The Fourth Industrial Revolution poses significant challenges to manufacturing companies from technological, organizational, and managerial perspectives due to a large number of barriers to its realization. However, there is a lack of detailed studies and systematic literature (SLR) reviews that...

The aim of this paper is to describe the mortality factors and the change in the importance of these factors throughout the life cycle stages of small businesses. Research on mortality of small businesses ignores the characteristics of small businesses and the life cycle stage they are at the...

Although some studies have analysed the effects of corporate governance practices on cash holdings, this study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, to analyse the effects of a non-mandatory premium listing that was designed to establish a higher standard of governance set by Brazilian...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the volatility of the fixed income market from 11 countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, USA, Germany and Japan) from January 2000 to December 2011 by examining the interbank interest rates from each market....

This article proposesmanagement styles to small business owner-managers based on the twomost important approaches tomanagerialwork. The managerial work performance of small business owner-managerswas analyzed from different perspectives. An important perspective, known as small business...

Traditional retailers (bricks-and-mortar) have been continuously increasing online sales. However, not all retail companies were able to respond to the increasing sales with the same efficiency level as their competitors. This paper aims to propose a dynamic model - incorporating principles of...

Purpose This paper aims to present a literature review of the most recent optimisation methods applied to Credit Scoring Models (CSMs). Design/methodology/approach The research methodology employed technical procedures based on bibliographic and exploratory analyses. A traditional investigation...

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are an important part of worldwide economy, frequently, researches on SME mortality factors ignores their characteristics. This paper discusses the relation between the SME mortality factors and the small business owner-manager, based on the life...

This article proposesmanagement styles to small business owner-managers based on the twomost important approaches tomanagerialwork. The managerial work performance of small business owner-managerswas analyzed from different perspectives. An important perspective, known as small business...