschichte eine oftmals intensive dialektische Antithese zwischen Institution und Charisma zu beobachten ist, mit der Folge, dass ...

Patient empowerment delivers health and social care services that enable people to gain more control of their healthcare needs. With the advancement of sensor technologies, it is increasingly possible to monitor people’s ...

Specialization inhibits or prohibits interdisciplinary communication among diverse areas. It contributes to segmentation, which becomes a serious problem when several of those areas should depend upon knowledge which exists ...

The assessment of risk in medicine is a crucial task, and depends on scientific knowledge derived by systematic clinical studies on factors affecting health, as well as on particular knowledge about the current status of ...

The research and industrial community started to think of more complex application scenarios for wireless sensor networks, where the use of mobile sensor nodes is essential. The support of mobile sensor nodes in such ...

This rejoinder attempts to show that Bickhard's criticism is irrelevant to our theory and epistemologically one-sided. It is irrelevant because our theory is pragmaticist and interactivist at a number of levels ignored by ...

Time sharing computer configurations have introduced a new dimension in applying statistical and mathematical models to sequential decision problems. When the outcome of one step in the process influences subsequent ...

It is generally recognised that indicator-based research forms a substantial part both of the everyday practice and of the current theoretical pursuits in an extensive set of different scientific fields that relate to the ...

What is the form of government of the EU? And, how is the institutional governance of the Eurozone evolving? These questions have become pressing during the last years. On the one hand, the Euro-crisis and the legal and ...

What is the form of government of the European Union (EU)? And how is the institutional governance of the Eurozone evolving? These questions have become pressing during the last few years. On the one hand, the Euro-crisis ...

Purpose – Fraud omnipresent in the media, the corporate world and the academic literature has attracted a great deal of research interest. Fraud and its various types and forms have been characterized as significant contributing ...

The last decades the world faced an unpredictable influence from globalization. It is developed so high and quickly that almost impact every part of organizations and business environment. Small and medium enterprises at ...

The current research investigates the benefits an investor will have if he diversifies his portfolio internationally by attaining high expected return, minimizing costs and maintaining a balance between the risk and the ...

Purpose – To critically examine two significant developments for the regulation and supervision of virtual assets and virtual assets services providers: the amendment of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendation ...