Advances in Applied Business Research: The L.A.B.S. Initiative

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Series: Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives
BISAC: BUS108000

This book compiles a series of academic contributions based on the theme of applied business. Applied business research is interpreted in a broad sense, comprising all the studies that in some way allow us to better understand how corporations are managed, how organizational data systems are employed to the best use of firms, how financial decisions impact the success of businesses, and how the macro environment influences the performance of individual organizations.

The book is divided into five parts. Part I concentrates on the mechanisms through which firms collect, process and use information. Part II is dedicated to corporate finance, to the financial decisions of firms and to the analysis of stock market regularities. Financial issues continue to be the topic of discussion in Part III, though in a different perspective; here, it is more focused on the role of financial institutions and on the architecture of financial systems. Part IV approaches the economic and business environment faced by the organizations, exploring essentially two themes: the spatial distribution of innovation and the economic value of the language. Finally, in Part V, attention is placed on the academy and, particularly, on the involvement of students in business-related experiments. This book was prepared as an initiative of the Lisbon Accounting and Business School (ISCAL), a Portuguese higher education public institution highly committed to contributing to the advancement of research in the field of applied business. (Imprint: Nova)

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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.

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