essential tool to stimulate growth and enable firms to master the competition brought about by the forces of globalization. In … countries.At the same time, innovations in today’s “globalized” world are hardly feasible in isolation. World-wide economic … specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the “globalization of innovation”. Based on recent …

papers, one dealing with bank closure policiesin the event of system-wide banking crises, and the other two with credit … (chapter 4) we analyze bank closure policies in the eventof severe banking crises. In such a situation the regulator can rely …

Fiscal Year 1998 represents the second full year utilizing a results-oriented, performance-based contract. This … document describes the critical outcomes, objectives, performance indicators, expected levels of performance, and the basis for … the evaluation of the Contractors performance for the period October 1, 1997 through September 30, 1998, as required by …

optimality of a bank's risk-reward trade-off. Conventional accounting-based performance measures such as return on assets and …The financial intermediation function that a bank performs dictates the existence of a risk-reward trade-off embedded … within a bank's balance sheet. The process of risk management focuses on achieving the broader organisational objectives …

Globalization, technological complexity, interdependence, terrorism, climate and energy volatility, and pandemic … increasingly affects real-time financial performance. The 835 companies that announced a supply chain disruption between 1989 and …

This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology … NTBF performance in a region is a function of its scientist job market conditions, cultural diversity, venture capital … local entrepreneurial climate plays a significant and positive role on NTBF performance in both industries. Second, the …