The agricultural goods futures market has recently regained the interest of corporate business, research institutions, and governments. This renewed interest is brought about by the increasing volatility of the prices of agricultural raw materials. In turn, these reflect the shift that has taken place in the European Union’s joint agricultural policy: from price support to income support and to...

when ontologies are used to support corporate application domains such as electronic commerce (ecommerce) and some technical problems in deploying ontologies for real-world use. In particular, we focus on issues of ontology integration and the related problem of semantic mapping, that is, the mapping of ontologies and taxonomies to reference ontologies to preserve semantics. Along the way, we d...

Because of increased job requirements, workforce flexibility and lifelong learning, corporate training services have grown into a key approach for improving organizational performance. Transfer-of-training is a key output of these services, defined as the application and generalization of new competences at work acquired in training. Today corporate trainings focus on blended learning by combin...

The successful adoption of IT innovation and the attraction of qualified human resources are both crucial for organizational performance. However, there is still surprisingly little research at the intersection of both fields: the adoption, diffusion and infusion of IT within corporate HR processes. This is astonishing as evolving IT support in recent years has substantially transformed HR proc...

Knowledge assets and the learning capacity of an organization are the main source of competitive advantage. Therefore, there is a growing interest in knowledge management (KM) and corporate memories (CM). The objectives of KM are to promote growth, communication, and preservation of knowledge in the organization. To support knowledge management a corporate memory must provide functionalities to...

Corporate credit scoring is important for investors and banks in risk management. However, the high dimensional data available from public financial statements make credit analysis difficult. To address the problem, dimensionality reduction is a key step to enhance scoring accuracy. By using semi-supervised discriminant analysis (SSDA) and support vector machines (SVMs), this study develops a n...

In this paper, we argue that individuals - as members of society - play an important role in the expectations of whether or not companies are responsible for addressing environmental issues, and whether or not governments should regulate them. From this perspective of corporate social responsibility as a social contract we report the results of a survey of 1066 individuals. The aim of the surve...

Any serious non-profit Board discussion of development strategies inevitably reaches a point where someone asserts, " why aren't we doing more with corporations? Our organization is a perfect match for corporate sponsors… so why aren't we pursuing those opportunities more aggressively? " Well, perhaps your non-profit is a perfect match for corporate sponsorship support. But attracting sponsorsh...

The complexity of the Ada language poses several problems for the builder of a debugger. We identify the Ada language constructs that cause these problems and propose solutions that can be incorporated in a debugger based on Pascal. Several of the solutions involve changes in the symbol table of the Ada compiler, others are based on the argument that having to obey the language rules is an obst...