This survey-based study examines whether Chief Executive Officer (CEO) demographics (education, tenure, and experience) are significant determinants in the choice of planning, control, and performance evaluation systems in small and medium sized enterprises(SMEs) in addition to the traditional...

Nonprofit organizations often rely on governmental grants to finance their social programs. Under certain circumstances, the procurement of these grants causes an agency-relation between the board of directors and the management of the organization. Using archival data from a substantial number...

In Vlaanderen vormt bodemverontreiniging, die meestal van historische aard is, een ernstig probleem en is de sanering van verontreinigde sites vaak een noodzaak. Omwille van het dichte netwerk van bodemsaneringsbedrijven en het zekerdere saneringsresultaat wordt ontgraven veelal gekozen als...

The shortage function has been proposed as a tool to gauge portfolio performance in multi-moment portfolio models. An open issue is how the choice of direction vector affects the efficiency measurement and, from a practical point of view, the resulting league tables. This paper illustrates...

In this article, surfaces are studied that arise from taking the tensor product of two curves. More precisely, the classication of minimal tensor product surfaces of two arbitrary curves in pseudo-Euclidean spaces is obtained. This main result generalizes several previously known partial results...

Analysts' forecasts are often used as an information source by other investors, and therefore deviations from optimal forecasts are troublesome. Herding, which refers to imitation behavior as a consequence of individual considerations, can lead to such suboptimal forecasts and is therefore...

This paper describes an experiment which tested the effectiveness of warm and cold appearance endorsers for for-profit and not-for-profit print advertisements. Moreover, the effects of positive/negative publicity surrounding the endorser have also been evaluated. The research results show that...

Do newspapers write more about their advertisers? We try to answer this question on two levels. In our theoretical model, we show that the answer is yes, if readers do not mind bias too much and if bias is relatively effective for advertisers. In an empirical study, we find that advertisers in...