Research has been done within the South African information technology (IT) industry over the last decade with regard to project management maturity (PMM) and the impact it has on delivering information systems (IS) projects successfully. The research was done to determine whether IS PMM per knowledge area has improved over the last decade. It investigates if there is a correlation between matu...

Risk is an inherent factor in the traveler's choice of destination. Tourism destinations differ in many aspects including their location, economic condition, cultural and political status and crime. Given such differences, the analysis of destination risk and its dimensions is of substantial interest. The current study explores the risk factors perceived about Iran as a tourism destination usin...

The purpose of this paper is to make a comparative analysis of modern gross payment systems, emphasizing on the implications of the availability of intraday liquidity and the different mechanisms used to provide this liquidity. The possibility of default and the risk of the intraday credit are first introduced to determine the implications of its existence on banks’ behaviour and on the probabi...

The paper presents a competing-risks approach for investigating the determinants of corporate financial distress. In particular a comparative analysis of three European markets France, Italy and Spain – is performed in order to find out the similarities and the differences in the determinants of distress. By using the AMADEUS dataset, two possible causes of exit from the market are considered: ...

Production coordination is a common phenomenon in supply chains. Unlike the existing literature, we examine the production coordination problem from the perspective of asymmetric information: how a manufacturer (leading firm) coordinates the relationships with its subsidiary firm(s) and, subsequently, how market returns influence the leading firm's expected utilities, agency cost and the subsid...