Purpose: This study adopts self-determination theory and stimulus-organism-response framework to develop a model that explores the motivations of such donors by considering their self-determination needs and extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Design/methodology/approach: Based on online...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is for examining the evolution of stakeholder influence and the trans-period effect (TPE) of process performance of public–private partnerships (PPPs). TPE refers to the ripple effect of project performance across different phases of a PPP....

Online reservation system allows customers to join a queue and virtually wait for service before arriving on site. For example, some platforms have been designed to collect the information of restaurants and show the real-time congestion levels (e.g., Nowait). We consider a model in which...

China is faced with the big challenge of maintaining a remarkable economic growth in an environmental friendly manner; that is why forecasting the turning point is of necessity. Traditional econometric approaches do not consider the spatial dependence that inevitably exists in the economic...

This paper intends to evaluate the impact of financial deregulation of US before 2008 through how the risks associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&As) affect banks' levels of solvency. This paper is the first that hypothesizes bank solvency to be affected by M&As directly and indirectly...

Banks receive two types of ratings from major rating agencies: an “all-in” and a “stand-alone” rating. This paper investigates whether or not rating gaps between the all-in ratings and standalone ratings could serve as a useful measure for the systemic risk of banks. Using US data from...