Using data from a large European financial services firm which engaged in an entrepreneurial initiative to enhance its competitiveness, this paper explores the strategic role of middle managers in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and its link to multiple dimensions of performance. The findings indicate that middle managers’ role can be decomposed along four reliable and stable dimensio...

The rapid development of E-commerce has brought new opportunities for the enterprises, and the new information technology also affects the financial management mode of enterprises. In this paper, the authors research on the E-business model and financial management based on cloud computing. Because e-commerce has some new characteristics different from traditional business, the overall goal of ...

We examine how non-competitiveness in financial markets affects the choice of asset portfolios and the determination of equilibrium prices. We apply a model of economic equilibrium, based on [12], in which individual traders recognize and estimate the impact of their trades on financial prices, and in which these effects are determined endogenously as part of the equilibrium concept. For the ca...

This study aims to assess the effect of financial inclusion and competitiveness on banks’ stability, considering moderating role regulation. To do so, we compare effects these variables in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) Latin American Caribbean (LAC) countries. Our results suggest that enhances bank stability SSA LAC countries, regulation contributes increasing while find no statistical significance...

Abstract: The implementation of government legislation, social responsibility, environmental concerns regarding the reduction of waste, hazardous material and other consumer residuals have made the competition between the firms stricter than ever and nowadays firms that want to survive need a more productive and innovative approach toward the financial aspects of their businesses.his pape...

Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how detection of bribery impacts firm competitiveness. The data suggest that the most significant impact is on employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it was detected, and how the firm responded after detect...

This paper presents the insights gained from the use of data mining and multivariate statistical techniques to identify important factors associated with a country’s competitiveness and the development of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) models to predict it. In addition to stepwise regression and weighted non-linear programming techniques, intelligent learning techniques (artificial neur...