One of the options available to directors of financially distressed companies is to place their company into voluntary administration (VA). The decision to enter VA should enhance corporate governance because it allows for informed decision-making about a company's future, and ensures that...

Managerial scholars have suggested that 'g' score (i.e., intelligence) tests are not enough to assess and select the appropriate candidates for some jobs. Other dimensions can play just as important a role in employee performance. Thus, the purpose of this article is to expand our view in terms...

A conceptual marketing-finance framework is proposed which links channel contracting in agriculture and the use of financial facilitating services (e.g., financial derivatives) to (shareholder) value creation. The framework complements existing literature by explicitly including channel contract...

In everyday life, we often encounter groupings of objects. It could be a group of products kept on a retail shelf, food items in a shop window or depictions of groups of objects or people in an advertisement. However, very little attention has been paid to how these different groupings could...

Planning has pronounced effects on consumer behavior and intertemporal choice. We develop a six-item scale measuring individual differences in propensity to plan that can be adapted to different domains and used to compare planning across domains and time horizons. Adaptations tailored to...

In today?s business climate, aerospace companiesare more than ever in need of rational methods andtechniques that provide insights as to the beststrategies which may be pursued for increasedprofitability and risk mitigation. However, the use of subjective, anecdotal decision-making...

In today's business climate, aerospace companiesare more than ever in need of rational methods andtechniques that provide insights as to the beststrategies which may be pursued for increasedprofitability and risk mitigation. However, the use of subjective, anecdotal decision-making remains...

The methodology presented in this paper is concerned with the ability to make informed decisions early in the design time line in order to provide a feasible, viable and robust system to the customer. Increasingly, the issues of affordability, uncertainty in design and technology impact...

The methodology presented in this paper is concerned with the ability to make informed decisions early in the design time line in order to provide a feasible, viable and robust system to the customer. Increasingly, the issues of affordability, uncertainty in design and technology impact...

Early phases of design are characterized by risk and uncertainty. Appropriate accounting for this uncertainty is an important requirement for any designer. This work suggests collapsing risk and uncertainty into a single metric called the probability of success, which accounts for the...