Businesses operating in the Global Financial Services Industry (GFSI) know the importance of protecting information assets from ever-growing security threats and risks. This paper aims at shedding light on the relationships between four relevant contextual factors i.e. national legal infrastructure, transparency levels, ethical behavior of firms, and capacity for innovation, on the one hand, an...

Increased globalization of financial and product markets has raised the interest of both market participants and regulators in the quality of financial reporting worldwide. The rise in the volatility of stock returns across the globe in the past couple of years has also been a concern. Could greater transparency in financial statement information reduce volatility and produce more accurate stoc...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention has been given to the transparency of potential conflicts of interest in clinical medicine and biomedical sciences, particularly in journal publishing and science advisory panels. The authors examined the degree and type of financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry of panel members responsible for revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental D...

The burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic means that more labor and financial resources are being dedicated to the procurement of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines for treatment. While patients, physicians, national governments and development partners are eager to see treatment programs expanded, rapid scaleup often results in circumstances whereby resources have to be spent quickly, and sometimes resourc...

Since the nineties, transparency has gained significant attention in the eu context, being mainly viewed as a response to the lack of legitimacy and as a mean to cope with the democratic deficit. Furthermore, the notion of transparency has emerged in a wide range of other areas, ranging from legislation on financial matters to social law and to recruitment by the EU Institutions1. Despite the d...

BACKGROUND Authors of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) disclose financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) to promote transparency ethics. Typically, they do so on standard declaration forms containing generic open-ended questions on FCOIs. Yet, the literature is scant on the format and effect of alternative disclosure forms. Does supplementing a standard form with subsequent detailed disclosur...

A variety of transparency rules and government regulations as well as risk management policies in Bulgaria set the basis for the establishment of the young Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) the way it exists today. Similar to other Eastern European countries, Bulgaria started its mass privatization process and re-established the Bulgarian Stock Exchange Market in 1995. By the end of 1999 the Bulga...