In the last two decades corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly when related to environmental issues, has been discussed extensively in the business literature. However, defining and measuring CSR remains a complicated process. One of the main reasons for the problematic measurement of CSR is the absence of a common framework in which business-society relations will be included. Wit...

With a constant new stream of financial services coming to the market, each often more exotic and complicated than the last, the financial services industry, which includes commodity derivatives exchanges, brokerage houses and banks providing price risk reduction services (the so-called hedging services), is one of the fastest growing industries. In order to assure survival, these companies sho...

This research has developed an analytical framework based on resource-based theory. It intends to find out the impact of different attributes on supply chain performance and financial performance under different IT capabilities and application degrees. The hypothesis test model incorporating five measuring variables is conducted; they are strategy of e-business, application degree of e-business...

introduction: in any organization particularly in health care centers, the clients' satisfaction provides the conditions to achieve the pre-determined objectives. one of the ways to get the clients' satisfaction is to follow the clients' takrim plan. to this end, in this article, the clients' takrim plan was studied in health centers affiliated with oil industry organization. methods and materi...

The reform of 1989 exposed Hungarian industry to foreign competition and confronted it to the loss of the vast and undemanding COMECON market, the withdrawal of public support and the need for privatisation. Based on twenty-four interviews in pharmaceutical, electronics, automotive and textile companies, this paper gives insight into the efforts made by Hungarian industry to upgrade its technol...

After the burst of the bubble economy in 1990, the Japanese economy has been on a downward slide and many companies have been faced with financial difficulties. Hence, a certain prediction model to assess the financial distress of Japanese firms is required. This paper presents some empirical results of a study regarding financial ratios as predictors of Japanese corporate failure, evidenced by...