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Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory.

This book examines food quality, product conformance, reliability and safety, starting with wheat and ending with its value chain transformation into bread. Shows how to apply Kaizen with classic quality improvement methods to strengthen food safety systems.

This book describes how non-profit organisations (NPOs) communicate what they constitute, signal success and display sustainability in order to convince stakeholders to provide essential resources.

This book approaches the question of the relation between financial crises and earnings management from two philosophical perspectives: positivism and critical realism.

This book analyzes the relationship between integrated reporting and audit quality within the European context, presenting empirical evidence and drawing on a broad review of the available literature in order to evaluate the ability of integrated reporting to enhance audit risk assessment.

This book introduces methods of robust optimization in multivariateadaptive regression splines (MARS) and Conic MARS in order to handleuncertainty and non-linearity.

This book provides two important contributions to existing theories in the financial innovation literature. First, it extends the existing literature of innovation orientation to a completely new field and construct that is based on a religious imperative as a framework within which financial innovation is constrained.

This book addresses synergy management, which poses an important challenge for firms, advisors and practitioners involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance.

and are presented and analysed in various fields of application, such as investment management, stock management, strategic decision making, management of production costs and the lifecycle costs of quality and non-quality products, production quality Management, etc.

Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition.

This book presents empirical evidence on the convergence of financial and management accounting in the Italian context.

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising.

This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance. Besides a review of classical finance models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), other contemporary models and techniques to determine the cost-of-capital of business units and private companies are discussed.

Inter-Organizational Relationships

This book deals with the concepts of leadership and communication in business organizations, initially on a general level and then in detail through an analysis of specific cases. The interaction of leadership and communication is examined explaining organizational communication and its tools.

This book focuses on the relationship between corporate governance and earnings management, and shows that corporate governance is effective in improving earnings quality and reducing accounting and governance risks.

Uniform Across-the-Board Promotions (UABPs) are characterized by retailers offering a uniform discount on the entire assortment (e.g. Furthermore this book provides guidance for retail and marketing managers on how to best profit from UABPs, to increase sales and profits while balancing the risks associated with this type of promotion.

This book studies 300 firms across various industries, providing readers with a comprehensive view of how firms develop sustainable competitive advantages by establishing business partnerships.

This book explores methods for measuring trust and its role as a driver of organizational performance, and reveals the key role of management accountants in facilitating the flow of trust between CEOs and line managers.

This penetrating analysis of a much-overlooked topic in the international literature presents the legal foundations, functional remit, and governance responsibilities of the bank foundations that play such a key role in the Italian not-for-profit sector.

This book explains the knowledge and technology transfer process of multinational corporations in an emerging economy. It presents a comprehensive empirical research conducted at firm-level in the Turkish automotive industry.

Transportation management in today's consumer goods industry can be characterized by a high proportion of outsourced transportation services.

This book presents the comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. The aim of the empirical study is to determine such factors - national or industrial ones - that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries.

1 Background of the Study: Ef?ciency in Cross-Cultural International Business Management Ef?cient business management is crucial in achieving corporate (national or int- national/multinational) goals such as higher value, comprehensiveness, corporate governance, etc.

Traditionally internal control has had a fairly direct relationship to financial reporting quality but wider approaches to internal control have expanded those boundaries much further. Also there is much to learn about internal control quality, and the way internal control quality is associated with overall corporate governance quality.

Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book.