The Importance of Business and Organizational Environment -- The Effects of Strategic Design on Business Operations -- Strategic and Innovative Thinking -- Risk Management Activities in Business Operations.

This contributed volume explores and reveals the new developments, dynamics and recommendations for entrepreneurship education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Presenting papers by respected experts in the field, it shares essential insights on the status quo of entrepreneurial...

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques. Taking into account the latest mathematical and econometric developments in finance, it analyzes the hedging securities and structured instruments that are offered by banks, since recent research in...

This book explores the nature and uniqueness of leadership in Iceland within a business and economic context. Starting with an analysis of Iceland’s geographical location, historical development and societal culture, the authors critically examine the major elements of the Icelandic business...

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation...

1 Introduction -- 2 The family business -- 3 Earnings management in family firms -- 4 Accounting conservatism in family firms -- 5 Corporate disclosure in family firms -- 6 The relationship between accounting choice and family business: What is the role of culture? -- 7 Conclusions.

Chapter 1: European Union between the Big Bang and the Big Crunch -- Chapter 2: The Single European Market - challenges for doing business -- chapter 3: European Union Trade Policy -- Chapter 4: European Cohesion Policy.- Chapter 5: The relationship between EU competition and innovation in the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature review and theoretical propositions -- Chapter 3. Methods -- Chapter 4. Empirical results -- Chapter. 5 Discussion of the results -- Chapter 6. Conclusions and Implications.

1 Introduction -- 2 Enterprise Resource Planning systems -- 3 Business Intelligence systems -- 4 ERP and BI as tools to improve information quality in the Italian setting: the research design -- 5 ERP and BI as tools to improve information quality in the Italian setting: empirical analysis -- 6...

This book provides a practice-driven, yet rigorous approach to executive management decision-making that performs well even under unpredictable conditions. It explains how executives can employ prescribed engineering design methods to arrive at robust outcomes even when faced with uncontrollable...