We examine whether mandatory research and development (R&D) investments disclosure matters to analyst forecast accuracy. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we document a significant decrease in forecast errors for firms that previously chose not to disclose R&D investments but...

Chapter1. Introduction of Project Management -- Chapter2. Two Project Lifecycle Management -- Chapter 3. Project Personnel and Organization -- Chapter 4. Project Scheduling and Control -- Chapter 5. Economy Analysis in Project Management -- Chapter 6. Project Risk Management -- Chapter 7....

The level of ownership in an overseas subsidiary has been an important issue in international business. Existing literature, based on transaction cost theory, predicts that firms prefer higher ownership for subsidiaries located in favorable foreign institutional environments. We propose two...

The state-of-the-art literatures, industrial economics, transaction cost theory, and real options theory explain vertical integration (VI) from the perspective of industrial characteristics. However, even within the same industry, VI greatly differs from firm to firm. This indicates that there...

Many networks of interest in the science, including social networks, computer networks and the World Wide Web, are found to be divided naturally into communities or groups. The problem of detecting communities is one of the outstanding issues in the study of network systems. Based on the...