The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring and judgment are poorly understood, and board influence...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is considered as one of the successful regional cooperations and has played a remarkable role in regional, and potentially global, order through its principles of consensus, non-interference, and peaceful resolution of conflicts, providing platform for...

This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it provides 'both sides of the story' of...

The paper derives an algorithm for computing leave-k-out diagnostics for the detection of patches of outliers for stationary and non-stationary state space models with regression effects. The algorithm is based on a reverse run of the Kalman filter on the smoothing errors and is both efficient...

We study a stochastic model of influence where agents have "yes" or "no" inclinations on some issue, and opinions may change due to mutual influence among the agents. Each agent independently aggregates the opinions of the other agents and possibly herself. We study influence processes modelled...

Relationships between Marketing Managers and Sales Managers are amongst the most important working relationships within modern firms, though to date, these have received little attention in the literature. Our study adds to knowledge of this working relationship by examining the effects of Sales...

Since campaign finance reform is usually motivated by the concern that existing legislation can not effectively prevent campaign contributions to 'buy favors', this paper assumes that contributions influence political decisions. But, given that it is also widely recognized that interest groups...

We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide verifiable policy-relevant information to a political decision-maker and to exert political pressure on her. We show that both lobbying instruments are interdependent. In our view information provision is a risky attempt to affect the...

Šio magistro baigiamojo darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti naftos kainų kitimą ir kitimo įtaką ekonomikai. Pirmojoje darbo dalyje aptariama naftos kainų kaitos istoriniai kitimo aspektai, pateikiami autorių naftos kainų kitimo traktavimo ypatumai, apžvelgiami svarbiausi naftos paklausos ir...

Darbo tikslas: pateikti pasiūlymus kaip naudojant metaforas reklamoje skatinti norimą vartotojų elgseną. Teorinėje darbo dalyje analizuojama metaforos samprata bei galimos jų rūšys. Analizuojama metaforų naudojimo reklamose specifika, privalumai ir trūkumai bei metaforų naudojimo...