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EDITOR
Demetri Kantarelis
REVIEWERS
(In
Alphabetical Order)
Allen, David
Andabaka, Ana
Ariwa, Ezendu
Athanassopoulos, A.
Aurelio, Jeanne M.
Baker, Gary
Bell, Peter F.
Bertaux, Nancy
Berg, Nathan
Binner, Jane M.
Bitzenis, Aristidis
Borrmann, Jorg
Bradley, Lisa
Brathwaite, T.W.
Bruce, Kyle
Cailleau, Tierry
Cantarella, Anthony
Cebula, Richard J.
Cenan, Danijela
Chennareddy, V.
Chisholm, Darlene C.
Ciancanelli, Penelope
Clevenger, Tom
Coetzee, Karina
Currie, Carolyn V.
Dimelis, Sophia
Drew, Michael E.
Droussiotis, Annabel
Efstathiades, Andreas
Engelen, Peter-Jan
Esfidani, M.R.
Faltholm, Ylva
Faux, Jeffrey
Fent, Thomas
Finlay, Donald
Floyd, David
Gabberty, James W.
Garnett, Andrea
Gentzoglanis, A.
Georgopoulos,
A.
Groes, Nils
Hartley, Robert
Hasanagas, Nikolaos
Houghton, Erne
Hruska, Domagoj
Italia, Maria
Jarratt, Denise
Kallianiotis, Ioannis
Kassim, N. Mohd
Kesar, Oliver
Kiuila, Olga
Kolakovic, Marko
Kuenzel, Sven
Kurihara,Yutaka
Lai, Ming-Ming
Lumby, Anthony
Lynn, Stuart
Lyroudi, Katerina
Mahon, John F.
Manfra, Pellegrino
Marangos, John
Marks, Andrew
Marktanner, Marcus
McAleese, Dermot
Mohamed, M. Zain
Nayak, Ajit
Nigohosian, R.H.
Obadic, Alka
Papathanasis, A.T.
Parsa, Sepideh
Pediaditakis, Minas
Petrochilos, George
Philippas, N.D.
Pinto Jr., Helder Q.
Polichronis, John
Portougal, Victor
Rados, Tomislav
Rafferty, Michael
Ramady, M.A.
Rantakyro, Lena
Rashed, Jamal Abu
Rowley, Jennifer
Saee, John
Salavrakos, I.D.
Salvary, C.W.
Samitas, Aristeidis G.
Schiller, Maria C.O.S.
Shahwan, Yousef
Shan, Jordan
Springler, Elisabeth
Stanton, John
Stanton, Patricia
Su, Yuli
Tahinakis, Panayiotis
Thompson, Earl A.
Tvaronaviciene, M.
Vambery, Robert G.
von Staden, Peter
Voola, Jo
Ward, Allan
Wise, Victoria
Worner, William E.
Yan, Ho-don
Yannick, Perez
Zoricic, Davor
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Page
Jennifer
Rowley,
University of Wales, Bangor, UK. 1
CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; A CORE ORGANISATIONAL
COMPETENCE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM?
MARKETING ISSUES
Sofia
Daskou, University
of Strathclyde, UK; 13
Cleopatra Veloutsou, University of Glasgow, UK; &
Konstantinos
Liakos,
Olympic Games Committee, Greece.
‘IT’S
FUNNY, BUT DOES IT MATTER?’: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
EFFECT
OF HUMOUR ON GREEK AND SCOTTISH AUDIENCES
Marie-Louise Fry,
University of Newcastle, Australia. 24
PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES: THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISEMENT
ORIENTATION IN ROAD SAFETY ADVERTISING
Guilherme
D. Pires,
University of Newcastle, Australia; & 34
John
Stanton,
University of Western Sydney, Australia.
PRIORITISING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ETHNIC MARKETING
SEGMENTATION
Guilherme
D. Pires,
University of Newcastle, Australia; & 45
John
Stanton,
University of Western Sydney, Australia.
INCOME AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY DIFFERENCES
IN
AN ETHNIC COMMUNITY AND EFFECTS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
ACCOUNTING & AUDITING
Jeffrey Faux & Victoria
Wise, Victoria University, Australia. 56
CONVERGENCE
WITH INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
STANDARDS:
IMPLICATIONS FOR SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
Patricia
Stanton, University
of Newcastle, Australia; & 64
John
Stanton,
University of Western Sydney, Australia.
