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Infrastructures, such as roads, railways, and water supply networks, require investment, upgrades and maintenance throughout their life-cycle. Often the funding of these through public budgets is considered insufficient. ...

Bribery as an unethical sales practice is institutionalized in developing countries causing serious challenges for the smooth operations of multinational companies (MNCs). Therefore, their control is the primary concern ...

Many firms experience abrupt or continuous changes in their business environment.Searching for opportunities to renew its operations can be critical to a firm’s successful performance in such circumstances. The constructs ...

This thesis studies the additional value introduced by different machine learning methods to economic forecasting. Flexible machine learning methods can discover various complex relationships in data and are well-suited ...

The collection of essays included herein studies different forms of reciprocal behavior, voluntary contributions towards a public project, and price setting and trading behavior in monopolistic asset markets. In paper ...

An increasing amount of technology is no longer developed in-house. Instead, we are in a new age where technology is developed by a networked community of individuals and organizations, who base their relations to each ...

Tighter internal supply chain integration has been posited to lead to several operational and performance benefits. In addition, it has also been seen to aid the elicitation of external integration. However, despite the ...

This study is motivated by the question how resource scarce innovative entrepreneurial companies seek and leverage global resources. This study takes a resource-seeking perspective a step ...

Evolutionary psychology is becoming a popular approach in consumer research. Evolutionary-based consumer research has, however, typically been undertaken from the managerial rather than from the consumer perspective. The ...

This thesis consists of four published empirical studies on the effect of three board monitoring committees (namely: audit, remuneration and nomination committees) and board diversity on the performance of UK financial ...