Multinational Banks operate on a wider economic and geographical spectrum and are faced with vast challenges in each economic territory. There is however general observation that multinational banks do not make proper disclosures on portfolios operating in hyperinflationary economies as outlined...

The chapter describes investment and trading strategies rooted in behavioral finance that historically have generated superior profits. The failure of traditional finance models, such as those based on purely rational behavior, to explain how markets work has enabled behavioral finance to move...

This paper offers a critical survey of the three overlapping domains of the phygital world: the Web, the Infosphere, the Metaverse, and their innovative components – blockchain, distributed ledger technology, cryptoassets and cryptocurrencies. This requires a (bold) attempt to synthetize the...

The current pandemic of COVID-19 has disrupted every aspect of life. From groceries to medicines, travel to events, sports to funerals, economics to politics and religion to social rights has been shaken up by this infectious virus. The impact of this pandemic is deep and will last until very...

The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...

It is not an exaggeration to surmise that agriculture as an economic activity in Sudan is facing demise. The agricultural sector of Sudan has been facing by many problems for the past two decades. In the irrigated schemes, the government who officially owns most of them there were entrenched...

The attempts by Schulze, Warning, and Wiermann (2008) and Ritzberger (2008) to develop a joint ranking list of journals for economics and business research are critically evaluated. Their lists suggest that the quality of top business journals is substantially lower than that of many economics...

Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in the global economy of the 21st century. We know from the past that globalization, is nothing new. It continues to affect people and businesses in every country of the world, spurred on by the trend in global outsourcing, in which...

Organizational growth and performance hinge upon the effective implementation and transfer of technological knowledge. Implementing and transferring such knowledge however can be difficult and time-consuming. Interestingly, we understand little about what determines the performance of...

The global business revolution since the 1980s has witnessed an unprecedented degree of industrial consolidation and concentration of business power at a global level. Firms with powerful, globally recognised technologies and/or brands constitute the systems integrators at the apex of extended...