Les temps déclarés par les employés sont largement utilisés dans les entreprises pour calculer des coûts. Ce phénomène s'amplifie dans les activités de services où les charges de personnel sont prépondérantes. Pourtant, rien ne garantit que les temps déclarés soient des temps...

Proposé par Kaplan et Anderson en 2004 pour remédier aux écueils de la méthode ABC, le TD ABC se veut plus simple, moins cher et plus puissant que l'ABC. L'intégration d'un nombre important d'inducteurs de coûts doit permettre de mieux modéliser la complexité croissante des processus. Le...

La Porta et al.'s [La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (1998). Law and finance. Journal of Political Economy, 106(6), 1113-1155] theory of law and finance predicts that minority controlled ownership structures, i.e. those that allow voting rights to exceed cash-flow...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between dominant shareholders, whose voting rights exceed cash flow rights (excess control), and firms’ cost of capital, including both equity capital and debt. Design/methodology/approach – This research is conducted...

In this article we attempt to contribute to governance research in the nonprofit area by proposing a conceptual framework inspired by recent developments in the literature. First, we analyze the governance of nonprofit organizations (hereafter, NPOs) from different theoretical perspectives,...

(VF)La relation qui existe entre la concentration des droits de vote et la performance des sociétés canadiennes est non monotone, reflétant à la fois les avantages et les inconvénients de la concentration des droits de propriété. Dans certaines circonstances, la séparation des droits de...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the legal status of a firm and the set of corporate goals that it pursues have an influence on the firm's efficiency. To perform this investigation, the productivity of the two main Canadian railways, namely Canadian National Railway (CNR) and...

The purposes of the paper are to determine whether governments underprice shares in fixed-price share-issue privatizations (SIPs) and, if so, what their motivations are for doing so. This paper develops three models of SIP underpricing: one based on revenue goals, one based on political goals...

Shareholders in many share issued privatizations (SIPs) have enjoyed substantial increases in the value of their investments. This study examines the factors that influence the long-run stock price performance of an international sample of SIPs, focusing on three-year buy and hold returns. After...