There is a growing concern about environmental impacts resulting from construction activities. To help minimize the environmental impacts from construction, Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) have been advocated and in some cases, implemented. Within the construction industry, Environmental...

With mandatory implementation of the ISO 9000 quality system by the Housing Authority in Hong Kong, most construction firms there now claim to have initiated quality systems in their processes as defined in their quality manuals. In addition, an objective quality measuring yardstick, the...

This paper considers an intertemporal portfolio choice model with two assets, one risky and one riskless. Transactions costs are incurred when an agent either purchases or sells shares of risky assets. The agent is assumed to maximize the limiting long run expected growth rate of his or her...

Based on the background of the second time rural land reform in China Taiwan, I analyzed financial support measures and their effects. It comes to the insight into financial support for rural land circulation in China Taiwan for the new round of rural land reform in China mainland. It is...

The Libor market model, also known as the BGM Model, is a term structure model of interest rates. It is widely used for pricing interest rate derivatives, especially Bermudan swaptions, and other exotic Libor callable derivatives. For numerical implementation the pricing of derivatives with...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how revelations of corporate misconduct are associated with trade credit. Specifically, it investigates how this association varies in different regions, in different types of industries and in response to companies’ subsequent charitable...

Purpose: Threats from the informal sector have become an important concern among formal firms. As a response to these threats, formal firms can adopt product innovation (PI) and marketing innovation (MI) strategies to differentiate themselves. The purpose of this paper is to examine how...