... Investment Blockchain Since the creation of programmable blockchains like Ethereum, their use for financial purposes has been one primary use case. The ability to handle a ledger of transactions, plus the programmability to allow anybody to create anything in a trusted manner, had opened new...

...Domenica Barile; Giustina Secundo; Candida Bussoli Purpose This study examines the Robo-Advisors (RA) based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new service that digitises and automates investment decisions in the financial and banking industries to provide low-cost and personalised financial advice...

...Florian Follert; Werner Gleißner Purpose From the buying club’s perspective, the transfer of a player can be interpreted as an investment from which the club expects uncertain future benefits. This paper aims to develop a decision-oriented approach for the valuation of football players that could...

...Wei Wang; Yuting Xu; Yenchun Jim Wu; Mark Goh Purpose Information distortion affects the perception of quality, which, in turn, influences investment decisions and determines the pledge results of fundraising. This study combines signalling theory with persuasion theory to empirically study...

... contribute to determining which capabilities and governmental policies should be primarily developed to promote the global strategies and international success of firms. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Globalization Export Investment International trade The economic development of regions comes...

... complicated IT investments. New methods suggested in the academic literature have been criticized as being too esoteric for practitioners. Presents the results of a case study and shows how many intangible benefits previously ignored can actually be quantified and incorporated in traditional NPV models...

..., the objective of this paper is to provide small firms’ managers with a decisional tool (derived from the Fuzzy Sets Theory) aimed at supporting the evaluation process and at selecting the most suitable investments within different competitive contexts. © MCB UP Limited 1998 The selection process...

...Enoch K. Beraho Reviews the economic development of Sub‐Saharan African countries and discusses investment potential and opportunities in the region. Concludes with recommendations to investors and the governments of the countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa. In assessing development and investment...

..., micro theories engage the organization as the level of analysis and consideration is given to both the foreign direct investment decision process and pattern pursued by firms in internationalization. Discusses the nature and emphasis of these theories in the form of a critique. © MCB UP Limited 1997...

...Ian Marsh Considers the significant shift of Australian business investment from Europe and the USA to the Asian region since 1992. Reveals that over 65 per cent of manufacturing, 90 per cent of infrastructure, and some 90 per cent of services investment, committed or under consideration...

..., the process by which an investment proposal is analysed, evaluated and approved, is often viewed as separate from those relating to other investments, as well as from the other procedures and systems of the firm. Develops a conceptual framework for organizing the whole capital budgeting process, starting from...

...F.M. Wilkes; J.M. Samuels; S.M. Greenfield Investment in manufacturing is important to sustained UK economic recovery, quality of life and national economic standing. Considers results from a survey of UK manufacturers on influences on capital investment, the appraisal methods used and the impact...

...Zeinab A. Karake Utilizes an objective measure of the levels of investment/performance in information technology (IT) and tests a number of hypothesized relationships between IT performance and company′s control,governance and managerial characteristics; this measure is called the relative...

...Paul Chapman A growing number of leading management consultants are highlighting from their work the link between investments in information technology and successful business performance. Whilst many senior executives have taken this message to heart and have invested heavily...

...K. Swann; W.D. O′Keefe This article is the second half of a series concerning advanced decisions. Central to the problem of AMT(advanced manufacturing technology) is that investment is uncertainty. Under consideration is a highly expensive innovation, often bringing unprecedented operational...

...K. Swann; W.D. O′Keefe This article is the first half of a series concerning advanced manufacturing technology (AMT)investment decisions. Individual problems with formalised techniques in this field are reduced by the frequency of their joint use in organisations. The article emphasises...