Value derived from IT in terms of its impact on performance is contingent on the presence of many other synergistic factors. This paper provides a comprehensive analytical survey of research literature about different complementary organizational assets that when coupled with IT can lead to higher firm performance. It attempts to provide a useful list of organizational variables that should be ...

Asset forfeiture laws allow the seizure of assets used in the commission of a crime. This paper examines the impact of such laws on deterrence by incorporating the possibility of asset forfeiture into the standard economic model of crime. When punishment is by a fine that can be optimally chosen, forfeiture is never optimal because of the deadweight loss it imposes in the capital market. When t...

We establish several new findings on the relation between capital flow in commodity markets and asset returns. Capital flowing into commodity markets, as measured by high open-interest growth, predicts high commodity returns and low bond returns. Open-interest growth is a more powerful and robust predictor of commodity returns than other known predictors such as the short rate, the yield spread...

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The changing business scenario in the logistics service market is affecting the development of relationships with customers and the continuous adaptation of service offering. In this context, knowledge management and intellectual capital are potentially successful assets for developing and improving competitive capabilities of logistics service companies. In order to supply more complex and kno...

This paper deals with a capital to risk asset ratio chance-constrained optimization model in the presence of loans, treasury bill, fixed assets and non-interest earning assets. To model the dynamics of loans, we introduce a modified CreditMetrics approach. This leads to development of a deterministic convex counterpart of capital to risk asset ratio chance constraint. We pursue the scope of ana...

What is the difference between brand equity and customer equity? Does the distinction matter? Is there a difference between the firm’s brand asset and customer asset? What are the implications of taking a brand perspective versus a customer perspective when designing and implementing marketing programs? The objective of this article is to examine these two perspectives in depth so that research...

We derive a general formula for the futures price process without the restriction that the assets used in the future margin account are continuous and of finite variation. To do so, we model tradeable securities with dividends which are not necessarily cash dividends at fixed times or continuously paid dividends. A future contract can then be modelled as an asset which pays dividends but has ze...

Information Security (InfoSec) research is far reaching and includes many approaches to deal with protecting and mitigating threats to the information assets and technical resources available within computer based systems. Although a predominant weakness in properly securing information assets is the individual user within an organization, much of the focus of extant security research is on tec...

Results from two-stage (cross-sectional) asset pricing tests vary with first-stage design choices and the test assets employed. First, I argue that time-varying loadings have higher construct validity as explanatory variables for the current expected return in that they do not contain future information and more accurately describe the timevarying risk of the firm. Second, I introduce randomly ...