The objective of this paper is assess the financial performance of disinvested central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India on the basis of several dimensions on pre and post disinvestment bases over the life span of more than two decades (i.e. 1986-87 to 2009-10); financial performance has...

The present field study investigates Indian managers' opinion about stock splits and their motives for issuing them. The empirical findings of the survey reveal that management views stock splits as a tool that enhances trading liquidity. It brings the share price down to a preferred trading...

The paper provides evidence that shareholders of acquirer Indian corporations engaging in cross-border transactions experience a statistically significant positive average abnormal return on the announcement day as well as cumulative average abnormal returns over multi-day event windows. The...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of process performance of micro-grinding and electrochemical honing, with the aim to achieve higher precision and surface quality of rebuild surfaces of the engine valve face. The discarded engine valve face was rebuilt using plasma transferred arc...

Driven by the dynamic corporate social responsibility (CSR) environment, which is encouraging movement from self-regulation to co-regulation, this study empirically investigates the impact of CSR on the efficiency of capital investments of firms in India, given its remarkable legislation that...

This paper endeavors to provide a review of methodology employed for studying four major anomalies over time – size effect, value effect, liquidity effect and standardized unexpected earnings (SUE) effect. First, the paper synthesizes a list of measures that have been employed to proxy each...

This study investigates whether, when, and how media coverage of environment, social, and governance (ESG) controversies, type of media reach, and media severity affects firm value in India's emerging and developing market. By anchoring enacted sensemaking theory with agenda-setting theory and...

The objective of this paper is assess the financial performance of disinvested central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India on the basis of several dimensions on pre and post disinvestment bases over the life span of more than two decades (i.e. 1986-87 to 2009-10); financial performance has...