Global inflationary trends have for many decades eroded the purchasing power of money and have become embodied in the structure of security yields. This article explores the uses of various data formats to represent ...

Purpose – This paper examines the relationship between credibility, the dimensions of power and a number of knowledge acquisition attributes. Design/methodology/approach – The study involves a questionnaire-based survey ...

This report offers a contribution to the theories related to firms’ export performance. Job Satisfaction and behavioral and outcome performance of export managers have received attention in export literature. However, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship of price changes in the southern European E.U. member states through their stock markets and especially among the exchange markets of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, ...

Le contraste est désormais considérable enrre la situation grecque caractérisée globalement par l'abandon d'un rrend durable de croissance, une instabilité politique chronique et de fortes tensions sociales, et celle de ...

This study investigates the perceived value of mathematics in students from Greek Cypriot Gymnasium. It also examines individual differences in the perceived value of mathematics in relation to students’ gender, grades, ...

Chess is an intellectually demanding game played by millions of people around the world. Yet unlike tennis or other competitive sports there are few changes in the rankings of chess players. There have only been twelve ...

This paper investigates into what extent, and in what ways, Knowledge Management (KM) and Learning Organisation (LO) constitute new means for the managerial appropriation of the knowledge and skills of workers.

C'est vrai d' apres ce qu'on dit de temps en temps sur l'Administration Publique Grecque que: " L' Administration Publique est par nature consacrée à la réalisation de l' Idèe de la Democratie, de l'Etat de Droit el de ...

La présente note ne prétend pas à une définition générale et exhaustive de l'investissement telle qu'elle pourrait être formulée en science économique ou en analyse comptable. Elle se limite à évoquer les differentcs ...

Leadership is a topic of almost universal fascination. Popular attention focuses on it because its overtones of success, power, and prestige are traditionally admired and pursued human goals; academic interest in it is ...

Les questions sur la Décentralisation ainsi que l' emsemble de l' Administration Publique et Locale ont a pnori une importance capitale. Mais leur importance gagne parfois d'ampleur selon les circonstances dans lesquelles ...

This conclusion aims to summarize the major issues surrounding forecasting, as well as the extensive empirical evidence proving our inability to accurately predict the future. In addition, it discusses our resistance to ...

The research for the investigation of the quality of the Corporate Annual Reports (CAR) and particularly the part of the narrative information contained in it has long been underestimated, mainly due to the lack of tools ...

La teoria economica y el sentido comun nos indican una serie de factores que pueden intervenir en la formacion de las estructuras economicas. Lo que resta, por tanto, es descubrir los que son realmente cruciales en nuestra ...