Long-short strategies are one of the most successful tools, applied by hedge funds manager. One under-evaluated stock is bought (long position) and an over-evaluated stock is sold (short position) at the same time. After a short term, when the values of the stocks are as expected, profit can be realized by a closing transaction. The possibility to find first obvious overand underevaluated stock...

An extensive economics literature has examined business environmental management to identify characteristics and external institutional stakeholder pressures that influence management decisions. Frequently, it is assumed that profit pursuit is the goal, and organizations subject to the same pressures respond similarly. Studies have identified a narrow set of influential stakeholders, but have r...

In social and non-profit organisations with partnership governance, conflicts are more numerous difficult to mitigate. Ostrom’s organisational principles guarantee the stabilisation of such organisations, but we lack studies about ways restore their stability after a conflict crisis. Based on Rahim’s works handling styles’ influence over long-lasting collaborations, hypothesize linkage between ...

This study evaluated the productivity of non-profit hospitals in the USA in applying DEA-base Malmquist productivity Change index, decomposed into technical efficiency change index and technical progressive change index. Data used for this analysis consisted of 118 non-profit hospital utilization data and financial statements from 1993 through 2003. DEA-based Malmquist was conducted to measure ...

Liquid assets which non-profit institutions hold are not a source of any special interests and although the close to cash assets together with credit lines available for non-profit institution are connected with resigning from realizing a part of income or costs, non-profit institutions decide to hold some liquidity reserves. This results not only from transactional needs, but also from precaut...