Chapter 1: Introduction,- Chapter 2: A roadmap to business research -- Chapter 3: The effect of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on foreign portfolio investment in Africa -- Chapter 4: Determining the impact of different forms of stationarity on financial time series...

Taxpayers have different perception and attitudes towards taxation and react differently to fiscal stimuli: tax law and its loopholes, tax burden, tax representatives, fiscal policy decisions. On the other hand, tax administration acts, taxpayers react, but their goals seem divergent. Tax...

Human society, analyzed as a learning environment, presumes different languages in order to know, to understand or to develop it. This statement results as a default application of the cog-nitive domain in the educational scientific research, and it highlights a key feature: each essen-tial...

Purpose This conceptual paper details the evolution of purchasing research and describes the increasing integration of purchasing with other strategic functions to identify key trends in purchasing practices together with their implications for purchasing research. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose Several scholars have recently highlighted the narrowness of accounting research regarding it as a threat to scholarly developments in the field. The aim of this study was to chart progress in management accounting research using a sample of doctoral dissertations published in Finland....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate trends in the use of research methodologies and publications in manufacturing strategy (MS) literature across geographical regions and suggests possible future research opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – This literature review...

Purpose To further develop research methodologies for multi-species ethnographic fieldwork, based on researcher's experiences with multi-species fieldwork in private wildlife conservancies in South Africa and inspired by San tracking techniques. Design/methodology/approach Reflections on...