Trusts for Business Purposes

Empowering e-fleets for business and private purposes in cities

Adapting a Cultural Process for Business Purposes Through Technology Mediation

People engage in a number of common everyday activities that appear to have no business utility. However, by mediating such cultural processes with technology it is possible to adapt them for business purposes. This paper presents a case study of a novel, virtually no-cost, yet extremely effective online advertising mechanism used for the past three years in a special kind of business web site ...

Who Trusts Others?

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: (i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; (ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and, to a lesse...

Components of Risk for Investment Trusts

Risk assessment is a topical subject in the investment trust sector. Several fund management groups have started issuing risk gradings for their investment trusts. Money Management and Micropal now publish volatility figures and in March 1995, the Association of Investment Trust Companies issued a factsheet on risk for private investors which proposed the use of volatility in the risk assessmen...

Issues and Methods in French for Business and Economic Purposes, Patricia W. Cummins, editor