University education is focused on the acquisition of skills by students, regardless of the technical nature of the subjects and syllabus. In the field of accounting, previous literature has confirmed the existence of a gap in expectations between the skills of students and what would be...

In order to manage and analyse customer interactions and data across the customer lifecycle, businesses employ a mix of practises, strategies, a technology is developed and is called customer relationship management (CRM). The goal is to strengthen interactions with customers in order to promote...

In order to manage and analyse customer interactions and data across the customer lifecycle, businesses employ a mix of practises, strategies, and technology called customer relationship management (CRM). The goal is to strengthen interactions with customers in order to promote client retention...

This research aims to adapt the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror and its use on Portuguese Accounting Professionals. Leymann scale was applied in a final sample of 478 accountants aged between 28 and 68, of which 47.5% were men and 52.5% women. We used a quantitative methodology by...

This is the first large-scale academic study evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on the accounting profession. We find that physical restrictions and economic hardships resulting from COVID-19 impeded accountants’ productivity, ability to perform their work, ability to maintain relationships...

Accounting professionals experience client-initiated workplace aggression, and prior research suggests the mechanisms used to cope with workplace aggression can influence the extent to which such aggression detrimentally affects work quality. We survey 163 accounting professionals to examine the...

Ethical behavior is deemed important in today's environment as corruption scandals persist to exist. Financial malpractices have directed research attention to increase professional accountant's ethicality. This paper tries to analyses the ethical behavior of Bruneian Accounting professionals in...

"This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo's business interests...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

"Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian...

The rise of the ICU, 1919-27 -- Garveyism and the ICU, 1920-1927 -- The ICU and the segregation state, 1921-27 -- The communists and the ICU, 1923-28 -- The ICU and International socialism, 1927-29 -- Moderates and the ICU, 1924-1928 -- The fragmentation of the ICU, 1928-1930 -- Legacies of the ICU.

"Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity,...

Accounting profession is traditional profession and accounting rules and principles have been established and are the same for many years. However, globalization of business, stronger regulations and numerous technological solutions and innovations are not bypassing the accounting profession...

Historically, in most countries, the accounting profession has always been male-dominated. Liberal professions such as lawyers, engineers, architects and doctors share the common trait of conservatism. The accounting profession, which is also a liberal profession, is no exception. Starting from...

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China. Unlike European merchants, their Sino-colleagues have long been regarded as certain social pariahs after pre-Qin period, despite the fortune they made. The key mission of this monograph is to investigate whether the...

Endings and Beginnings -- From Peddling to Prominence-The Early Years -- The William H. Block Company -- H. P. Wasson and Company -- The College Boards -- L. Strauss and Company: "He'll Open His Strauss Gift First" -- Davidson's and Paul Harris: Haute (and Not So Haute) Couture Pioneers -- The...

"The book was drafted by Jesuits and their students of the Flemish province to commemorate the Society of Jesus's hundred years of existence. It was as much a homage to the Society's founders as a celebration of the spiritual and material achievements of its members over the century, with a...

The Portuguese in the East Asian seas in the 16th century -- The structure and content of Namban trade -- The Namban trade and Nagasaki merchants: structure of investment and capital injection -- Macao and the Namban trade: the "maritime loan" debt problem -- Religion and power in Macao -- The...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institution: designed system faced by Ming merchants -- Chapter 3: Monopoly: merchants and monarchy -- Chapter 4: Taxation: levy on merchants -- Chapter 5: International Trade: merchants’ predicament and opportunities -- Chapter 6: Consumption: two pairs...

"Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key...

"This book is the result of a research process of long durée. Entirely original material rubs shoulders with other work that has already seen the light of day in the form of previous versions of articles and chapters in books, normally in languages other than English. Some of the earlier...