The purpose of this paper is to examine small businesses in Sri Lanka, to determine the management implications, and to discuss its relevance to the current public policy stance. Although there has been a considerable attempt to examine the nature and problems of small businesses in developed...

Earnings management can be defined as a purposeful intervention by executives into a firm's financial reporting process in order to secure some gains for themselves, for some firm stakeholders (e.g. investors), or from other firm stakeholders (e.g. debtholders). In this context, a firm's...

The paper investigates financial management directed towards funding growth in the new small firm in Scotland. It makes appeal to two sources of first-hand data, gathered using fieldwork methods during the period 1993-97. The first evolved from interviews with 150 owner-managers of micro firms...

Parmi les nouveaux problemes poses par l'utilisation des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) dans l'organisation, se trouve celui de la coordination des groupes de travail utilisant des outils de Groupware. Plus precisement, nous nous proposons d'etudier la question de la...

L'objectif de cette communication est de fournir des elements d'analyse de la relation chercheur-entreprise a partir de l'experience vecue d'une etude de cas, realisee dans l'entreprise "Socla", sur les determinants et l'evolution de la hierarchie. La premiere partie est consacree a la...

This study comes to grips with the industrial outranking problem, one of the major outstanding problems of current operations research and managerial decision-making. The problem, simply stated, is this: given a large but finite set of criteria, and a large but finite number of alternatives, how...

A collection of lectures from a special summer program at MIT's Operations Research Center treats topics in operations research for industry, military services, and governmental departments, beginning with the principles and application of probability theory.

What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a Unilever plant? When Dell and Apple chip manufacturers in Taiwan take weeks to recover from an earthquake? When the U.S....