Changing institutional regulations and increased competitiveness in academia impose strong pressure on scholars specialized in business to improve research productivity by publishing in international impact factor journals. Our knowledge about factors that leverage success of business scholars...

Cost of equity calculation is a complex problem in corporate finance management. In practice such calculation is most often based on CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), however, world literature and experience of developed countries indicate a possibility to use many derivatives of this method...

Purpose – This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection legislation for creative industries. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by independent academics who place the arguments in context based upon literature and market data....

This paper describes the results of a study that tested two hypotheses predicting employees’ behaviour in the workplace. The study predicted that employee tenure was a significant variable affecting perception of workplace deception. The study also predicted that employees who have the highest...

In the historic processes of the “planetary society of knowledge”, education has always been a current and highly important concern. In the current context of an advanced industrialised society a different social structure is being created which goes beyond international borders and covers...

Facing a series of decrease on the budget of health insurance and clusters of healthcare facilities, healthcare facilities nowadays take countermeasure to alter their operation. Therefore, managing healthcare facilities by standard procedures, systematically transmitting information of each...

In this paper we investigate the effects of human and task integration with respect to the strategic orientation of target firms. This approach is necessary, as prior empirical research is not univocal about as detrimental or beneficial effects of integration depend rather on the target...

Evaluation of the economic performance of countries in the globalization process and decision making on the future development required in respect of various macroeconomic analysis and forecast of the economy to take into account more and more new alternative indicators for measuring economic...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most important driving forces promoting economic growth in the economy. However, one puzzling question concerns the efficient and effective impact of ICT on educational outputs and outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to...

This article examines a controversial case in a Turkish university in which an undergraduate student of visual communications design prepared a porn video as his graduation thesis. The project, which was carried out ‘to find out the limits of academic freedom,’ resulted in the firings of...