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IE University

EducationSegovia, Castilla y León, Spain
About: IE University is a education organization based out in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Supply chain. The organization has 527 authors who have published 1709 publications receiving 64682 citations.


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Salvador Carmona1
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion about the determinants of successful research is held in rather restricted venues, where the participants access to faculty, who in turn provide insights and comments regarding underpinnings of success.
Abstract: Do we produce relevant research? Are our efforts commensurate with the outcomes? Scholars in every discipline have pondered these questions, especially at some crucial stages of their careers (e.g. habilitations, and applications for promotion and tenure). Ultimately, this recurrent exercise pervasively revolves around the grand question of ‘what is successful research’, and more importantly, how can research be assessed? The exercise is indeed controversial. In social disciplines like accounting, it is sometimes difficult to assess the extent to which an accounting study adds to prior research in its focal area. Discussions about the determinants of successful research are usually held in rather restricted venues. For example, in high-profile universities, and business schools, research seminar series provide a good venue to elaborate on the potential prospects of a given paper, and ultimately on the understandings of what constitutes successful research. In a related vein, doctoral colloquia provide the participants access to faculty, who in turn, provide insights and comments regarding underpinnings of successful research. Accordingly, the manuscript and future research projects benefit immensely. Regrettably, many members of the accounting academic community do not have access to these opportunities. Consequently, bright and hard-working academics cannot always fully capitalise on the potentials of their research projects because of incomprehensive understanding of the subject matter and/or implementation problems. This situation particularly affects two groups of accounting scholars. First, the doctoral students and emerging academics who are engaged in longterm projects (e.g. Ph.D. thesis and/or thesis-related projects), which could leave a lasting impact on their understandings of accounting research, and, ultimately, on their professional reputation. For these scholars, getting an in-depth understanding regarding the determinants of successful accounting research just might be the key to a productive and fruitful career. Armed with such knowledge, these researchers are better prepared on how to handle their incipient research portfolio as well as their pipeline. Second, scholars affiliated with universities lacking a strong tradition in accounting research are not very much exposed to these debates either. Sometimes, these scholars engage in high demanding research projects but some critical, ex ante errors in their conceptual formulation European Accounting Review Vol. 20, No. 1, 1–5, 2011

11 citations

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Rolf Strøm-Olsen1
TL;DR: The court chronicler George Chastelain this article developed a complex language to express the interests of his patron, the Burgundian Duke Philip the Good (and, later, Charles the Bold), in establishing increased independence from the French crown.
Abstract: The court chronicler George Chastelain developed a complex language to express the interests of his patron, the Burgundian Duke Philip the Good (and, later, Charles the Bold), in establishing increased independence from the French crown. Because the duke was legally beholden to the crown by vassalage, this involved crafting a lexical strategy in which the French king was diminished, even as the ideal of French kingship remained intact, and even glorified, and is suggestive of the two-bodies theory of medieval jurisprudence. Chastelain’s strategy can be discerned in specific words and phrases that he uses in conjunction with the French crown; it can also be seen in his reformulation of the traditional organological metaphor of state. In general, this effort was an attempt to address the question of power and legitimacy indirectly, through the tenets of the res publica, without tarnishing the image of French kingship itself.

11 citations

Book ChapterDOI
11 Apr 2012
TL;DR: This paper proposes the use of an Evolutionary Algorithm to optimize the parameters of a trading system which combines Fundamental and Technical analysis (indicators).
Abstract: Nowadays, there are two types of financial analysis oriented to design trading systems: fundamental and technical. Fundamental analysis consists in the study of all information (both financial and nonfinancial) available on the market, with the aim of carrying out efficient investments. By contrast, technical analysis works under the assumption that when we analyze the price action in a specific market, we are (indirectly) analyzing all the factors related to the market. In this paper we propose the use of an Evolutionary Algorithm to optimize the parameters of a trading system which combines Fundamental and Technical analysis (indicators). The algorithm takes advantage of a new operator called Filling Operator which avoids problems of premature convergence and reduce the number of evaluations needed. The experimental results are promising, since when the methodology is applied to values of 100 companies in a year, they show a possible return of 830% compared with a 180% of the Buy and Hold strategy.

11 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and analyze data on the entire population of newspapers in Spain from 1966 to 1993, a time of peaceful transition from military dictatorship to capitalist democracy, and highlight the contingent nature of institutional life, demonstrating how changes in political contexts are associated with varying understandings of institutions.
Abstract: Many societies demand that independent professionals (e.g. auditors) certify the performance of firms. The value placed on such certification (i.e. the public perception of reliability/unreliability that may impact on an organization's success/failure) is not uniform, however, but contingent upon changing political contexts. This study presents and analyses data on the entire population of newspapers in Spain from 1966 to 1993, a time of peaceful transition from military dictatorship to capitalist democracy. Our results highlight the contingent nature of institutional life, demonstrating how changes in political contexts are associated with varying understandings of institutions. In particular, our findings support the prediction that, under a dictatorship, independently certified performance is not instrumental in organizational success or failure whereas, in a modern democracy, the certification process has a positive effect on the survival chances of firms.

11 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Andreas Richter11076948262
Martin J. Conyon4913110026
Mahmoud Ezzamel491387116
Mauro F. Guillén4514811899
Kazuhisa Bessho432235490
Bryan W. Husted401047369
Luis Garicano401197446
Marc Goergen382095677
Diego Miranda-Saavedra38597559
Cipriano Forza37846426
Dimo Dimov331176158
Gordon Murray32905604
Pascual Berrone29647732
Albert Maydeu-Olivares27373470
Jelena Zikic26462398
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202313
202246
2021124
2020142
2019103
201891