May 2018

Forecasting and preventing bankruptcy: A conceptual review

The recent global financial crisis has caused the failure of many firms in several countries, renewing the interest of the literature towards forecasting models for default risk. Although these models have been developed since the 1960s, studies have been published in increased numbers during the last decades, proposing new approaches or comparing different existing models to understand which of them have the best...

Author(s): Marco Bisogno, Marialuisa Restaino and Alfonso Di Carlo  

May 2018

The research of innovation efficiency of government’s fund and enterprises’ R&D investment in China

In this paper, the panel data of China from 2003 to 2012 and stochastic frontier and threshold regression models were used to analyze the impact of government’s fund and enterprises’ research and development (R&D) investment on China’s innovation efficiency and the optimal intensity of different R&D investment and their interval analysis. This research indicates that in the process of...

Author(s): Xiaobing Liu, Manhong Liu and Rong Shi  

May 2018

Effects of employees’ commitment on organizational performance at Arjo Didessa Sugar Factory

Presently, no organization can perform at peak levels unless each employee is committed to the organizations objectives. Hence, it is important to understand the concept of commitment and its feasible outcome. The employees in sugar industry play decisive role in transferring the theory to practical in order to enhance development of industry.  The objective of this study was to determine the effects of employee...

Author(s): Dinku Gilo Tolera