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This paper investigates the production and the development of innovation in relation to its geography for Greece relying on the theoretical and empirical argument that economic activity concentrates geographically because of scale and proximity effects and that innovation is an important and motivating factor for…

Undertake in a vision of social ethics, implies that the company must behave like a responsible citizen. For this propose, the company is now responsible for negative effects of its activities. That mean, the company must actively contribute to minimizing the risks by engaging the…

The challenge of being the agent of change and main actor in supporting the environmentally sustainable development has put higher-education institutions (HEIs) in its strategic position to inspire and lead its stakeholders in implementing the environment-oriented economic and social growth. The role of higher-education institutions…

This study aimed at extending the literature of the effect of performance appraisal on productivity and employees by connecting the employees’ perception on fair performance appraisal and organizational justice-considered practices to job satisfaction and work performance. Prior studies did not explore much this relation due…

This paper analyzes the incentive problems of the disclosure of a so-called valuation allowance of deferred taxes. Since the disclosure of a relatively high valuation allowance indicates a negative profit development, misguided incentives of a progressive capitalization of deferred taxes from loss carryforwards would have…

Frequent accounting frauds, research and development cost cuts, agency problem — these factors tend to lead to short-term gains, while providing eroded long-term performance to equity investors. The present study looks into the conflict between the short-term and long-term return to understand which factors can…

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of…

The limited selectivity of therapeutic agents for tumor cells and their inability to act on poorly vascularized areas of tumors, remain among the primary limitations to cancer therapy. Several studies reported that Salmonella typhimurium VNP20009 (VNP) preferentially targets hypoxic/anoxic cores of solid tumors. Here the…

Although OLAP technology seemed to be mature enough so that little real or disruptive changes encountered in the last decade. Still the emergence and the wide spreading of some technologies like Web Services, Cloud Computing and Big Data we believe that will have the potential…

In the last 20 years, the use of IT by organizations has increased and ITG discipline is today a major concern. ITG has been recognized as a CIO top-10 issue for more than five years and has risen in priority between 2007 and 2009. Best…