Nowadays we face a world-scale movement towards the privatization of public enterprise and liberalization of commerce, world-wide investments and monetary policies at a global level. These factors have progressively led to a substantial growth of commerce and international investments. The...

This paper compares the performance results of Spanish mutual fund managers and the market timing results obtained using traditional measures and those obtained using measures that consider time variations in returns and risks by incorporating macroeconomic variables representative of Spanish...

Online piracy may substantially undermine intellectual property rights of digital goods. There is much controversy concerning the issue of music piracy over the internet and the implementation of new information technology in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) with the rebirth of Napster and...

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) refers to investment practices that take into account financial, social and environmental aspects. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors which may influence fund management companies in making a decision to manage and/or market SRI funds and...

In the period 2002â2003 we carried out a broad study of Information Systems (IS) in financial firms in Spain. Specifically, we surveyed one in five (44) banks, savings banks, rural credit cooperatives and credit cooperative banks. In general we can affirm that the IS of financial firms are in a...

Information Technology (IT) has been widely acknowledged as an important component in the fight to reduce global poverty; it has also been identified as having the potential to empower women around the world economically, socially and politically. Education, and IT education (ITE) in particular,...

This paper examines innovation within the UK magazine publishing industry. We find that publishers are able to engage with niche interest groups in order to supply a high value-added product. The paper attempts define the characteristics of the industry and to examine the drivers of innovation...

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth and to boost up the country's economic growth to very...

This paper describes the staffing and scheduling of IT help desk operators for a large petrochemical company. The objective is to reduce the labour cost by determining the best staffing level and employee weekly tour schedules required to meet the workload that varies over a 24-hr operating...