Serviciile de consultanţă pentru proiectele cu finanţare europeană nerambursabilă prezintă unele particularităţi notabile. Acestea se referă la procesul de selectare a consultanţilor, derularea misiunii de consultanţă şi modalităţile de plată a serviciilor. În lipsa unor...

We examine determinants of audit engagement profitability using proprietary data from the national office of a Big 4 public accounting firm in Canada. We verify through interviews with senior audit partners that the audit realization rate is the primary measure used to assess engagement level...

Under the context of digital health, I explore the potential opportunity costs associated with giving customers a sense of success. Using large-scale data from a popular mobile fitness application, I show that many users who enjoy certain past successes need not necessarily upgrade to the...

Purpose: The study explores how forces of disruption and innovation affect the printing industry in an emerging market context and how incumbent firms respond to the challenges associated with these forces. Design; methodology approach: The research is an exploratory study based on qualitative...

A succinct exploration of business sustainability via an e-commerce platform was examined in the study. Its myth and reality permeate its adoption, use, and acceptability within the context of our economic, social, and environmental assumptions were also validated. To achieve its aim,...

The tourism industry is nowadays one of the best developed industries worldwide and brings annual profits at the level of billions of dollars. It creates new jobs, determines the country's economic growth and supports the infrastructure development. Tourism industry in Romania is expected to...

We study the effect of bank merger deregulation on market structure and wages in the banking industry. We show that state deregulation of bank mergers and acquisitions increased the market share of large, multi-state banks and lowered wages for bank workers by up to 8 percentage points, with...

Personale Versorgungsbetriebe bieten personalintensive Dienstleistungen an, auf die ihre nicht unbedingt selbst zahlenden Kunden angewiesen sind und teilweise sogar einen Rechts­anspruch haben. Es handelt sich um personenzentrierte Dienstleistungsbetriebe mit einer gewissen Größe und anderen...

The outsourcing of IT services poses a conundrum to the traditional theories of the firm. While there are many prescriptive sourcing metrics that are geared towards the evaluation of tangible and measurable aspects of vendors and clients, much of the information that is traditionally important...

This paper examines, in a high technology context, how investor and investee behave, and interact, in the face of risk. The evidence on which it is based was obtained by fieldwork methods, over the period 2000-2, examining a sample of UK investors and investees active in high technology areas....