The current context of market based economy has highlighted the great importance of intangible assets because innovation is considered to be the major factor for economic growth. Whether they are labeled as intangible assets, invisible assets, knowledge capital, core competences, etc., these...

This paper extends previous research, which investigated the relationship between performance and corporate governance practices. This study examines the concept of corporate governance in Turkey and compares compliance with good governance norms by high performance companies (HPCs) and...

Previous studies on companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) revealed that most of these entities do not meet the new corporate governance requirements about independent directors, Audit Committee members and the general recommendations of transparency. Companies that apply a lower...

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of social networks on educational process in Romanian higher education. Employing a theoretical framework regarding the educational value of the social networking web sites, we propose a model of implementing Facebook usage in higher...

The emergence of the Internet has widely opened opportunities for web applications based on the modeling of textual knowledge from electronic documents, with the aim of identifying the useful parts. This is also the case of e-recruitment applications, which aim at the optimizing and automating...

Mobile Payment Systems (MPS) such as Google Wallet are an emerging technology. This paper examines if mobile assurance as provided by examining the five criteria, namely security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy (as per the Trust Framework by the American...

Previous research studied characteristics of high performance companies (HPCs) in mature economies (United States, Europe, and Australia) and in an Asian emerging economy (India). This study of HPCs in the developing economy investigates Turkish companies that are listed in the Istanbul Stock...

Over the past few years, the implementation of IT governance concept has increasingly gained the attention of the Romanian companies’ senior management. IT governance is a comprehensive term that encompasses IT processes, IT resources, information, business and legal issues, and all concerns...

2009 was an important year, internationally, for the financial reporting of small and medium-sized enterprises. First of all, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published the International Financial Reporting Standard for the Small and Medium–Sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs)....