This paper presents evidence suggesting that artificial neural networks approach (ANNs) outperform traditional statistical methods and can forecast equity premiums reasonably well. The study replicates out-of-sample estimates of regression using ANN with economic fundamentals as inputs. The...

This paper presents evidence suggesting that artificial neural networks approach (ANNs) outperform traditional statistical methods and can forecast equity premiums reasonably well. The study replicates out-of-sample estimates of regression using ANN with economic fundamentals as inputs. The...

Current literature on the developmentally disabled indicates they represent a large untapped labor pool that is significantly inhibited in its inclusion in the community. To address this unnecessary isolation, a voluntary agency in Georgia, wanted to innovate its service offering by providing...

Competing Values Framework (CVF) has attracted attention in the organization literature but little is known about how competing values can inform development of voluntary organizations. Against this backdrop, we present an action research study into Right in the Community (RitC), a voluntary...

Improving technology products and services by acquiring requisite innovation capability can be challenging: The acquired firm needs to be integrated into the provider’s operation to realize synergies, but such integration might jeopardize the acquired firm’s continued ability to innovate....

Microfranchising has emerged as a potential strategy to rapidly scale up entrepreneurship within base of the pyramid (BOP) markets in order to contribute to poverty reduction and to increase economic growth. However, we know little about how such networks are designed and orchestrated in...

The Base of the Pyramid (BOP) strategy is an important opportunity for the world's private sector to create new business opportunities while at the same time helping address and alleviate poverty. However, while the literature describes several cases, we still have limited knowledge about the...

This in-depth exploratory case study examines the real estate decision-making processes in two small, charitable organizations through the lens of Actor Network Theory (ANT). The analysis looked at the relative roles played by various internal and external actors (including influential non-human...

The purpose of this research is to understand how microfinance organizations innovate their products, services, and processes to improve financial inclusion. The approach used is a retrospective, longitudinal, qualitative case study of how Grameen Foundation, a global non-government organization...