Different economic environments differ in their characteristics; this prevents the usage of the same bankruptcy prediction models under different conditions. Objectively, the abundance of bankruptcy prediction models gives rise to the idea that these models are not in compliance with the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use tenets of the complexity theory in order to study the effect of various determinants of firm's performance, such as CEO's compensation and age, for the case of 72 insurance companies. Design/methodology/approach The authors identify the asymmetries in...

We survey optimization problems that allow natural simple formulations with one existential and one universal quantifier. We summarize the theoretical background from computational complexity theory, and we present a multitude of illustrating examples. We discuss the connections to robust...

Crowdfunding represents an alternative way of funding entrepreneurial ventures - and is attracting a high amount of interest in research as well as practice. Against this background, this paper analyzes reward-based crowdfunding campaign strategies and their communication tools. To do this, 446...