G31 - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies; CapacityReturn

This research aims at: (1) identifying the impact of social media on Jordanian universities, in relevance to reputation and crisis communications; (2) investigating the measures applied to deal with possible reputation and crisis emergencies, and (3) developing a risk register for ensuring best practice of risk management. One hundred questionnaires were randomly distributed to 5 universities, and 20 students were selected from each one. The findings have revealed that the connection between social media and risk management has a great impact on the reputation of the university. In accordance with this, operational authorities in Jordan, as the Ministry of Higher Education should demonstrate to Jordanian universities how essential it is to implement a crisis communication and risk management plan in relevance to social media as well as other processes.

The effectiveness of production factors can be evaluated against several relations, which must always be understood as relations between output and input. The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between the effectiveness of production factors and business performance. One-factor productivity (more precisely labour productivity), total productivity (TFP) - on the basis of economic profit and Return on Assets (ROA) - the most synthetic indicator of profitability, were the applied indicators at approx. 820 agricultural enterprises. In the reference period (2004 - 2010) it was possible to describe the impact of the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union on the selected agricultural enterprises. The agricultural enterprises system was further classified according to several criteria to verify the assumption that enterprises with higher efficiency of production factors have a higher Return on Assets (ROA).