The problem of effective anti-crisis management is crucial importance for ensuring the overall level development Ukraine, surmounting financial and economic crisis, as well creating an appropriate national security. In today's world with its unstable economic, political legal dimension entity exposed to external environment. impact crisis in world, including has led fact that most companies are...

We have entered a new world of retirement income security in America, with older individuals more exposed to market risk and more vulnerable to financial insecurity than prior generations. This reflects an evolution that has altered the historical vision of a financially secure retirement supported by Social Security, a defined-benefit pension plan, and individual savings. Today, 2 of these 3 r...

Labor-force participation among Mexican males in their early retirement years (60 to 64 years of age) has decreased in recent decades, from 94.6 percent in 1960 to 65.2 percent in 2010. Similar trends are evident elsewhere in Latin America, and have occurred in the developed world. Such trends pose challenges to financial sustainability of social security systems as working-age populations decr...

Our study is focused on the financial impact of NSA-security and privacy breach events announced in the news media between June 2013 and March 2014. While prior research has provided empirical evidence on the stock market reaction of security and privacy breaches such as confidentiality, integrity and availability breaches, there is scarce research on the financial impact of NSA-related securit...

As smart phones have become widely adopted, they have brought about changes in individual lifestyles, as well as significant changes in the industry. As the mobile technology of smart phones has become associated with all areas of industry, it is not only accelerating innovation in other industries such as shopping, healthcare service, education, and finance, but is also creating new markets an...

This paper investigates how the characteristics of information security incidents and disclosures in financial reports affect the valuation of a firm. Building on theories of disclosures in the accounting literature, we investigate investor reaction to disclosures through both quantitative and qualitative analyses. A cross-sectional analysis is first performed to examine the effect of the numbe...

How to feed the world without loosing what is left of biodiversity? Two answers for this question are found in the literature. On the one hand, the “Land Sparing” paradigm suggests that increasing yield by means of intensive agricultural systems would fulfill the needs of human population and save natural landscapes. On the other hand, “Biodiversity Friendly Farming” argues that agricultural in...

In the past, the majority of the computer security officers had difficulty in convincing management to allocate financial resources for IT security. However, with the emergence of electronic commerce and varied legislation, organisations appear to have understood the necessity for computer security, especially data security. Currently, in most organisations, security officers focus on IT securi...