The subject of Value Based Management (VBM) in general, and Economic Value Added (EVASUP align=rightSMALLTM/SMALL/SUP) in particular, is one that is assuming increasing significance in both the academic and practitioner environments. This study adds to the literature in that it uses data from...

The subject of Value Based Management (VBM) in general, and Economic Value Added (EVA<SUP align="right"><SMALL>TM</SMALL></SUP>) in particular, is one that is assuming increasing significance in both the academic and practitioner environments. This study adds to the literature in that it uses data from interviews with key informants...</small></sup>

Economies are accompanied by periodic cycles to a certain extent. Depressions always precede recessions, but a depression doesn’t need to necessarily follow a recession. A depression cannot be overcome without regulation and state intervention (sometimes even by associations of states). This...