VOLUME 3(3) • 2008
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
ABSTRACT. Koivuaho studies four types of communication networks: bureaucratic, professional, adhocratic and communal; innovativeness often requires working at the boundaries of common knowledge, and crossing interdisciplinary lines. Gray and Densten contend that there is a lack of theory to elucidat..
THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN MARKET LIBERALIZATION
ABSTRACT. Amoroso holds that the policies for market liberalization belong to the process of economic marginalization. Amin observes that the new social democratic narrative assumes that a new global regulatory regime will be able to tackle the abuses of an unregulated capitalism without the need to..
GLOBAL MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS AND THE EVOLVING INFLATION PROCESS
ABSTRACT. Dueker uses a dynamic ordered probit model to estimate the spread between the banking system’s desired prime rate and the actual prime rate when changes are discrete. Sousa and Zaghini explicitly model a global G5 framework relying on a common structural identification scheme that works we..
ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Rusali and Gavrilescu claim that the general evolution trend of the Romanian agri-food trade flows after 1989 was a massive increase in imports and a drastic decrease of exports which resulted in a serious trade disequilibrium. Redžepagić remarks that in Romania the share of the work force..
TRANSFORMING MARKET STRUCTURES
ABSTRACT. Brady et al. hold that economic globalization has increased, especially among the affluent democracies. According to Amin, establishing a link between globalization and inequality is fraught with difficulty. Deetz points out that a market economy does not equal democracy, and that a market..
GLOBAL MARKETS, FISCAL GOVERNANCE, AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTABSTRACT.
ABSTRACT. Machinea et al. state that to strengthen private enterprise in open economies that are integrated into global markets, it is necessary to adapt and modernize the legal framework in which business activity takes place. Brady et al. maintain that globalization does not appear to have clearly..
THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF THE CMO FOR THE FRESH AND PROCESSED FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SECTORS
ABSTRACT. EPHA claims that availability of fresh food is crucial as is the role of the food industry in improving the nutritional content of processed food and limiting their promotional activity to children. NHF argues that a European Action Plan should be developed with the aim of increasing consu..
RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK-BASED AUDITING
ABSTRACT. Allegrini and D’Onza aim at achieving an overall view regarding the state of the art of internal auditing in large Italian companies. Miglietta et al. consider a group of companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange at the S&P/MIB Index (it shows the trend of equities which are selec..
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
ABSTRACT. According to Haden, the emergy theory of value states that the more previous work done, or energy dissipated, to produce something, the greater is its value. OECD asserts that, in financial services, wholesale markets are fairly well integrated, but that market segmentation in retail banki..
EVALUATING GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION
ABSTRACT. Machinea et al. write that a decisive factor in a country’s or region’s economic and productive development is the availability, capability and quality of its economic agents. Amoroso points out that the IMF is the institution that most successfully has been able to combine the objectives ..
MONETARY MACROECONOMICS AND INFLATION FORECASTS
ABSTRACT. Grimm and Ried analyze monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a monetary union under various scenarios and elaborate which scenarios are preferable from a welfare perspective. Goodwin contends that if economic theory is to guide people toward the creation of economic systems that will ..
DEVELOPING INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS, CORPORATE FORMS, AND THE RELIABILITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTS
ABSTRACT. Iwasaki looks at the legal framework regulating the corporate forms of the Russian JSCs as well as its significance in the context of organizational strategy. Himeno looks at the roles of information security and associated loopholes as it relates to the development of overall IT control s..