The purpose of this research is to develop cost-effectiveness tools for the analysis of company's intellectual resources, in terms of resource-based and value-based approaches. Our study focuses on the evaluation of intellectual capital methods to discover the drivers of company growth. We...

The paper revisits the issue of robustness of fund performance by evaluating European large-cap equity funds. For this fund category traditional market risk factor adjusted performance measures are expected to be fairly robust. However, for the sample of 65 European large-cap mutual equity...

Will the same marketing tools and strategies used in the for-profit world of business work in a church environment? George Barna, America's most well recognized and respected authority on business and religion has spent the lust 20 years writing over a dozen books attempting to convince church...

The measurement of research and teaching performance is increasingly common within universities, driven probably by the rise of New Public Management (NPM). Although changing over time and varying from country to country, NPM involves the use of private sector methods in the public sector....

After getting close to violating its loan covenants in 2009, Momentive took a variety of actions over several months to restructure its debt. In particular, in May of 2009, Momentive had exchanged a fraction of its outstanding notes. In November of 2009, it proposed an amendment that sought to...

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of operational and strategic information exchange on supply chain performance and the moderating role of information quality in relation to both operational and strategic information exchange. The study was conducted using manufacturing...

This study attempts to demonstrate the evolution of performance auditing in Australia. The previous studies relating to the development of performance auditing (e.g., Porter, 1981; McCrae and Vada, 1997; Funnel and Cooper, 1998; Guthrie and Parker, 1999; and Wanna, et al., 2001) have used time frame to describe...

We propose an optimisation approach to determine the optimal decay factor in time weighted (BRW) simulation. The backtesting of the BRW simulation involving different decay factors together with a broad range of competing VaR models has been performed on a sample of seven stock indexes and two...