Trusted computing systems offer great promise in corporate and governmental applications. Their uptake has been very slow outside of the national security agencies for which they were developed, in part because they have been difficult and expensive to configure and use. Recent designs are easier to use, but some compliance and governance issues are unresolved. Our analysis suggests that crypto...

ABSTRACT In the credit risk modeling literature, there are two different viewpoints towards the structural model of Merton. Many empirical tests show that the Merton model overestimates corporate bond prices substantially. However, there are other empirical works defensing that the Merton model is useful in predicting default and performs well in estimating deposit insurance fund. In this paper...

This article places corporate social responsibility in the context of the resourcebased view of the firm, then uses relationship management to explain the growing involvement of businesses in corporate social responsibility activities. It argues that the value of the public relations function to an enterprise is in its capacity to aid relationship management, but at a level linked to corporate ...

This paper describes corporate branding as an organisational tool whose successful application depends on attending to the strategic, organisational and communicational context in which it is used. A model to help managers analyse context in terms of the alignment between strategic vision, organisational culture and corporate image is presented. Themodel is based on a gap analysis, which enable...

Social media (SM) platforms are being used for many purposes. As they were successful in accumulating a large number of well-networked user communities over the recent years, those platforms and their communities became interesting for corporate and commercial use, visible in a wave of books on businesses and SM. However, the “corporate user” normally is composed of many individual users that i...

We show that a gravity model explains international transactions in "nancial assets at least as well as goods trade transactions. Our results support the hypothesis that informational asymmetries are responsible for the strong negative relationship between asset trade and distance. This result is very important for theories of asset trade, portfolio adjustments and home bias. We strengthen it b...

This paper offers a high-level, non-scientific assessment regarding the impact of research library based data management services, particularly related to predictive data analytics – an area where the corporate sector has arguably made more tangible impact. The fundamental premise rests upon the assertion that research libraries should consider the potential consequences, need for interpretatio...

In this study, a multistage evolutionary programming (EP) based support vector machine (SVM) ensemble model is proposed for designing a corporate bankruptcy prediction system to discriminate healthful firms from bad ones. In the proposed model, a bagging sampling technique is first used to generate different training sets. Based on the different training sets, some different SVM models with dif...

For the past several years, the JACMP has issued awards to several manuscripts deemed by the Board of Editors to be worthy of the designation “Best Papers.” These awards are selected by a committee of the Board of Editors and are supported by grants from some of our corporate sponsors. By listing the Best Papers of 2009, I would like to honor the award winners for their contributions to the cli...

In this paper, we show that ignoring corporate intangible investments gives a distorted picture of the post-1990 U.S. economy. In particular, ignoring intangible investments in the late 1990s leads one to conclude that productivity growth was modest, corporate profits were low, and corporate investment was at moderate levels. In fact, the late 1990s was a boom period for productivity growth, co...