This study presents an integrated investigation into the factors affecting executive ownership, the market value of the finn, and executive compensation by explicitly incorporating the simultaneity of the process determining these variables into the empirical estimation, Overall, the results of the study support the notion that a f inn's market value, executive stock ownership, and executive co...

Integrated Personal Mobility Architecture (IPMoA) is a personal mobility framework that supports personal mobility in both the areas of personal communications and personalising operational environments [11]. In this paper, we describe in detail one aspect of IPMoA that is unique, namely the use of mobile agents to assist users in personal communications. In particular, we describe the function...

The operating environment for banking in Austria changed substantially during 1990-1997. The changes during the period can be seen as a gradual adjustment towards adherence to European banking standards, which became a legal requirement on Austria’s entry, in 1995, into the European Union. In this paper, we investigate the relative performance of Austrian banks during this period and thereby te...

It is investigated that nearly 86% containers were transferred by roads connection transport at Shenzhen port with the high-speed developing steps of Chinese economy. For a long time, Shenzhen container-trailer enterprises have provided essential and efficient logistics service for every dock. However, problems as operated by many bodies, small scale, decentralized business and poor competitive...

A survey of five-day wards serving medical and surgical specialties indicated that 30 such units were operating in England in 1979. Six mixed surgical specialty, eight mixed specialty (medicine and surgery), four medical investigation, and 12 single specialty wards had opened since 1969. There was a varied, and often low, use of these wards. Nurse-staffing levels and allocation of operating the...