The paper assesses the business default risk on a cross-national sample of 3000 companies applying for credit to an international bank operating in Romania. The structure of the sample replicates the structure of the general population of companies in Romania. Based on their past credit history, we have distributed the companies in seven classes plus the default, using and adapting the Standard...

The maritime health services system is presented in this review article. The national Iranian shipping line IRISL owns the largest commercial fleet in the Middle East and it operates 137 ships. This company and several other national shipping companies employ over 5900 seafarers. There are 11,000 fishing ships and boats and the number of Iranian fishermen reaches 124,000. Seafarers and fisherme...

NHS histopathology laboratories are well placed to develop banks of surgically removed surplus human tissues to meet the increasing demands of commercial biomedical companies. The ultimate aim could be national network of non-profit making NHS tissue banks conforming to national minimum ethical, legal, and quality standards which could be monitored by local research ethics committees. The Nuffi...

Building on prior research on how boards should provide stakeholder transparency by disclosing on how their organizations are governing their IT assets, this paper provides an exploratory insight in the contemporary state of IT governance transparency in Belgian and South African companies. Specifically, the influence of the national corporate governance code on IT governance transparency is in...

Nowadays, IS security is one of the most basic issues that organizations need to focus on. Despite huge investment made by companies to keep their systems safe, there are many security breaches, often caused by insiders. Most investments in security are for technological solutions; however, they are often insufficient and the literature suggests there is one significant element that has been gi...

This paper analyzes the cooperative model as a trend towards new types or relations within National Innovation Systems. Based on the review of the evolution of the national innovations systems and the analysis of the meaning of cooperation in the technological field, we expose that a cooperative innovation system model fulfill the ultimate objective of satisfying the technological requirements ...

This paper assesses the degree of financial and economic globalisation of British and German pharmaceutical companies during 1990 and 2001 and explores the changing balance between globalisation and national embeddedness. It tries to explain both the much lower degree of globalisation of German as compared to British companies in 1990, as well as their catching up at the beginning of the 21 cen...

Platform business models as AppStore, SNS (social network service) and online marketplace are creating new markets and providing opportunities to dominate. And they are considered as a blueprint for future business. Trying to create or enter a new business area, the more interested companies and consumers can be induced to minimize the risk. Platform could maximize the profitability of private ...

Companies increasingly form interdependent relationships between contractors and sub-contractors that extend across national borders and legal jurisdictions. In consequence, supply chain risk management (SCRM) is an increasing concern for the cyber security of safety-critical systems. The following pages argue that outsourcing undermines SCRM by eroding technical expertise, which companies need...