1 Understanding Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey with Plasma as a Metaphor of the Fourth State of Matter -- 2 Language and Discourse as a Leadership Tool in Chaos Environment -- 3 Understanding The New Generation Universities: Learning, Teaching and Managing -- 4 Chaotic Awareness and Simulacra...

The historical events of 9/11, the subsequent wars, and the coincidental collapse of corporations and economies have heightened the perception of complexity and uncertainty in the business environment. Executive managers face unprecedented challenges, solutions for which are often beyond the...

“Tourism and Chaos” is a literary production that gives a reflection about postmodern touristic thinking, focusing principally on the theories of Alberto Sessa, Claude Kaspar, José Miguel Fernández Güell, and finally, the World Tourism Organization, WTO. This text pretends to integrate,...

Relieving bank managers from traditional liability for negligence is contrary to the legislative and executive intent in passing FIRREA and economically suboptimal. Misinterpreting FIRREA to permit negligent management of banks will create perverse incentives for excessive bank risks and lead to...

A model is proposed of a population of competing companies that are in a coevolutionary race and whose evolutionary performance is evaluated by a financial market, composed of value investors and of a breed of arbitrageurs that perform bargain arbitrage, trying to identify 'bargains' in the form...

The impact of increasing leverage in the economy produces hyperreaction of market participants to variations of their revenues. If the income of banks decreases, they mass-reduce their lendings; if corporations sales drop, and due to existing debt they cannot adjust their liquidities by further...

This article is primarily an examination of whether the filing of form 4's under the '34 Act has a particular effect on the movement of securities prices. The ultimate results are then analyzed under traditional market theories, which are introduced earlier in the paper. The main question...

This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a uni-directional urban development has had a detrimental impact upon healthy growth and quality of life...

In this paper we give a generalized model of the interest rates term structure including Nelson-Siegel and Svensson structure. For that we introduce a continuous m-factor exponential-polynomial form of forward interest rates and demonstrate its considerably better performance in a fitting of the...