SMEs that are adopting Internet technologies and e-business solutions often require business support services. This paper summarizes the results of a 2004 survey of 280 New Brunswick SMEs, describes patterns of demand for support services, and tests significance of six factors that are postulated to affect demand for services (firm size, growth orientation, technological capability, solutions t...

The amount of data collected and used by companies has grown rapidly in size over the last decade. Business leaders are now using Business Intelligence (BI) systems to make effective business decisions against large amounts of data. The growth in the size of data has been a major challenge for Database Administrators (DBAs). The increase in the number and size of databases at the speed they hav...

The capital structure and regulation of financial intermediary firms are important topics for regulators and academic researchers. In general, theory predicts that firms choose their capital structures by balancing the benefits of debt against its costs. The purpose of this paper is to analyze capital structure as a function of bank's specific variable factors. It examines the relationship ...

business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (egsee) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. more than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various egsee di...

This paper analyses the determinants of the size of the informal economy using crosscountry regressions. Two sets of global data using indirect estimation techniques and the perception of business leaders for 109 countries as well as a regional set for Latin America based on direct data are used to estimate the size of the informal economies. Indirect estimation techniques arrive at higher esti...