The paper is devoted to a variety of solutions aiming at taking time into account in economic and managerial analyses. It presents an example of a decision problem – namely the analysis of economic environment and of barriers to entry to a market space. Next, it shows how time can be treated in intelligent decision systems, in context of temporal knowledge representation and temporal reasoning.

Modeling and optimal solving of supply chain management problems lead to efficient decision making in strategic planning and supply chain operations, resulting in a competitive advantage. Today, with the planning of a sustainable supply chain, in addition to achieving economic goals, it is possible to meet social and environmental objectives and considerations. This research deal with sustainab...

In Brazil, Energy Market players dedicate many efforts in valuation and optimal allocation of capital decision to implement projects, due the large candidate projects number in their investment portfolios. The strategic decisions of those players should choose the projects subset that will be implemented, because usually, they don ́t have the financial resources to implement all then. Many are t...

Some economic and informational problems associated with organizational information technology (It) spending may be attributed to managerial rent-seeking. Because of the unavoidable incompleteness of labor contracts, managers with misaligned incentives and budgetary discretion could entrench themselves through their non-value-maximizing adoption decisions. In order to boost their bargaining pow...

The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

The presence of benchmark problems provides an important stimulus in fields related to the development of new methodologies. Currently, benchmark data for nature-inspired networks are scarce. To increase the collection of benchmark data, we propose, in this work, a number of interesting and rather difficult managerial and financial decision problems that can be found in the literature. Usually,...

This paper applies a value-based management framework to critically review empirical research in managerial accounting. This framework enables us to place the exceptionally diverse set of managerial accounting studies from the past several decades into an integrated structure. Our synthesis highlights the many consistent results in prior research, identifies remaining gaps and inconsistencies, ...