In evaluating the performance of electronic marketplaces, research has focussed on the impact of factors such as IT, marketplace process design and competition. However, such research has neglected the impact of ownership upon electronic marketplace performance. This paper explores the issue of electronic marketplace ownership and contributes to the literature by revealing four distinct aspects...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

Background. It has been debated for a long time whether institutional investment managers have superior ability to pick stocks and to time the market. If so, the next question is whether the investment managers deliver their market insights to investors. As more and more investors delegate their portfolios to investment managers in the U.S. financial market, the questions above are critical to ...

Investment could be defined as the act of incurring immediate costs with the expectation of future returns. An investment project, as every asset has a value. Thus, for successfully investing in and managing these assets is crucial not only recognizing what the value is but also the sources of this value (Damodaran, 2002). Most investment decisions share three important characteristics in diffe...

More than a hundred years after its foundation, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report called To err is human: building a safer health system, stating that between 44 thousand and 98 thousand patients die every year in the United States due to potentially preventable medical errors(1). With the intention of improving quality of healthcare and, as a consequence, decreasing the rates ...