Table 2.1 shows the ages of the 230 students who entered INSEAD during the 1980/81 academic year. What can you make out of these numbers? Obνiously, the answer will depend upon who you are. Unless you haνe some objectiνe ...

Does the hotel industry fully exploit the e-marketing capabilities? The purpose of this study is to investigate the Internet marketing strategies and practices that are used in the hotel industry. Namely, it examines the ...

This book covers what the authors call the “full range of major forecasting methods.” These comprise of the traditional time series methods of decomposition, exponential smoothing, simple and multiple linear regression and ...

In this paper, key elements about the Fourth Industrial Revolution are set under examination. Concerns, challenges, and opportunities related to the Industry 4.0 are analyzed, and specific policies to deal with the challenges ...

Greek foreign policy during the Interwar period was heavily affected by the legacy of the Asia Minor Disaster. After the signing of the Peace Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923), Greece’s strategic aims focused on ...

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 ...

Since the economic crisis of 2008 the situation in Europe has worsen, leading small export companies to close down due to the depression, while governments cut their budgets. As a result, export promotion programs (EPPs) ...

In Chapter 8 simple regression and correlation were introduced and discussed. In simple regression the basic proposition is that an independent variable can be used to predict the value of some dependent variable (the ...

This paper investigates the profitability of technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), utilizing the FTSE/ASE-20 index over the period 1995- 2008. We focus on a less developed and efficient stock market, ...

The signature of the Lausanne Peace Treaty ?n 24 July 1923 marked the beginning of a new period in the history of the Cyprus Question, at least from a legal point of view, as Turkey officially recognized the annexation of ...

This book analyses the role of the European Parliament as an international actor and presents a new debate about its role outside the EU territory. It explores different policy areas including human rights, international ...

In business and economic series it is often true that a constant rate of growth prevails. This can happen with the sales of a company, GNP, consumption patterns, etc. For example, if the growth in GNP is 5% a year, it ...

In the preceding three chapters, several major classes of time-series forecasting methods were examined---exponential smoothing, decomposition, autoregressive/moving average, and filters. Various models within each ...

Τα συστήματα διοικητικής οργάνωσης του Κράτους είναι, ως γνωστόν, πολλά και ποικίλα, όλα όμως έχουν ένα κοινό γνώρισμα ότι δηλαδή κανένα τους δεν εφαρμόζεται κατά τρόπο απόλυτο, δεδομένου, ότι σε κάθε σύστημα υπάρχουν ...

Στο παρόν κείμενο αναπτύσσεται ένας προβληματισμός σχετικά με την κινητικότητα του ατόμου προς την επιχειρηματική προσπάΘεια. Η κινητικότητα αυτής της έκφρασης της ανθρώπινης συμπεριφοράς προσεγγίζεται μέσα από τον μεθοδολ ...

Η οριοθέτηση της έννοιας της επενδυσης είτε αυτή είναι "δημόσια" είτε "ιδιωτική" (παραγωγική) είναι πολλαπλώς επιτακτική και όχι μόνον διότι ο Έλλην Κυνικός Φιλόσοφος Αντισθένης διετύπωσε την άποψη, ότι "αρχή σοφίας ονομάτων ...

Η επιλογή του Μνημονίου είχε καταστεί σε πολύ μεγάλο βαθμό αναπόφευκτη, εφόσον αμέσως μετά τις εκλογές του 2009 η ακολουθούμενη οικονομική πολιτική είχε ως συνέπεια την αποδυνάμωση της διαπραγματευτικής θέσης της χώρας. ...

Κωδικοποίηση ως γνωστόν είναι η συγκέντρωση σε ένα ενιαίο κείμενο (σώμα) νομοθετικών κειμένων διατάξεων και όρων συνθηκών που αναφέρονται στο αυτό θέμα. Κατ' άλλη διατύπωση, η κωδικοποίηση αποτελεί συστηματική εργασία ...