According to Wikipedia, Finance quot;studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time.quot; To many people, finance is business. Many of the brightest stars in the business world - from Wall Street bankers to...

This paper aims at showing the relevance of procedural utility for economics: people do not only care about outcomes, as usually assumed in economics, they also value the processes and conditions leading to outcomes. The psychological foundations of procedural utility are outlined and it is...

Given the many and varied uses to which journal rankings are put, interest in ranking journal 'quality' is likely to persist. Unfortunately, existing methods of constructing such rankings all have inherent limitations. This paper proposes a new (complementary) approach, based on submissions to...

Previous studies about the academic publishing process consider the publication delay as starting from the submission to the publishing journal. This ignores the potential delay caused by rejections received from previous journals. Knowing how many times papers are submitted prior to publication...

This paper examines the relationship between the research impact of Business Schools, as measured by citations per capita adjusted by area norms, and rankings in leading magazines. Recent attempts by magazines to include measures of research impact appears to lower the correlation between...

The historical Coase Theory of the Firm, including its development toward the establishment of Resource-Based Theory, which stresses on the roles of intangible assets, have been widely used in many organizations across industries. The theory of the firm provided the first foundation on how firms...

In 1992 when Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States the national annual deficit was projected to rise to more than $357 billion by the end of his first term in office. The total deficit was projected to rise to more than $3 trillion, the highest in United States history. To the...

With an internet-based platform to transparently report global business-to-business (B2B) dealings, companies could freely invest and transact. Part I also explores eBay's secrets of success, complete with a detailed examination of its feedback and rating systems to find what tools can be...

Anti-corruption will feature prominently in Turkey's talks on EU accession. Despite claims to the contrary, the data show that corruption levels in Turkey are not radically different than those in many other accession countries. While Turkey already meets many of the requirements for negotiating...

This article looks at the range of educational and other anti-corruption projects in a specific country - Lithuania - in order to assess the optimality of the organic evolution of the National Anti-Corruption Training Programme. Policy recommendations given