Globalization has resulted in exponential growth for many successful enterprises both in financial and non-financial industries. In the majority of these, growth can be attributed to inorganic expansion through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Specifically, in the insurance industry M&A activity has been on the rise since the early 1990s — especially in the UK, continental Europe and North Amer...

Semantic technologies are claimed as a feasible solution to support many of the Financial Industry challenges, such as facing the constant regulatory changes across the countries. A first approach is to create international agreed ontologies for the financial business domain, and specifically in regulatory change management (RCM). In this scenario, to consider the financial business goals durin...

Increasingly, the dependability of vehicle based programmable systems is becoming a key feature in ensuring the safety of those in and around the vehicle. The goal of those responsible for the design and manufacture of such systems must be to control adequately the associated risks so that the potential of the technology may be exploited fully. The Motor Industry Software Reliability Associatio...

This paper tests for changes in firms' production and pricing decisions in four industries in which firms have sharply increased their financial leverage. The analysis of product price and quantity data show that industry product market decisions are associated with capital structure. In three industries, output is negatively associated with the average industry debt ratio. In the one industry ...

When measuring the importance of the energy sector in a country’s nonfinancial business economy total (Graph 1), and among the 21 Member States with data available, Slovakia was the most specialised – in terms of both value added and employment – with the industry representing 14.8 % and 3.4% respectively of its non-financial business economy. By contrast, in terms of value added, the least spe...

Predicting technological innovations in financial information systems (IS) and technology ecosystems has been challenging for technology forecasters and industry analysts due to their underlying complexity. Technology-based financial innovations over the past four decades, such as programmed trading in the 1980s, risk-adjusted return on capital-based financial risk management systems in the 199...

Background: The wind energy industry is an important part of the renewable energy industry. Helpful financial support plays an essential role in the process of its development. This study analyzes the financial support efficiency not only from the aspect of capital raise, but also from the aspect of the allocation of up-, middleand down-stream of the Chinese wind power industry chain (which inc...

The development of new orthopaedic products depends on a close cooperation between orthopaedic surgeons and the industry. However, in recent years a number of cases of financial collusion between the industry and parts of the professional orthopaedic environment in the US have been exposed. This has highlighted the question of the extent to which orthopaedic-related research and development may...

Cash management is concerned with optimizing the short-term funding requirements of a company. To this end, different optimization strategies have been proposed to minimize costs using daily cash flow forecasts as the main input to the models. However, the effect of the accuracy of such forecasts on cash management policies has not been studied. In this article, using two real data sets from th...