Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Editors
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Introduction to Advances in Applied Business Research: the L.A.B.S. Initiative
Orlando Gomes, Hélder Fanha Martins (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, and Business Research Unit – Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal)
Part I. On the Management of Business Information and Business Models
Chapter 2. Computing the Economic Value of Electronic Document Management Systems through Zachman’s Framework
Jorge Paulo Sequeira, Ana Paula Samarão (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Department of Information Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal)
Chapter 3. Analyzing Open Source Software Business Model Viability
João Carlos do Rosário (School of Communication and Media Studies – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Department of Advertising and Marketing, Lisbon, Portugal)
Part II. Stock Markets and Corporate Finance
Chapter 4. Different Approaches to Stock Market Linkages: Evidence from Cee-3 Countries
Michaela Chocholatá (University of Economics in Bratislava, Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, Dolnozemská, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Chapter 5. Evaluating Companies: Investing for the Long Run
Raúl D. Navas, Sónia R. Bentes, Ana M. Gama (University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 6. Conservatism, Secrecy and the SMEs’ Financing Options
Fábio Albuquerque, Maria do Rosário Justino, J. Texeira Quirós (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, and others)
Part III. Credit, Banking and the Financial System
Chapter 7. Derivative-based Treatment of Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk for Economic Capital Management
Mariya Gubareva (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Lisbon, Portugal)
Chapter 8. Evolution of the Financial Sector – Three Different Stages: Repression, Development and Financialisation
Ricardo Barradas (Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and Dinâmia’CET-IUL, Higher School of Communication and Media Studies – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, & Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Lisbon, Portugal)
Part IV. Broadening the Horizon: Issues on the Economic Environment
Chapter 9. Spatial Pattern of Innovative Activity in the EU Regions: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometric Approach
Andrea Furková (University of Economics in Bratislava, Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Chapter 10. The Economic Value of Language
Maria João Ferro, Rute Costa (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute (ISCAL-IPL) and NOVA CLUNL, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Part V. Back to the Class: Learning Experiences and Learning Services
Chapter 11. Students as Customers: Service Process Development for Improved Student’s Customer Experience at BusinessLab of Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Asko Mononen, Mika Kortelainen, Anni Hellgrén (Laurea University of Applied Sciences, BusinessLab, Lohja, Finland)
Chapter 12. A Classroom Game on Productivity Growth and International Trade
Orlando Gomes (Lisbon Accounting and Business School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute & Business Research Unit – Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal)
Index
This book is intended to be a fundamental tool for students and teachers in the fields of applied business. Management, finance and accounting practitioners are also targeted audiences.