This paper presents a review of the topics in existing research on the establishment and management of public policies for multifunctional purposes. The review is a complete survey of studies carried out in five countries: Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia and UK. The viewpoints adopted in...

Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1995) provide a consistent framework for the valuation of accounting numbers, the latter capturing different properties of operating and financial assets. We test the empirical validity of these valuation models for the telecommunications sector of the...

With the deregulation of the financial services sector in many countries and the proliferation of different channels of distribution for financial services products, non-traditional providers have sought to enter what they perceive as this lucrative market. Retailers are amongst those...

The main aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in dividend payout, earnings and share price movement, and to evaluate the joint effects of earnings and dividend changes. Managers of a firm usually have more information about the firm's prospects than its shareholders;...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of both firm-specific and external factors on the risk taking of European insurance companies. The extent of risk taking is quantified through variations in stock prices and these are explained by firm-specific and external factors that proxy the...

The purpose of this paper is to model the production of innovation in the financial sector firms and to quantify its impact on the productivity of the innovators. We use a sample of 118 British financial firms drawn from the Annual Respondents Database, 2005 and matched with the Fourth Community...

The purpose of this study was to conduct an empirical investigation among clients and managers to identify the influence of demographic variables on relationship banking. Primary data was collected from respondents in South Africa, Canada and the UK. Convenient snowball sampling was used to...

Already a mainstream source of finance in the private sector, the exchange of future income for present cash is increasingly being promoted by the international financial services industry as a means of funding capital projects in the public sector. This paper reports on the value-for-money...

This research aims to pinpoint areas of corruption in the private nonaccredited education sector colleges in the UK mainly recruiting international students. Many private colleges cannot offer accredited courses and degrees hence they are forced to work with other accredited larger institutions....

The continuous introduction of advanced business practices in small-/medium-size enterprises (SMEs) is becoming essential in developing sustainable supply chains. This paper reports on a new and innovative advisory methodology and tools which support the introduction of Concurrent Engineering...