A considerable amount of research has revealed that ostracism is an important social phenomenon that substantially impacts the way people treat and are treated by others. Despite the importance of ostracism, little attention has been paid to workplace ostracism (WOS). This is surprising given...

Prior Research Suggests That A High Technology Start-Up's Innovative Capability And Inter-Firm Network Influence Its Performance And Consequently, Firm Valuation. Few Studies Consider Their Joint Influence And Even Fewer Consider The Temporal Change Of Those Effects On Firm Valuation. In This...

We examine the dynamics of Chinese listed SMEs with respect to their post-market viability and growth after going public. The Kaplan–Meier estimation shows that SMEs are more likely to transition to a non-viable state than large firms. Further examination using the Cox model and the random...

We investigate the propensity of Chinese publicly listed firms to invest in response to financial factors, according to the a priori degree of a firm’s information problems: industry sector, ownership structure and firm size. The firms in primary and tertiary industries are found to be...

We examine the interactions between business failures and macroeconomic aggregates, and specifically the accounts of policy-induced changes in the macroeconomy for the observed fluctuations of UK business failures in the period 1966–2003 using the vector errorcorrection model (VECM). The...

A rich literature argues that stock repurchases often serve as positive economic signals beneficial to investors. Yet due to their inherent flexibility, open-market repurchase programs have long been criticized as weak signals lacking commitment. We evaluate whether some managers potentially use...

An important problem for the homeless service sector is understanding the size of homeless populations, which has implications on planning services and social policy. The aim of this study is to apply capture-recapture methods to count the primary homeless population in the Adelaide city council...

The trust of sellers and transactions is a very important issue in e-commerce and e-service environments. At some e-commerce websites (such as eBay1), the trust management mechanism can compute a trust value of a seller, which is based on the ratings of past transactions given by buyers. This...