After the 2008 events that occurred in the world financial markets, all organizations have increased interest in risk management. It is very clear that risk management brings benefits to the organization. By taking a proactive approach to risk and risk management, organizations will be able to...

Using content analysis we evaluate the determinants of corporate risk disclosure in a sample of 424 publicly traded firms in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. We hypothesize that corporate risk disclosure will be lower in Islamic financial institutions when compared to conventional...

In the past, security measures were often deployed in reaction to an incident or a likely threat, but today's corporations are expected to integrate multiple layers of security into a coherent and preventative framework. Risk management principles and practices developed during the last decade...

This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those...

Within the field of social capital study, concerns have been expressed that deviations from a fundamental understanding that social capital is captured from embedded resources in social networks may reduce the intellectual enterprise to a catch all fad (Lin, Cook, Burt, 1999). This paper is an...

Within the field of social capital study, concerns have been expressed that deviations from a fundamental understanding that social capital is captured from embedded resources in social networks may reduce the intellectual enterprise to a catch all fad (Lin, Cook, Burt, 1999). This paper is an...

Executive pay is a major issue in the corporate governance debate. As well in practice as in theory debate still exists how executive pay levels and structures can be explained. This paper provides an overview of 16 theories that have been used in the literature to explain the phenomenon. The...

This paper assumes that managers, investors, or both behave irrationally. In addition, even though scholars have investigated behavioral irrationality from three angles, investor sentiment, investor biases and managerial biases, we focus on the relationship between one of the managerial biases,...

W krajach zachodnich outsourcing od lat jest integralna czescia wielu biznesow, w Polsce zas coraz czesciej postrzegany jest jako efektywne narzedzie i czesc dlugofalowej strategii rozwoju. Mimo iz Polska stawia pierwsze kroki w tym obszarze, to coraz czesciej wymieniana jest wsrod panstw...

In article prevailing style of thinking of the head is analyzed: intuitive, logic, strategic and emotions (feelings). Knowing administrative style of the concrete head it is possible to speak and about its natural (peculiar to certain psychological type, a concrete management style) prognostic...