HOW
DO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DISCHARGE THEIR
ACCOUNTABILITY?
Evangelos
P. Koumanakos, National Bank of Greece, Greece; 72
Costas
Siriopoulos &
Antonios Georgopoulos, University of Patras, Greece.
A SURVEY OF THE
APPROACHES USED IN DETECTING
EARNINGS MANAGEMENT
Ming
Ling Lai,
Mara University of Technology, Malaysia; 88
Siti
Normala Sheikh Obid,
International Islamic
University, Malaysia;
Norizan
Mohamad Kassim,
United
Arab Emirates University, UAE; &
Ahamad Kameel Meera,
International Islamic University, Malaysia.
TAX PRACTITIONERS’ ACCEPTANCE OF THE ELECTRONIC
FILING SYSTEM: AN EMPIRICAL TEST USING
STRUCTURAL
EQUATION MODELING
Panayiotis Tahinakis,
Nicolaos Protogeros & 104
Dimitrios Ginoglou,
University
of Macedonia, Greece.
THE
APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
IN
GREECE: THE CASE OF MEASURING GOODWILL
Michael
Ulinski,
Pace University, USA. 113
THE
AFFECT ON MARKET VALUE AND SHAREHOLDER PERCEPTION
OF
VALUE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE WAKE OF RECENT
ACCOUNTING
SCANDALS
Gregory
J. Phillip & Patricia Stanton, University of Newcastle, Australia. 121
ACCOUNTING FOR HERITAGE ASSETS: AN EVALUATION OF
AUSTRALIAN REPORTING PRACTICE IN RELATION TO
RAILWAY ASSETS
Stella Sofocleous &
Victoria Wise, Victoria University, Australia. 130
MANAGEMENT
PREFERENCES FOR ACCOUNTING, TAXATION
AND
GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF FORESTRY FIRMS: SOME
FINDINGS
AND IMPLICATIONS
MANAGEMENT & INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
Thomas
Zomack, University
of Magdeburg, Germany. 137
CORPORATE
IDENTITY AND ITS FOUNDATION:
AN
ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE
Michael
Novak,
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA; & 152
Jeanne
Aurelio,
Bridgewater State College, USA.
VIRTUAL
LEADER TM: A PROMISING SIMULATION
Nilufer
Tetik, Burcu
Demirel Utku & Volkan Altintas, Akdeniz University,Turkey. 162
A
RESEARCH OF ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS IN TERMS OF
INTELLECTUAL
CAPITAL IN TURKEY (ANTALYA REGION)
Jordan Shan &
Shengping Zhang, Peking University,
China. 174
DO
INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS IMPROVE CORPORATE
PERFORMANCE
IN CHINA? SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
Steve
Bakalis,
Victoria University, Australia; & 186
Therese
A Joiner,
La Trobe University, Australia.
APOLLONIAN
OR ATHENIAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE?: CHOICES
AND
IMPLICATIONS FOR GREEK AND THAI MANAGERS’ JOB STRESS
AND
PERFORMANCE
Marko
Kolakovic, University
of Zagreb, Croatia. 197
MANAGEMENT
PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES IN A
VIRTUAL
ECONOMY
TAXATION, FINANCE & INVESTMENTS
Maria
Italia,
Victoria University, Australia. 208
ENHANCING CLIENT PRIVILEGE FOR TAXPAYERS - AN
AUSTRALIAN SETTING
Minas
Pediaditakis,
Technological Education Institute of Crete, Greece. 220
PREVENTING
FINANCIAL CRISIS IN A GLOBALIZING CONTEXT
Lisa Bradley,
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; & 241
Charles Hickson,
Queens University, Northern Ireland.
A ROLE OF THE GOOD SEAL OF APPROVAL IN MINIMISING
BORROWING RISK TO SMES
Ghaleb A. El-Refae, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan; & 248
Jamal A. Rashed,
Xavier University, USA.
OPTIMAL
INVESTMENT UNDER STANDARD DEBT CONTRACT:
KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Dimitris F. Kenourgios, Athens
University of Economics & Business, Greece & 261
Aristeidis
G. Samitas,
University of the Aegean, Greece.
