Energy firms provide key sources of energy needed to power the world economy. This paper offers a current overview of major energy firms in Germany, including location, geographic operations, and financial performance. German energy firms increasingly use renewable energy sources, thereby...

Energy companies provide critical economic resources for advanced societies. Yet, critics complain about climate change and excess profits. A plethora of research offers ample evidence, from scientific and policy experts, that climate change is not a significant problem, whether human-caused or...

One of the biggest issues facing the global agriculture industry is the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in crops and food products. This study compares financial performance of major GMO food companies to other industries. Findings indicate that GMO companies had an average higher...

This paper provides a brief overview of three countries, including background information, accounting, and capital markets. The countries represent three major world regions: India in southwest Asia, Singapore in the Pacific Rim, and South Africa in Africa. Each country plays a major economic...

By examining the significant flaws in multivariate risk analysis and integrated risk analysis, this article introduces a new approach to evaluating the total risk within complex risk systems: the principle of multi-dimensional risk (MDR) analysis. Under this framework, the scope of each...

Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) first proposed Global Consumer Culture Positioning (GCCP) as an alternative advertising strategy comparing with Local Consumer Culture Positioning (LCCP) and Foreign Consumer Culture Positioning (FCCP). Since then, several important studies have been conducted...

Since carbon emission trading place an important role in energy sector in EU. This paper tries to examine the correlation between energy stock and carbon price. We divided energy stock into new and conventional to observe their different reaction on carbon price. EU ETS is designed to increase...

Davis’s (1996) Social Judgment Scheme (SJS) is a conceptually well established and empirically well tested group decision model. This study uses an agent based model to simulate the dynamic interaction in Social Judgment Scheme (SJS) and expand it as Dynamic Social Judgment Scheme (DSJS) by...

Research suggests that new information technologies can improve the functionality of business processes, leading to improved firm profitability. However, new technologies are not equal in their contributions to a company’s bottom line. Further, there is some debate as to whether early adopters...

The adverse effect of corruption has been widely investigated in literature. Corruption is said to hamper both economic and human development. A foe of transparency and ethical business ambiance, corruption promotes a trans-lucid accounting milieu. In this paper we investigate the impact of...