Purpose: To reduce products' environmental impact over their entire life cycle, adequate reuse and recycling of products and their components are indispensable. In this context, it is important to establish efficient closed-loop manufacturing systems (CMS), where products are made from post-use...

A strong relationship between the firm's financial ratios and its security characteristics is observed when canonical correlation analysis is applied, rather than attempts to measure the volatile relationships between the individual variables. It is seen from a sample of 32 firms for the period...

Moderator's Note: Due to the limited circulation of the Finnish Journal of Business Economics, I decided to classify this paper as substantially "unpublished" for the purpose of applying the newsgroup charter. This is an experiment that may or may not be continued as the newsgroup matures. I...