This Special Issue, taking five years to come to fruition, presents the latest research on strategic management in private and family businesses in Asia Pacific regions. Asia Pacific societies have a long history of private and family businesses. For example, a Chinese classic, Records of the Grand Historian (known by its Chinese name Shiji, which was written from 109 BC to 91 BC), includes a c...

Most electronic cash systems in the literature have been developed in the single bank model in which clients and merchants have accounts at the same bank. In the real world, electronic cash may be issued by a large group of banks, monitored by the Central Bank. Thus not only client anonymity but also bank anonymity should be considered to simulate anonymity of real money. Because anonymity coul...

The paper provides an updated and annotated list of Latin bilingual Latin-Greek papyri from the first century bc to early third ad – including very recently published still unpublished that refer lives businesses Roman citizens in Egypt. It also covers documents connected with army, is produced military officia be specifically used by soldiers (acknowledgments debt, receipts money etc.). They a...

Market research companies expect that low value products such as online music and videos will become an important source of revenues for merchants in the future (Leong 2003). These revenues will mostly add up from individual payments for such products rather than from subscriptions (Ulph Jennings 2003). Content spending reports of Online Publishers Association already show that subscriptions sl...

We surveyed 470 Amazon.com merchants regarding their experience, knowledge and perceptions of digitally-signed email. Some of these merchants (93) had been receiving digitally-signed VAT invoices from Amazon for more than a year. Respondents attitudes were measured as to the role of signed and/or sealed mail in e-commerce. Among our findings: 25.2% of merchants thought that receipts sent by onl...

The U.S. payment market has attracted increasing attention from technology firms and their investors seeking to capitalize on mobile and cloud technologies and the growing trend in consumer adoption of smartphones. Although consumers in the United States largely have not adopted mobile payments, merchants believe these technologies will address some current barriers to the use of mobile payment...

The Varsity Blues investigation uncovered a seamy side of university admissions. Multiple wealthy parents were indicted for securing their children’s admission to selective institutions through bribery. Despite the publicity indictments and guilty pleas received, public schadenfreude over sight celebrities being arrested, is most notable what it did not do: deploy federal government’s arsenal a...