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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou…
Galen Spencer Hull
This paper examines the remarkable growth of the foreign-born population in Middle Tennessee over the past couple of decades and the significant role that immigrant entrepreneurs are playing in the economic development of the region. The largest segment of th…
Eva CONRAUD-KOELLNER, Luis Arturo RIVAS-TOVAR
Studies of green behavior have awakened a growing interest, since the accelerated environmental degradation is partly attributed to a lack of such behavior. However it is not an easy task to modify consumer habits and influence the behavior of individuals. Th…
Jana KITZMANN, Dirk SCHIERECK
This paper analyzes whether secondary buyouts of private equity (PE) investors in general create value and therefore are a suitable alternative to exit strategies like trade sales and IPOs. Theoretically, two conflicting approaches might explain the use of se…
Nobuyoshi YAMORI
The increased diversification of fund rising methods among small and medium-sized businesses has been a major policy challenge in recent years, and private financial institutions are proactively striving to disseminate new financial technologies. However, thi…
K. P. ANAGNOSTOPOULOS, G. MAMANIS
We propose a computational procedure to find the efficient frontier for the standard Markowitz mean-variance model with discrete variables. The integer constraints limit on the one hand the portfolio to contain a predetermined number of assets and, on the oth…
Andrew J. BUCK, Erwin A. BLACKSTONE, Simon HAKIM
Using the results of a unique telephone survey the frequency of consumer flights from airports in a multi-airport region are modeled using a multivariate Poisson framework, the parameters of which were estimated using a latent variable application of the expe…
José CAETANO, António CALEIRO
The risk perceived by investors is crucial in the decision to invest, in particular when it concerns a foreign country. The risk associated to any (foreign) investment is a multi-faceted element given that it reflects many aspects that are relevant to (foreig…
Félix-Fernando Munoz, María-Isabel ENCINAR, Carolina CANIBANO
Within evolutionary economics, entrepreneurship is seen as the main force of economic change, as the agency of self-transformation within restless capitalist economic systems. Therefore, a truly evolutionary perspective on economic policy-making must consider…
Michael REISS
In coping with the challenges of revolutionary or evolutionary change processes, change managers do not rely on single tools but on toolboxes containing several domains of tools. The impact of toolboxes on change performance depends both on the complementary…
Yanmei HE
The principle of equitable and reasonable utilization is the fundamental one of International Water Law, which is generally established by international water treaties and soft law documents. It is better performed in the practice of the utilization of transb…
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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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