Emerging Issues and Challenges in Business & Economics: Selected Contributions from the 8th Global Conference

Ciampi, Francesco

• Publisher: Firenze University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9788864530598
• eBook ISBN: 9788864530611
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

The 8th Global Conference on Business & Economics was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Florence in the month of October 2008. This international conference was sponsored by the «International Journal of Business & Economics and the Oxford Journal».
Business academics and economists from universities and business schools in fifty different countries around the world (representing every continent) presented their most recent research findings, most of which unpublished. The papers had been selected on the basis of a double blind peer review process carried out by the scientific committee of the conference. They dealt with various areas of business and economics (strategic management, finance, marketing, accounting, business ethics, business law and others), and focused on a range of industrial sectors and services (from the banking sector to the oil industry, from textile production to automobile manufacturing). This monograph consists of a selection of the papers presented at the conference. Francesco Ciampi is an Associate Professor of Management at the Business Science Department of the University of Florence. His current research and consulting interests focus on management consulting (with an emphasis on client-consultant relationships and consulting knowledge-creation dynamics), financial management (particularly bank-firm relationships and small and medium-sized enterprises), and high-tech firms.

Table of contents

• Copertina anteriore
• Frontespizio
• Pagina copyright
• Copertina posteriore
• Contents
• Editor’s Note
• What Is the Right Governance for Technology Alliances? AConceptualization Based on the Nature of Technology
• Are Credit Scoring Models Able to Predict Small EnterpriseDefault? Statistical Evidence from Italian Small Enterprises
• Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Firm Size andQuarterly Earnings Management in Thailand
• Country Risk of Croatia and the Euro Zone. Is the PressureSustainable?
• Successful Lebanese Female Leaders: A Reality or a Myth?
• Competition, Technology Innovation and Industrial Structurein the Business Aviation Industry
• The Strategic Role of Innovative Finance and the “AlternativeCapital Market” (MAC) for Business Succession in ItalianFamily Firms
• Default Prediction Modeling for Small Enterprises: Evidencefrom Small Manufacturing Firms in Northern and Central Italy
• Pathways to Innovation: Evidence from CompetitivenessClusters in France
• Hawkers and the Self-Assessment Tax System: Survey Evidencefrom Malaysia
• Multi-Channel Integration Strategies in Retailing: An ExploratoryAnalysis of the PC and Electronics Industries
• The Teaching Style of the Business Educator: A Corpus-basedInvestigation of the Relationship Between Language andIdentity
• Estimating the Monetary Policy Reaction Function for Turkey
• Determinants of Capital Flight in Developing Economies: AStudy of Nigeria
• End of Semester Student Evaluation of Teaching EffectivenessQuestionnaires: An Indicator of Teaching Quality
• Economic and Strategic Alliance Between India and the US:The Evolving Role of Outsourcing in a Globalized World
• The Role of Corruption in Emerging Economies: The Case ofRomania
• Information Technology and New Business Models in theTourism Industry
• Economics of Learning Style: Traditional versus E-Learning(the Case of Jordan)
• Measuring Firm Size Using Business Ethics: When a EthicalCode Is Necessary
• Strategic Changes in Graduate Business Schools of Lahore,Pakistan: A Complete Make-over
• Controlling and Evaluation of Human Capital. The Approachby Jac Fitz-enz
• The Influence of Human Factors on Information SecurityMeasures Effectiveness in relation to Ethical Issues (SecurityMeasures and Ethics)
• Dynamics of the Merger of Emirates Bank International (EBI)and National Bank of Dubai (NBD). Strategic Challenges of RegionalConsolidation
• The Evolution of Financial Accounting Standards in thePhilippines
• An Empirical Investigation of the Antecedents to the Timing ofNew Brand Introduction Decision
• Global Perspectives in the Origins, Development &Consequences of Women’s Self Concepts Cultivated throughTelevision Programming and Advertising
• Competitive Advantage via Synergy in Processes andOperations: The International Joint Ventures Way
• Value Creation through Relationship Closeness in a ValueDelivery Network: An Exploratory Study
• Environmental Initiatives under Current Business Tools andParadigms
• Teaching and Learning Business Innovation by SuccessiveApproximations
• Teamwork Rubric
• An Application of Social Network Analysis to Assess VirtualInnovation Team Performance
• Effect of Exchange Rate, Inflation and Wages on the PurchasingPower of Consumers in Different Economies
• Russian Macroeconomic Stability (Sort of) and ConsumerMarket Proliferation. The Humpbacked Pony Tale in the Era ofPetrodollars