Internet usage and commerce are growing significantly around the world, and Generation Y consumers, the first generation to grow up with the Internet, have turned into young adults. As part of this generation, university students represent a lucrative market for businesses selling a wide array...

This research seeks to develop a better understanding of the factors affecting on-line purchasing behavior among Generation Y (Gen Y) consumers in Bulgaria. Also called millenials and born between the mid-1970s and late 1990s, this generation is especially active online and will be a dominant...

Eine grundlegende Herausforderung für Management- und Organisationsstudien besteht darin, theoretisch rigorose Forschungsergebnisse zu liefern, die gleichzeitig für Fachleute von praktischer Relevanz sind. Das Bewusstsein für die Notwendigkeit einer engeren Einbeziehung der Teilnehmer in den...

This paper investigates how manipulating different earnings components will affect the likelihood of accounting-related shareholder litigation. Firms can manipulate earnings upward by accelerating revenue recognition, understating expenses, and overstating gains associated with special items....

The probability for shareholder litigation is studied and how corporate governance characteristics and other factors explain it. Shareholder litigation results from failure of corporate governance. Thus a better quality of corporate governance is hypothesized to decrease the litigation...

This paper carries out an empirical test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis with Bulgarian data on pollution and GDP per capita for the years 1970-2008. The existence of such a curve is confirmed in most cases.