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Along with the development of split-share reform and capital market, the trend of equity decentralization in listed companies is becoming more and more obvious. Professional managers' betrayal of large shareholders frequently occurs, which leads to the competing for corporate control between executives and shareholders. This paper studies on the corporate control from the perspective of competing...
Multiplex networks have been used to describe multilevel system by the way of combining several layers of sub-networks with one layer representing one sub-level system. For this new network framework, research efforts have been paid on the study of its topological and dynamical properties. However, in these studies the network structures are mostly simple or specific. To systemically study multiplex...
With the dramatic competition in the Information Technology (IT) industry, if the IT business wants to obtain a more stable marketplace and maintain a constant source of profits. How to maintain long-term and relatively stable trading relations with customers need to be considered. Further more, they should also encourage customers to generate repurchase intention and conduct buying behaviors. This...
There is growing interest in multiplex networks where individual nodes take part in several layers of networks simultaneously. From transportation networks to complex infrastructures, and to social and communication networks, a large variety of systems can be described in terms of multiplexes formed by a set of nodes interacting through different layers of networks, for example, in social networks...
Companies and individuals are becoming more dependant on technology, automated processes, the Internet of Things (IoT) and daily use of internet, mobile devices, and other tools that the technological revolution has created. But against the back-drop of rapid technological progress, cyber-threats have become a serious challenge that require immediate, continuous action. As cyber-crime poses an ever-present...
In the macroeconomic field, the investment in the human capital significantly relates to the output of the national economy. But as to the economic subject of the microcosmic market, what is the relationship between the human capital investment and the enterprise performance? Which contributes more to the performance of enterprises between the human capital and the material capital? This paper aims...
The operation of insurance companies accumulates several risks that should be managed. One of the risk management and containment types is reinsurance. Risks related to reinsurance are the following: fluctuation risk, risk of errors, risk of change, risk of prediction and assessment, subjective risk, and premium delay risk. Reinsurance as the limiting type of fluctuation risk is a transaction, under...
The overall objective of this study is to create a benchmark model for setting district heating (DH) tariffs. The analysis covered the group of 12 largest DH companies in Latvia, and correlation analysis included the parameters characterizing the DH systems such as influence of cogeneration (CHP), fuel mix, utilisation of installed generation capacity, network heat load density, components of tariffs...
The electric power distribution is considered as a monopoly public service, in which there cannot be direct competition, so it must be submitted to price and service quality regulation.
In financial market, the return of insider traders generally decreases with the increasing of informed trader number. But they have incentive to leak information to uninformed traders for higher return. We study the incentives to voluntarily leak information with imperfect competitive rational expectations. Our study shows that the return of insider traders is negatively corrected with the precision...
Abstract-Reasonable assurance of the reliability of financial report is one of the main objectives of internal control. Thus, high-quality internal control should help to improve the quality of corporate's financial report theoretically. In this paper, we examine the effect of internal control on earnings management, which was measured by real activity earnings management. Besides, we further test...
According to the complexity and variety of the problem and the high volume of data, Big Data is used to data analysis of variables related to the energetic consumption, in the copper production processes in the biggest copper state company of Chile, Codelco Division Chuquicamata, highlighting the problems that are still non treated in the great mining, such as energetic consumption. The study demonstrates...
Software testing is designed in various company hierarchy, such as end product/service providers and subcontractors. An end product/service providers generally has a severe responsibility for their software quality, while a subcontractor has a limited responsibility. There can be a hypothesis that there is differences in software quality between service providers and subcontractors. To examine the...
The diversity of components in electricity distribution grids makes it impossible, or at least very expensive, to deploy monitoring and fault diagnostics to every individual element. Therefore, power distribution companies are looking for cheap and reliable approaches that can help them to estimate the condition of their assets and to predict the when and where the faults may occur. In this paper...
This paper proposes to utilize a search engine as a social sensor whichis to be used for predicting market shares. More specifically, thispaper studies a task of comparing rates of concerns of those who searchfor Web pages among several companies which supply products, given aspecific products domain. In this paper, we measure concerns of thosewho search for Web pages through search engine suggests...
APT attack has caused chaos in society since 2006. Especially, the vulnerability of the infrastructure is exposed to the outside a lot due to the development of the IT infrastructure in Korea. In addition, APT attacks targeting companies' major confidential information are increasing every year. APT attack causes negative publicity for the company and financial damage. APT is completely different...
In this paper, the hierarchical chart for open-end fund performance evaluation is obtained by using the analytic hierarchy process. Furthermore, by utilizing the fuzzy and grey comprehensive evaluation methods, a scoring model for the evaluation of open-end funds is established. A 3a method-based comparison model is then constructed. Finally, an empirical study is conducted by using section data for...
Software effort estimation is vital but challenging activity during software development. In many small or medium-sized companies, such challenges are stemmed from historical data shortage. The problem can be solved by leveraging cross-company data for effort estimation. While in practice, cross-company effort estimation may not be easy to take because the cross-company data for effort estimation...
Insurance data processing system used by PT. Asuransi Takaful Umum is a system Care Tech. Care Tech System is a system designed for general data processing such as vehicle insurance, fire, property, and others with a web-based base that can be accessed online. During implemented since October 2013, Care Tech system has not been evaluated in terms of user acceptance. The purpose of this study was to...
Rankings and tournaments are often used to incentivize task completion and participation in online innovation and design contests and prediction markets. One of the main challenges for platform operators is to encourage high quality contributions and effort. In this study we illustrate that in such tournaments, the participants' ranks interfere with risk taking behavior. We present an online experiment...
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