The corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its operations through different types  of  consolidation  strategies  like  mergers  and  acquisitions  in  order  to  face challenges  posed  by  the  new  pattern  of  globalization,  which  has  led  to  the  greater integration of national and international markets.. The intensity of cross-border operations recorded an unprecedented ...

In this study, we address the question of how the degree of business model innovation affects the survival of new firms. We present a newly constructed data set of 129 new firms that launched electronic trading platforms in the US bond market between 1995 and 2004 following the advent of Internet technology. We analyze the founding and survival of these new firms during the period of our study....

Predicting financially false statements to detect frauds in companies has an increasing trend in recent studies. The manipulations in financial statements can be discovered by auditors when related financial records and indicators are analyzed in depth together with the experience of auditors in order to create knowledge to develop a decision support system to classify firms. Auditors may annot...

Although the implementation of targeted energy subsidies plan has been considered by policymakers since the First 5-year Economic, Social and Cultural Development Plan in Iran, it is only partially implemented in 2010. This issue has great importance for industry sector that has benefited from subsidized energy prices. This research attempts to investigate the possible impact of implementing Su...

the corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its operations through different types  of  consolidation  strategies  like  mergers  and  acquisitions  in  order  to  face challenges  posed  by  the  new  pattern  of  globalization,  which  has  led  to  the  greater integration of national and international markets.. the intensity of cross-border operations recorded an unprecedented ...