Diese Studie untersucht, ob Unternehmen, die während der Pandemie innovativ waren, besser durch die Krise gekommen sind als nicht-innovative Unternehmen und ob krisenbedingte Anpassungen dauerhaft sind oder mit dem Abklingen der Pandemie wieder zurückgenommen werden. Es zeigt sich, dass die...

This study examines whether the agency problem regarding credit risk is a useful corporate governance mechanism for controlling credit risk. For this purpose, we estimate the impact of internal control and agency problems on credit risk in commercial banks in Vietnam from 2009 to 2018. First, in...

Purpose: The paper suggests goal modelling as a method for the strategic analysis in tourism destinations. Destination management is quite complex and challenging and requires deep understanding of the intentions, the roles and the strategies of the various stakeholders. Methods: This paper...

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...

We evaluated the execution of the operational programs (OPs) committed to encouraging the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three-stage weighted Russel directional distance (WRDD)...

The COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented consequences on businesses and, in particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs...

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

Universities, enterprises, and students are the key subjects in the talent training system of Big Data. This study used text mining, interviews, questionnaires, and other methods to analyze the characteristics and deficiencies of Chinese universities in the training of Big Data talents, the...

Despite the attention being paid to the environmental and social dimension of sustainability of Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the literature, little empirical research has focused on economic sustainability considering the HEI as an entity depending on financial funds provided by...

Our modern society and economy moves toward a knowledge-based and service-oriented global world. With the increase of mobile network, mobile devices, and internet of things, many industries, including government departments, private firms, and research communities, offer more transparency...