Service industries are radically transforming the manner in which firms operate within the context of globalisation and service delivery mechanisms, thereby creating new service industry and market opportunities. Innovations ...

Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning and innovation play in determining multinational and multinational subsidiary performance. The present ...

This paper discusses the loose integration approach in building collaborative virtual environments as a collection of several underlying technologies. The framework allows to develop an open integrated environment which ...

Innovation Project Portfolio Management (IPPM) practices are a dynamic capability that provides competitive advantage by dynamically adjusting the organisation’s portfolio of projects and resource allocation profile for ...

The purpose of this paper is to summarise a recent doctoral thesis on the relationship between project portfolio management (PPM) and competitive advantage in service and manufacturing organisations. This paper adopts a ...

In this paper, we develop a structural model of household behavior in an environment where there is uncertainty about brand attributes and both prices and advertising signal brand quality. Four quality signaling mechanisms ...

In this paper, we examine the integration of European government bond markets using daily returns over the 1998¿2003 period with a set of complementary techniques to assess the time varying level of financial integration. ...

We examine the influence of the European Monetary Union (EMU) on the dynamic process of stock market integration over the period 2 January 1989¿29 May 2003 using a bivariate EGARCH framework with time-varying conditional ...

Forecasting future period profitability is widely Identified as an aim of financial statement analysis, and these forecasts are typically relied upon for the estimation of firm value. To facilitate this, the decomposition ...

This paper investigates the extent of earnings management in the periods surrounding CEO changes by Australian firms. Evidence is presented of incoming CEOs undertaking earnings management to reduce income in the year of ...