It takes more to succeed in today’s global marketplace. More responsiveness. More flexibility. More commitment. To compete, organisations need their staff to understand business goals and brand values and feel personally committed to their achievement. To flourish, they need their people to...

Technology is rapidly changing the shape of internal communication, as increasingly more organisations make use of email, intranets, ‘extrenets’, databases and the like. The promise of an ‘information superhighway’ has led many organisations to invest heavily in technology, both in terms...

As business communicators, we seek the ‘holy grail’ of our industry — a way to contribute to the bottom line, and demonstrate that contribution in hard business terms. We want the hard evidence to support our belief that internal communication is more than a fashionable ‘nice to have’,...

The relationship between dividends and corporate governance in five East Asian countries over the period 1994-2003, comparing the outcome and substitute models, is investigated. Evidence of a pre-crisis negative relationship between dividends and governance indicates that dividends act as a...

We investigate the incentives that misvaluation creates for: (1) insider trading; and (2) concurrent earnings management through both accruals and real activities. Managers of overvalued firms have an incentive to sustain overvaluation through income increasing earnings management and, at the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate explanations for the behaviour of the size premium using measures of large and small stock holdings of mutual funds. Design/methodology/approach – Returns‐based style analysis is used to measure asset class exposure by regressing equity...