The growth of product concept testing in the financial services industry raises the issue of recognising and handling bias created by the nature of measurement instruments. Specifically, the ordering, nature and context of questions affects the results obtained by market potential measures. The...

The problem of multi‐branch and multi‐functional financial service organisations in obtaining timely and actionable information in a manner that can enhance co‐ordination among operational units and personnel is addressed. Tracking systems are proposed as a vehicle for improving...

Soon after Enron was formed as a regulated gas pipeline company in 1985, economic events forced a dramatic reorganization of the company. The result was the creation of an unregulated energy trading operation whose mission was to capitalize on opportunities arising from the deregulation of the...

Leading financial economists and activist institutional investors have long argued that the proper alignment of manager and shareholder interests requires the use of performance based compensation. Partly in response to these pressures, and in combination with a change in the tax code that...

<Para ID="Par1">Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour market policies. Yet they are defined and implemented differently across OECD countries, and their success rates vary too. The Great Recession has posed a severe stress test for...</para>

There is a fair amount of interest in the use of Galois or Concept Lattices in the social sciences as a way of representing complex data structures; it does not seem to be widely appreciated that these structures are homologous to those arising from a discrete noncompensatory multidimensional...