TESTING
EFFICIENCY OF THE COPPER FUTURES MARKET:
NEW
EVIDENCE FROM LONDON METAL EXCHANGE
Nikolaos
Philippas,
University of Piraeus, Greece. 272
SOME
NEW EVIDENCE ON TIMING AND SECURITY SELECTION
SKILL
OF GREEK MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS
ETHICS
Allan
Ward,
Plymouth University, UK. 284
HAVING
BEING AND CONSUMPTION; A CRITICAL
REALIST'S
RESPONSE
Darko
Tipuric, Mislav Ante Omazic; & 289
Domagoj
Hruska,
University of Zagreb, Croatia.
CORPORATE
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CROATIAN
MANAGERS
– EMPIRICAL STUDY
QUANTITATIVE METHODS, STATISTICS & ECONOMETRICS
Eirini
Lykouropoulou &
300
Panagiotis
Lazaridis, Agricultural
University of Athens, Greece.
CONSUMER
WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN
GREECE:
THE CASE OF ORGANIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Anita
Ghatak, The
University of Greenwich, UK. 308
STATIONARITY AND STRUCTURAL BREAKS: THE CASE OF
ITALY
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Andreas
C. Drichoutis, Panagiotis Lazaridis, 320
Agricultural
University of Athens, Greece; &
Rodolfo
M. Nayga,
Texas A&M University, USA.
DETERMINANTS
OF CONSUMERS’ USE OF NUTRITIONAL
FOOD
LABELS
Eucario
Gasca-Leyva,
Center of Research and Advanced Studies Merida, Mexico; 333
Juan
Hernandez, Las
Palmas University, Spain; &
Alejandro
Flores-Nava, Center
of Research and Advanced Studies Merida, Mexico.
MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIES FOR BULLFROG PRODUCTION IN
INUNDATED
SYSTEM
BUSINESS LAW / LAW & ECONOMICS
Gerrit
Radder,
University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 343
DEVELOPMENTS
IN FORENSIC AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
IN
SOUTH AFRICA SINCE 1994
Theo
Papadopoulos,
Victoria University, Australia. 351
BLACK
MARKETS FOR COUNTERFEIT AND PIRATE PRODUCTS
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDUCATION
Despina
Whitefield,
Victoria University, Australia; 359
Louise
Kloot,
Swinburne University, Australia; &
Jim
Sillitoe,
Victoria University, Australia.
PERSONAL
AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
IN
THE PREPARATION OF ACCOUNTANTS
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION & GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos,
London Metropolitan University, UK; & 371
George A. Petrochilos,
visiting University of Birmingham, UK.
CONTROL
AND CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES:
EVIDENCE
FROM GREEK JOINT VENTURES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Andreas
Efstathiades, Marie Arbelias & Eleni Iacovou, 383
Cyprus
College, Cyprus.
A
THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE
SUCCESSFUL
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN THE CYPRUS
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRY
Christos
Nicolaidis
& George Michalopoulos, University
of Macedonia, Greece. 394
EMPOWERMENT IN THE GREEK BANKING SECTOR:
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Jorg Borrmann
& Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti, 407
University
of Vienna, Austria.
FRANCHISE
BIDDING WITH DIFFERENCES IN DEMAND
Jorg
Borrmann,
University of Vienna, Austria. 411
AWARDING
MONOPOLY FRANCHISES REPEATEDLY:
ARE
SECOND-BEST BLOCK-RATE TARIFFS ATTAINABLE
WITHOUT
REGULATION?
Victoria Wise,
Victoria University, Australia. 423
GOVERNMENT CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL REPORTING:
HARMONISATION ISSUES
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Marcus Marktanner, American University of
Beirut, Lebanon. 434
DID
IMPORT-SUBSTITUTING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ABUSE
DEPENDENCE THEORY?
Ho-don
Yan &
Chung-lung Yang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. 445
RESERVE
ADEQUACY: EVIDENCE FROM THE INTERTEMPORAL
BALANCE
MODEL
Shabnamjit Sing Hundal,
A Pee Jay College of Fine Arts, Jalanadhar, India. 455
ENVIRONMENT RELATED NON-TARIFF BARRIERS UNDER THE
NEW REGIME OF GLOBAL TRADE
Josip
Tica, Vlatka Bilas &
Danijela Cenan, University of Zagreb,
Croatia. 466
COMPETITIVENESS
OF CROATIA AND ITS STRATEGY
LABOR ECONOMICS / HUMAN RESOURCES
Thomas
Fent,
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria. 478
ECONOMIC
GROWTH AND THE SECOND DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
Alka
Obadic & Oliver Kesar, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 490
TOURISM
EMPLOYMENT PROFILE AND TRENDS – EMPIRICAL
EVIDENCE
FROM CROATIA
L. T. Szamosi,City College / University of
Sheffield, Greece; & 504
I. Piperkova, Skopje,
FYROM.
