AIM The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome in a specific group of people. PATIENTS AND METHODS The ATP III criteria were used to identify the metabolic syndrome in a group of 1,410 corporate executives belonging to a specialist health and fitness company in South Africa. RESULTS Using three criteria as specified by the ATP III panel, 31% of this group ...

More than 21,000 practicing dietitians are working in the various fields of institutional foodservice settings in Korea. For the effective placement and practice of dietitians in their special areas, proper enactment and implementation of required legislations shall be imperative. Following legislations are few of those: regulations for dietitians enacted in 1963 in accordance with decree of th...

This study examines how the risk-taking incentive of top executives drives the strategic risk-taking in corporate IT implementation. We use the risk incentive provided in executive compensation to capture top executives’ risk-taking incentive, and develop measures of aggressive IT implementation to capture strategic risk-taking in IT implementation. Our analysis provides empirical evidence that...

This research paper discusses the threats and legal protection of Cyber Blackmail in both Egyptian American Legislations. The growth Internet has led to overlap between blackmail Cybercrime where is increasing, light growing number social media users, acceleration witnessed various conservation programs. With phenomenon widely increasing society recent times, researcher, after comparing legisla...

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives’ behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers etc. We analyse the nature of (implicit) retention contracts boards use to discipline and screen execut...

Open source software (OSS) has reshaped and remodeled various layers of the organizational ecosystem, becoming an important strategic asset for enterprises. Still, many enterprises are reluctant to adopt OSS. Knowledge about technological risks and their importance for IT executives is still under researched. We aim to identify the technological risks and their importance for OSS adoption durin...

The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance continues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salaries enjoyed by senior executives in corporations in the US are often contrasted with the relatively low pay received by executives in Europe and Asia. Empirical research on executive pay has mainly concentrated on the pay-performance relat...