The origins of forecasting can be traced back to the beginning of human civilization with attempts to predict the weather, although forecasting as a field first appeared in the 1940s and attracted more followers from the ...

Στερούμενη πλέον η Ελλάς, του "κέρατος της Αμαλθείας", της μυθολογικής αιγός και ως εκ τούτου μη δυναμένη θηλάζουσα εξ αυτού, ως άλλος ΖΕΥΣ, να αποκτήσει ό,τι επιθυμεί σήμερα υπό δεινή συγκυρία, (Πολιτική, Οικονομική, ...

Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση έχει ασχοληθεί κατ' επανάληψη και με το θέμα των Εθνικών Δημοσίων Διοικήσεων επί σκοπώ μέσω του κατά το δυνατόν εκσυγχρονισμού τους, αυτές να οδηγηθούν σε συγκλίνουσες διοικητικές ρυθμίσεις, τείνουσες σε ...

Η τρέχουσα δεθνής και εθνική οικονομική συγκυρία "επανέφερε" κατά τρόπο έντονο στο προσκήνιο το θέμα της προσέλκυσης άμεσων ξένων ιδιωτικών επενδύσεων, δεδομένου ότι αυτές θεωρούνται πολύτιμο "εργαλείο" για την παραγωγή ...

The priests of Delfphi have not been alone in providing forecasts for a price. Since the dawn of civilization, a great many fortune tellers, soothsayers, wizards, augurs and astrologers have sought to fulfil the human need ...

Greece and Greek firms are behind their counterparts in advanced countries. This paper discusses the situation of Greek firms and proposes various strategies to be able to more successfully compete in the emerging new economy.

In the Debt Dilemma of Developing Nations, Chris Carvounis provides an insightful overview of the external debt problems currentrly plaguing a number of developing countries. The book is neiher comprehensive in tits handling ...

Data collected from black and white workers in three organizations indicate that workers living in communities with different perceived levels of prosperity have different job satisfaction. A relatively less affluent ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article analyzes whether communication can solve all management problems. With the rapid technological developments in methods of communication, corporate managers have become more increasingly dependent on electronic ...

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 ...

This study provides evidence drawn from publicly traded companies in Greece on the predictability of assets growth with respect to firm performance. We employ discriminant analysis and a logit specification to test our ...

The purpose of this study is to provide evidence drawn from publicly traded companies in Greece as far as the predictability of going-concern opinions, and other business situations (problem companies, tax contingent ...

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.

Comunication is onc of the most widely used and least understood concepts current among managerof modern corporations.

Greece has started to employ a new measure of financing with quite important success, especially over the last years, and this is the option of financial leasing. The measure has been decreed and put into effect quite ...

This study primarily investigates differences in the market variables of companies that show corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared with those that do not. We also examine whether predictions of CSR can be ...

Forecasting has clearly become a field in its own right; its growth and change continue at a rather fast pace, as the number of published books and papers on the topic increases and as more experience about forecasting ...