BENCHMARKING
THE USE OF MOTIVATING LANGUAGE
DURING
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN SOUTH-EASTERN
EUROPE:
A CASE STUDY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Marcus
Marktanner,
American University of Beirut, Lebanon. 515
FRAGILE
DEMOCRATIZATION – PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE!
BEHAVIORAL
& HEALTH ECONOMICS
Laetitia Radder,
Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa. 524
TROPHY
HUNTING: A SUGGESTED TYPOLOGY OF MOTIVES
Sam
Mirmirani
& Matthias Lippmann, Bryant
College, USA. 535
ASSESSING HEALTH CARE EFFICIENCY OF OECD COUNTRIES
WITH
DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA)
MACROECONOMICS & MONETARY ECONOMICS
Jane
M. Binner,
Aston University, UK; 546
Alicia
M. Gazely,
Nottingham Trent University, UK; &
Thomas
Elger, Lund
University, Sweden.
DYNAMIC
NEURAL NETWORK BASED INFLATION FORECASTS
FOR
THE UK
Elisabeth Springler, Vienna University, Austria. 554
HOW TO STABILIZE
CAPITAL FLOWS IN CENTRAL / EASTERN
EUROPE: WILL THE NEW
EUROPEAN UNION FACE AN INCREASE
IN FINANCIAL
FRAGILITY?
Marijana
Ivanov, Tomislav Coric & Davor Zoricic, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 565
MONETARY POLICY CREDIBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF
CROATIA
GOVERNMENT FINANCE
Mohamed
A. Ramady, 576
King
Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.
GOVERNMENT
FINANCES: A CASE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIAN
BUDGETARY
STRUCTURAL REFORMS
Nika Sokol-Knjaz &
Ana Andabaka, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 591
THE
REFORM OF THE FISCAL SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
David Floyd,
University of Lincoln, UK. 597
DOES
THE UK GOVERNMENT HAVE AN EFFECTIVE ECONOMIC
MODEL?
REGIONAL, URBAN, RURAL AND SPATIAL ECONOMICS
Lisa
Bradley,
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; 602
Terrence
Wendell Brathwaite, Coventry University, UK;
Thomas
Fent,
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria;
Marcus
Marktanner,
American University of Beirut, Lebanon; &
Cleopatra
Veloutsou,
University of Glasgow, UK.
HOSTING
THE OLYMPICS – BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
Ferda
Halicioglu,
The University of Greenwich, UK. 614
AN
ARDL MODEL OF AGGREGATE TOURISM DEMAND FOR TURKEY
Ozlem Oz,
Middle East Technical University, Turkey. 624
GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION AND COMPETITIVENESS: AN
ANALYSIS OF THE TURKISH EXPERIENCE WITH THE HELP OF
FUZZY-SET METHODS
Aleksander Aristovnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 629
THE
REFORM OF THE EU’S STRUCTURAL / COHESION
POLICY
– FROM DIVERGENCE TO CONVERGENCE?
Ozlem
Oz, Middle
East Technical University, Turkey. 643
CLUSTERS
AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: A CRITICAL
REVIEW
OF LITERATURE
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Jamal
A. Rashed,
Xavier University, USA; 653
Subarna K. Samanta, The College of New Jersey, USA.
CORRUPTION
AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS IN
TRANSITION
COUNTRIES: AN ANALYSIS
Aristidis
Bitzenis, 663
City Liberal Studies / University of Sheffield,
Greece; &
Ersanja
Nito, Savings
Bank of Albania.
FDI AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ALBANIA
Mohamed
Zain,
United Arab Emirates University, UAE &
672
Raja Nerina Raja Yusof,
University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONTROLLED MECHANISMS AND
NATIONALITY, LEVEL OF OWNERSHIP, AND TYPE OF
INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES OF MNCS
ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION
John Marangos, Colorado State University,
USA 684
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES TO SOCIAL POLICY
DURING TRANSITION
Robert
Nigohosian,
Salt Lake Community College, USA & 694-705
Shanghai
Normal University, China
FROM
PLAN TO MARKET: AN OUTSIDER’S VIEW OF THE
ECONOMIC
REFORMS IN CHINA
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