This study examines the influence of investment bank’s reputation and political connection on the IPO qualification of Chinese firms. The results show that firms which are sponsored by prestigious investment banks are more likely to pass the regular screening process. Also, the investment bank’s political connections have no significant impact on the IPO qualification. Furthermore, we compared ...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland K. Grzybowska, Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan, Poland The article presents notions connected with resource structure of useful knowledge packages in metallurgical enterprise. Dependence between building competence of employees and using kno...

INA S MUCH as none of the manifold attempts to define “a rare book” has yet obtained such unanimity of approval as to be reckoned entirely satisfactory or final, investigation into this question still remains fair game, is still in the public domain. The phrase-“a rare book”-can mean any one of three different things depending on the sense in which it is used. Two of these meaningsthose used in...

Reified logics have been a major subject of interest in the knowledge representation community for well over twenty years, since over the years, the need to quantify and reason about propositional entities such as events and states among other temporal entities has grown. Galton had made it clear that one may either refer to types or tokens (instances) of such entities in the ontology. A clear ...

The rise in significance of cyber security has led to an increase in the range of interesting career paths that can be followed in this area. Inevitably there has also been an explosion in the diversity of available cyber security education, qualifications and training, most of which is targeted at those seeking to engage with this promising job market. In this article, some guidelines are prov...