The architecture of a process agent is a three-layer BDI, hybrid, multi-agent architecture. These process agents are intended to deal with corporate cultural, or political, sensitivities as well as with corporate rules. These agents adapt their behaviour on the basis of the likelihood of plan success, and on estimates of the time, cost and value of choosing a plan.

This paper focuses on how language resources (LR) for translation (hence LR4Trans) feature, and should ideally feature, within a corporate workflow of multilingual content development. The envisaged scenario will be that of a content management system that acknowledges the value of LR4Trans in the organisation as a key component and corporate knowledge resource.

This chapter proposes and illustrates a framework that the authors call the value life cycle for e-commerce systems. Based on recent research results that relate to technology investments in the corporate travel industry and related theoretical and empirical perspectives, the authors lay out the corporate travel ecommerce system solutions value life cycle. The perspective involves estimating th...

TECHNICAL APPENDIX FOR MEASURING THE BURDEN OF THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX UNDER IMPERFECT COMPETITION APPENDIX A: THEORY In this section we first summarize the Davidson and Martin (1985) (DM) model of the incidence of the corporate income tax under imperfect competition and then derive a comparative static result that describes how the degree of imperfect competition affects the incidence of the ...

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained much attention and been currently practiced by many companies. This study examined the role CSR disclosure as a signal on liquidity in creating value for firms. We effects moderation using subgroup analysis sample 77 manufacturing sector firm that listed IDX with three years data observations. By Chow test, results show is related ...

Abstract This study examines the impact of targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) activities on firm value and how this relationship is influenced by corporate governance factors using data from Chinese listed firms 2016 to 2019. The results under fixed effect estimation with robust standard errors show that positively affected both TPA activities, integration structure social responsibility perfor...

The shareholder value and the customer lifetime value approach are conceptually and methodically analogous. Both concepts calculate the value of a particular decision unit by discounting the forecasted net cash flows by the risk-adjusted cost of capital. However, virtually no scholarly attention has been devoted to the question if any of the components of the shareholder value could be determin...

Do media play any role in corporate governance? In this paper we argue that media pressure corporate managers and directors to behave in ways that are “socially acceptable”. Sometimes this coincides with shareholders’ value maximization, others not. We provide both anecdotal and systematic evidence that media affect companies’ policy toward the environment and the amount of corporate resources ...