mechanism of cluster. Development status of wolfberry industrial cluster in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China is studied by … constructed and compared with the evolution model of competitive advantage of small and medium-sized enterprises in China. Result …

vergangenen Jahren in China zusehends an Bedeutung gewonnen. In den 1990er-Jahren durch westliche Unternehmen und internationale … Darstellung der allgemeinen CSR-Situation in China geht der Beitrag insbesondere auf die Entwicklung des Konzepts innerhalb der …

The aim of this paper is to explain Australian R&D capitalisation and voluntary disclosure. It is argued that the … discretionary choices available to management in Australia with respect to the accounting for and the disclosure of R&D expenditure …. Furthermore, research intensity, and the use of an R&D financing arrangements, are significant in explaining voluntary disclosure …

. The disclosure is likely to reduce the firm's cost of equity and debt. On the other hand, information about the firm …’s reserves is likely to attract competitors' attention. Therefore, managers aim to achieve an optimum level of disclosure in the … disclosure of reserves. The change in the rules does not seem to have much effect on the frequency of disclosure. Instead, the …

In this review piece, we survey the literature on the cost of equity capital implications of corporate disclosure and … insights into the selection of proxies for each of our points of interest, cost of equity capital, disclosure quality and …

failure and persistence. In the first essay, hypotheses are developed on the unintended consequences of patenting. Disclosure … domains—and suggests that hazards of disclosure also varies with this breadth. Finally, the third essay examines the effects …

This paper examines how one firm’s commitment to provide more public disclosure affects other firms’ disclosure … practices in subsequent periods. I develop an investor demand-driven explanation for why and when firms adopt the disclosure … by which one firm’s greater disclosure creates demand pressure for the other firm to follow. Using market risk …

This dissertation investigates the relation between firm disclosure, analyst forecast bias, and the cost of equity … capital (COEC). Since analyst forecast bias is associated with both implied COEC estimates and disclosure, it is important to … control for or remove it from COEC estimates when estimating the relation between disclosure and ex ante expected returns. I …