The Crisis and Emerging Markets: A Multidisciplinary Analysis

Peter Koveos

ISBN: 978-960-598-029-0, 390 pages

First published in 2015 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Volume Peter Koveos		i
Section 1: The View from Finance
1.	The Stock Market and the Global Financial Crisis Antonio de la Torre Gallegos and Edith Bellini	3
2.	The Impact of Synergies on Mergers & Acquisitions: Empirical Analysis on the Pharmaceutical Sector on the European Stock Exchanges: 2004-2010 Oana Resceanu	15
3.	Techniques for Estimating the Generative Multifactor Model of Returns on Equities: Comparative Study of the Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Independent Component Analysis and Neural Networks Principal Component Analysis Rogelio Ladrón de Guevara Cortés and Salvador Torra Porras	23
4.	Comparative Study of the underlying Multi-Factor Structure of Systematic Risk Estimated by Feature Extraction Techniques Rogelio Ladrón-de-Guevara Cortés and Salvador Torra Porras	55
5.	Financial Performance Analysis of Transportation & Storage Sector’s Firms Trading in Istanbul Stock Exchange by using TOPSIS Method Nuray Ergül, Veli Akel, Sezayi Dumanoğlu and Halil Alpaslan	73
6.	The Determining Factors of the Industries Capital Structure in Tehran Stock Exchange Ebrahim Abbasi and Mahmoud Reza Mostaghimi	87
7.	An Analysis of the Correlation between EVA® and MVA®: The Case of a NYSE Euronext Lisbon listed Company Teresa da Cunha Pinto and Carlos Machado-Santos	101
Section 2: Challenges in the World of Accounting
8.	Intellectual Property Rights: Their Development, Protection, and Orderly Transfer in the Twenty-First Century World (with Particular Emphasis on Emerging Nations) Thomas O'Connor and Clifford Koen	115
9.	Sowing the Seeds of Transfer Pricing Conflict Bülend Terzioglu and Adam Steen	123
10.	Does Outsourcing of Accounting Affect Management Accounting Practices in Small Firms? Helena Sjögrén, Kaisu Puumalainen and Pasi Syrjä	137
11.	Recognition of Goodwill Under IFRS 3 Lela Pumphrey, Cecilia Lambert, and Christopher Lambert	151
Section 3: Issues in Management
12.	The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Personal Mastery on Organizational Learning and Organizational Innovation Performance Jia-Sheng Lee and Tai-Kun Yang	163
13.	The Core Competence Concept: A Way to Gain Competitive Advantage for Organizations Yasemin Bal, Esin Can and Yonca Gurol	179
14.	Facing an Uncertain Future with the Strato-Operation Management Model John Chiu and Robert Paton	187
15.	Debutant Civil Servants Probation Period – The Influence on the Expectancy Element of Vroom’s Motivational Theory Leonina-Emilia Baciu, Maria Mortan and Vincentiu Veres	203
Section 4: Accounting, Economics and Finance
16.	Tax Measures taken to fight the Crisis – Developed Countries Overview, Concrete Measures in the Czech Republic Jiří Kostohryz	215
17.	The Financial and Public Policy of Greece as a Member of the Economic and Monetary Union Ioannis Kallianiotis	227
18.	Effects of Area Support Payments on the Economic Situation of Farms Sanita Klava	241
19.	The Latest “Planned” Financial Crisis, which Caused the First Depression of the 21^st Century was a Moral and Political Crisis Ioannis Kallianiotis	255
20.	The Impact of EU Structural Funds in Latvia and EU Member States Līga Jankova	309
Section 5: Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
21.	The Effects of Internal Corporate Governance on Firm Performance: Evidence from Thailand Phassawan Suntraruk	331
22.	Corporate Governance and Corporate Failure in the Context of Agency Theory Faizah Darus and Azlinda Mohamad	343
23.	Developing Financial Accounting System to Reflect Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabia Nizar Saleh Alshowaiman	359