Joint ownership of assets by two partners can have an adverse effect on the incentives to invest and can result in unstable and inefficient organizational structures. Control sharing, however, plays an important role in economic, political, and social institutions. There is scarce empirical...

The rapid deployment of mobile devices and the development of mobile services and applications require to address the mobile information security from the human side. This study was aimed at identifying factors influencing people's perception of mobile information security, to investigate the...

Most initial public offerings (IPOs) feature share lockup agreements, which prohibit insiders from selling their shares for a specified period of time following the IPO. However, some IPO firms agree to have a much longer lockup period than other IPO firms, and some are willing to lockup a much...

Introduction, project objectives and project background: This initiative to this project, including the original project proposal, goes back to Professor Kevin Chen (he is no longer with the Department of Rural Economy). The project was initially scheduled to begin on 2004/05/01. When I took...

Introduction, project objectives and project background:This initiative to this project, including the original project proposal, goes back to Professor Kevin Chen (he is no longer with the Department of Rural Economy). The project was initially scheduled to begin on 2004/05/01. When I took over...

This project is part of a collaborative MSc training programme between theAviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Cranfield University, aiming atenhancing the competitiveness of AVIC in both international and domesticaviation market through applying continuing airworthiness policies in the...

This paper considers the problem of hedging inventory risk for a seasonal product whose demand is sensitive to weather conditions, such as the average seasonal temperature. The newsvendor not only decides the order quantity, but also adopts a weather hedging strategy. A typical hedging strategy...