• Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Essays in financial economics : quality, value, board composition, and executive compensation 

      Georgiou, Ifigenia (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Διοίκησης / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Economics and Management, 2010-08)
      Στο Δοκίμιο Ι δείχνω πως ο αριθμός των διοικητικών συμβούλων με ειδικές γνώσεις σχετικά με το κύριο αντικείμενο των επιχειρηματικών δραστηριοτήτων μιας εταιρείας συνδέεται θετικά με την πιθανότητα να κερδίσει η εταιρεία ...
    • Article  

      Intermediaries as quality assessors: Tour operators in the travel industry 

      Clerides, Sofronis; Nearchou, Paris; Pashardes, Panos (2008)
      Intermediaries often arise in order to facilitate trade in markets characterized by asymmetric information. In the travel industry, policymakers have tried to address information asymmetries by providing hotel ratings. We ...
    • Article  

      Perceptions Matter 

      Kassinis, George I.; Panayiotou, Alexia (2006)
      We examine the role of chief executive officers (CEOs) in the context of firm environment-related decisions and argue that CEO perceptions of the importance of stakeholders in environmental decision-making are related to ...
    • Article  

      A pragmatic and pervasive methodology to web service discovery 

      Tamani, E.; Evripidou, Paraskevas (2006)
      Service-Oriented computing can be characterized as the motivating force for interoperable web applications. Businesses that embark on service-oriented technology are inclined to an effective interoperation with other ...
    • Article  

      The role of foreign customer influences in building relationships with US exporting SMEs 

      Leonidou, Leonidas C.; Katsikeas, Constantine S. (2003)
      Despite the growing importance of relationship management in both academic and practitioner circles, little attention has been focused on the dynamics of international business relationships. This article examines the ...
    • Conference Object  

      Scalable and dynamic global power management for multicore chips 

      Otoom, M.; Trancoso, Pedro; Almasaeid, H.; Alzubaidi, M. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
      The design for continuous computer performance is increasingly becoming limited by the exponential increase in the power consumption. In order to improve the energy efficiency of multicore chips, we propose a novel global ...
    • Article  

      Valuing Infrastructure Investment: an option games approach 

      Smit, Han T. J.; Trigeorgis, Lenos (2009)
      The article discusses infrastructure investment for business enterprises, describing and analyzing an infrastructure development methodology called option games. The option games methodology integrates real options valuation ...