Volume 1

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The international transfer of technology: Examples from the development of accounting.

Christopher Nobes

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Corporate governance and performance during plummeting and soaring financial markets.

Kurt A. Desender and Mónica Lopez Puertas-Lamy

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Advanced production practices and performance: empirical evidence from Spanish plants.

Darkys Luján-García, Pedro Garrido-Vega and Bernabé Escobar-Pérez

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What makes a woman to choose to work in a family company instead of a looking for a position in the work market or creating her own company?: a literature review.

 Anna Akhmedova, Rita Cavalloti and Frederic Marimon

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Strategic management decisions in power positions to achieve business excellence in small service businesses: does gender matter?

María del Mar Alonso-Almeida and Kerstin Bremser

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An ISO 10002:2004-based feedback-handling system for the emergency and inpatients care.

Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman Khan and Stanislav Karapetrovic

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New facets of quality. A multiple case study of green cosmetic manufacturers.

Inma Duran, Andrea Bikfalvi and Josep Llach

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An exploratory analysis of the board composition in Spanish innovative firms.

Juan Pablo Gonzales-Bustos and  Ana Beatriz Hernández-Lara

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Audit firm tenure and audit qualifications in Spain: a multinomial approach.

Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Ma Argiles and Monica Martinez-Blasco

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Audit expectation gap: Fraud detection and other factors.

Ramon Saladrigues and Marta Grañó

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What elements of financial stress affect contracting out and intermunicipal cooperation in the provision of local public services? The impact of the great recession.

José Luis Zafrá Gómez, Juan Sánchez Fernández, Ana María Plata Díaz and Gemma Pérez López