This study developed and tested a model to predict innovative work behaviour. Our research question is: What factors influence middle-level managers to initiate new ways of use and/or extend the full range of the available features or functionalities built into an existing or adopted information...

Studies on gender and entrepreneurship often attempt to compare personal characteristics, business practices and behaviour of male and female entrepreneurs. One key element in entrepreneurship that has started to gain attention is networking. Networking can be of strategic importance to...

This research investigates the impact of audit committees' characteristics (audit committee size, independence, activity, financial expertise, and percentage of common stocks owned by audit committee) on improved accounting conservatism and earnings management practices for a sample of 50...

The dynamic of economic changes that influenced the entities has determined a spectacular evolution of internal audit practices, this aspect being also remarked by European specialists. Internal auditor need to face a wider range of challenges especially in the context of corporate governance...

The main aim of this paper is to study the stock price reaction to rights issue announcement in the Indian stock market. It also tests three hypotheses: Overvaluation Hypothesis, Market Condition Hypothesis, and the Hypothesis related to stock return variance. The sample for the study consists...

In order to ensure the financial sustainability of companies under current economic conditions successful management of current assets is crucial. In practice it is quite often observed that the decisions related to current assets management in Latvian companies are made in the short-term...

Capital gain from stock market does not always provide abnormal return to the investor. The level of abnormal return analysis can use Efficient Market Hypothesis to measure the efficiency of the stock market by using event study. The analysis also will use behavioral finance theory to elaborate...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the statutory principles and guidelines used to create the first multi-year financial forecasts (MFF) of self-government units in 2011. This is the first year of new solution in selfgovernment (SG) units in Poland. The analysis of SG resolutions leads to a...

This talk will explore the crucial linkages between urbanisation and food security, based on our recent and ongoing research studies. Urbanisation is often cited as one of the significant factors threatening food security. First of all, urbanisation leads to land use conversion from agricultural...