Corporate capital structure has been a key, challenging puzzle for finance for more than 50 years. Why do firms use the observed financing methods? The literature has developed useful ideas and a much-improved sense of the relevant facts to solve this puzzle. Taxes, the need to fund investments,...

Purpose: The prominence of quality education for building sustainable development is undeniable and is distinctly pointed out in 1 of the 14 sustainable development goals (SDGs). In the same context, this study intends to investigate the role of university commitment, perceived organisational...

Cultural heritage archiving is experiencing an increase in digitalisations of artefacts in the last 15 years. The reason behind this trend is a demand for providing information about the artefact in a more accessible way to the audience, for example, through online delivery or virtual reality....

“First principles” of international business (IB) thinking should be applied systematically when assessing the functioning of internationally operating firms. The most important first principle is that entrepreneurially oriented firms seek to create, deliver and capture economic value...

Given the abundance of online data, the exponential random graph models are helpful tools that enable researchers to answer causal inference questions considering cross-sectional network data. This chapter explains (a) what an ERGM is, (b) what kind of research this class of model can help with,...

Abstract Why is Finland failing to adequately address the issue of child poverty? Approximately 150,000 children are currently “at risk of poverty.” As data on at-risk-of-poverty (AROP) and financial assistance over a 30-year period illustrates, numbers, in percentage terms, remain fairly...