This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions.

The characteristics and organizational impacts of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Project requires highly professional Project Manager skills and attributes. Some may be learned or bought but the more important skills need to be part of the Project Manager´s personal...

This paper deals with trends over a time-frame early 1990s to early 2000s showing how a Project Manager has evolved to be an Enterprise Coach, Leader, Supporter.

In order to maximize a piecewise affine concave function one can basically use the simplex method or an interior point method. As an alternative, we propose the face simplex method. The vertex to vertex scheme of the simplex method is replaced by a more general face to face scheme in the face...

Partial-least squares regression (PLS) is a statistical tool specifically designed to cope with problems like small datasets, missing values and the presence of multicollinearity . The paper proceeds first with a concise review of the PLS method.

Diversity in teams has been previously defined in terms of the nominal categories into which team members "fall". The core argument of this paper is that diversity is a subjective experience of social categories to which members "feel" they belong. These categories, or social identities, may...

Wissensmanagement und Personalmanagement haben eine zentrale Schnittmenge : den Mitarbeiter als Träger organizationalen Wissens. Je höher die Wissensintensität einer Branche ist und je mehr hochqualifizierte wissensintensive Produkte oder Dienste im Angebotsprogram eines Unternehmens zu...

In this paper, the authors discuss the concept of Customer Knowledge Management (CKM), which refers to the management of knowledge from customers, i.e. knowledge resident in customers, in contrast to knowledge about customers, e.g. customer characteristics and preferences prevalent in previous...

An interpretative analysis of in-depth consumer interviews explores the relationship between the concepts of "luxury" and "prestige" as applied to brands.

This paper presents results on the convergence for hedging strategies in the setting of incomplete financial markets. We examine the convergence of the so-called locally risk-minimizing strategy.(...)