Financial distress prediction is an essential issue in finance. Especially in emerging economies, predicting the future financial situation of individual corporate entities is even more significant, bearing in mind the general economic turmoil that can be caused by business failures. The...

Banking is a popular topic for empirical and methodological research that applies operational research (OR) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. This article provides a comprehensive and structured bibliographic survey of OR- and AI-based research devoted to the banking industry over the...

Banking crises can be damaging for the economy, and as the recent experience has shown, nowadays they can spread rapidly across the globe with contagious effects. Therefore, the assessment of the stability of the banking sectors is important for regulators, depositors, investors and the general...

Purpose The scope of this study is to explore informed citizens' engagement in the development of real municipalities' popular reports. For this purpose, an exploratory experiment is performed where potential users of popular reports with certain accounting skills (i.e. groups of undergraduate...

Over the last decade, the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has experienced impressive growth in different countries. Using a market- based approach, Social Enterprises (SEs) incorporate commercial forms of revenue generation (creating economic value) as a vehicle to accomplish their social...

This paper presents an alternative way for content analysis implementation in order to disentangle and interpret intellectual capital (IC) voluntary disclosures. Content analysis technique has been widely used during the last decade to analyze and systematize intellectual capital reporting. In...