Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of information transparency in a for‐profit business environment, and explain the importance and relevance of the concept in creating a transparent organization. Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of a sample of...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss best practices in corporate libraries. It is limited to libraries within the USA and excludes medical, hospital, pharmaceutical and government libraries. Design/methodology/approach – Definitions of a corporate library and best practices are presented...

Recent attention has been given to the hypothesis that local hospital competition takes the form of costly duplication of specialized services -- the "medical arms race." This contrasts with the hypothesis that the supply of specialized services is determined solely by "the extent of the...

This paper presents a technique for estimating a firm's brand equity that is based on the financial market value of the firm. Brand equity is defined as the incremental cash flows which accrue to branded products over unbranded products. The estimation technique extracts the value of brand...