The application of options pricing theory to value irreversible investment decisions has witnessed a marked increase over the last decade. For instructional and simplified applications, the Black-Scholes model is commonly demonstrated due to its tractability and acceptance in the finance...

The monthly data of the industrial production in Romania after the structural discontinuity occurring at the end of 1989 show an under-damped oscillatory behavior that suggests an evolution of second order systems excited by a step function. Since this behavior is well described in control...

Many organizations are in front of most competitive economic environments, where, in order to survive, they must reduce costs all the time and adopt the most intelligent business strategies. In most decision making activities the manager has to decide which variant is the most advantageous,...

Although firms may resort to downsizing strategies to improve financial performance, the actual outcome of downsizing is inconclusive. Testing a sample of 1,357 Portuguese firms, we conclude that firms that downsize tend to continue to underperform compared to those that do not downsize.

Each day, on the territory of the European Union, the citizens are prevented from fully living a professional and social life because of the damages related to discrimination. The economic approach is intended to be integrated, offering at the same time,

Companies could gain cost advantage using their logistics area of the business. Warehouse management is a possible source of cost improvements from logistics that companies could use during this economic crisis. The goal of this article is to expose a few

The main objective of this research is to provide a detailed perspective of the operational risk in the case of commercial bank. The research is based on the main regulations and procedures in the field of the operational banking risk, and it presents the

Protonegotiation management, as part of successful negotiations of the organizations, is an issue for analysis extremely important for today’s managers in the confrontations generated by the changes of the environments in the period of transition to marke

In the process of investment decision making it is not only the question if some investment has to be made, but it has frequently appear the problem of selection the best investments between two or more alternatives. For selection of investments that comp

Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los 183 indicadores establecidos en 2006 por el Consejo Nacional de Acreditación de Colombia y proponer los indicadores más relevantes, esenciales o cruciales para la autoevaluación y acreditación de programas universitarios de Administración. El...