January 28, 2012
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Worries about political risk
Earlier, developed markets were completely “safe”, but they are now subject to worrying protectionist pressures, rues Premila Nazareth Satyanand in a chapter titled How BRIC MNEs deal with inte...
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January 28, 2012
FOI and FDI
Can the freedom of information (FOI) increase foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries? This is the question that Daniel Berliner of University of Washington explores in The impa...
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January 27, 2012
Potential of virtual volunteering
‘Kaho, Karo, ya Karwao,’ or ‘Say, Do, or Get it Done,’ reads the tagline of http://karmayog.org, “a resource that enables you to ‘Improve Your World’ by connecting you with like-minded people and...
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January 26, 2012
Aiming big is the starting point
One day, Azim Jamal was coaching his son, Tawfiq, in one of soccer drills that required the ball to be passed to the team-mate at head level. “Each time I made him do this, he would pass the ball...
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January 23, 2012
Dangers of the inexorable internetworking
The Internet can make our existences better only if we learn how to accommodate it, says William H. Davidow in Overconnect...
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January 22, 2012
It pays to do accounting research
Compensation of accounting faculty is positively related to the quantity and quality of research output, as well as the reputation of the school from which the individual graduated and at...
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January 21, 2012
When do shareholder rights matter more?
Firms in which the shareholder finds it easier to forecast the effect of a particular management action on the future value of the firm benefit much more from such shareholder rights than...
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January 21, 2012
Peak of life cycle wealth
Who is wealthy? This is the question that Stefan Hochguertel of the VU University Amsterdam, and Henry Ohlsson of the Uppsala University explore in Who is at the top? Wealth mobility over the l...
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January 21, 2012
When do shareholder rights matter more?
Firms in which the shareholder finds it easier to forecast the effect of a particular management action on the future value of the firm benefit much more from such shareholder rights than do their...
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January 20, 2012
Disaster recovery management, going forward
Disaster recovery as a service makes it very easy for organisations to adopt and be recovery-ready, says Lakshman Narayanaswamy, Co-founder and VP, Products, Sanovi Technologies, Bangalore (http:/...
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