“Firms that buy their stock back on the open market are seen as more efficient and more sensitive to shareholder interests,” said Matt Billett, professor of…
In the global economy, corporate collaboration is becoming a necessity, making trust critical to the success of joint business ventures. A University of…
Three-quarters of the 302 senior corporate executives surveyed in mid-2007 said that an emergency preparedness plan exists in their companies. The analysis was…
Economic models fail to factor in the emotions and unconscious mental life that drive human behaviour in conditions where the future is uncertain says the…
The lack of financing dramatically lowers the number of spin-outs from Universities and research institutions which passes the initial phase, where they are…
Finland's nanotech development has produced numerous success stories. For example, Nicanti technology helps combat product forgeries through marking genuine…
EU-countries, especially Germany and the UK – the Netherlands in their wake –, seem to follow in the footsteps of the US. Here the proportion working at low…
Small businesses (those with 25 or fewer employees) saw the expense of providing health insurance rise by nearly 30 percent during the study period –…
‘The main question, however, is what makes a company Dutch?’ asks Kees van Veen from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen. ‘Is…
Now in its thirteenth year, 130 companies and 190 individuals have completed this NovaUCD enterprise programme and former participants now collectively employ…
The economists behind the research say it raises serious questions about whether China is being fair with its trading partners.The GEP research, based on data…
Money is used to pay for things like furniture and plane tickets; time is spent assembling the do-it-yourself bookshelf or searching for cheap flights on the…
The findings, led by Durham Business School, Durham University, showed that home workers worried about missing-out on “water-cooler networking” – where…
Ping-Chen Lin of the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences in Kaohsiung and Jiah-Shing Chen of the National Central University, Jhongli, in Taiwan,…
Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….
This was the conclusion of a round table discussion held 7 March in Riga, Latvia. Participants were regional and national authorities, the Nordic Council of…
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