Multi-staged R&D projects are copy-book cases of compound real options. Traditional compound option models assume a constant volatility over the lifetime of the project. Building on the n-fold compound option model of Cassimon et al. (2004), we extend this model to allow for phase-specific...

This is a discussion of the manuscript "Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News" by L. George and C. Hogendorn, presented at the 11th Workshop on Media Economics, which was held at the Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University, October 9-10, 2013.

An article about the transformation of the forms and methods of marketing in the context of the global economic crisis. The extensive development of e-commerce has led to the emergence of new forms of virtual sales and globalization of marketing. The author analyzes the changes taking place in...

Nowadays the most topical is a problem of economic efficiency assessment of enterprises’ resource management within technological chains, financial structures and logistic systems and so on. Especially it covers Ukraine’s economy, that fell under the impact of world financial crisis and...

Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives are challenging tasks, implying significant costs in their implementation. Therefore, organizations have adopted prudent policies requiring a financial justification. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project initiative, project scoping...

Purpose. To analyze the potential of selected social media tool – the youtube channel – in supporting knowledge transfer and diffusion from institutions that form tourism business environment to tourism enterprises. Method. The analysis was based on a case study of the Irish National Tourism...

Before recent technological developments in telecom the use of available fixed line was limited to voice telecommunication only. At present the high frequencies on the subscriber line were used for high speed internet access. This Internet access technology is generally referred to as broadband....

Private and public concern about digital security, cybercrime and data privacy is growing the last few years. If Internet-related markets are flexible enough to cope with security concerns, given time, one would expect that - per unit of Internet traffic - the number and costs of cybersecurity...

The article refers to the results of a survey that was conducted during the EUROSCOPE project in the port of Piraeus. The market research revealed the trends and needs of the port users and the drivers of the trucks, for proper information diffusion and application of special advanced transport...

Ageing society opens up enormous economic potential. Whereas for a long time social interpretation homed in on the doomsday scenarios of demographic change, it is the economic potential that is now emerging with increasing clarity. Information and communication technologies stand a good chance...