Intellectual capital is an important element of the theory explaining firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between the level of intellectual capital efficiency in terms of Human Capital, Capital Employed and Structural Capital (VAIC) with the commercial...

Field studies linking workforce age to performance tend to treat performance as one-dimensional and often focus on individual, not organizational performance. To analyze the effects of workforce age on organizational performance, we suggest treating performance as multidimensional with at least...

Previous studies have established that firms' effectiveness can differ based on the differences among directors within a board, and between boards. However, studies have yet to establish the effectiveness of the diverse attributes of the board on firms' quality of earnings in an emerging market...

We investigate the relation between board gender diversity and firm profitability using the control function (CF) approach recently suggested by Wooldridge (2015). The CF method takes account of the problem of endogenous explanatory variables that have potential to bias the results. Using a...

Numerose analisi empiriche trovano che le imprese femminili presentano un differenziale di performance rispetto a quelle maschili e che questo gap può essere attribuito a quelle differenze personali (quindi di genere) che sono correlate con alcune caratteristiche dell'impresa. L'obiettivo di...

This report examines the gender characteristics and business dynamics of establishments that were in operation as of 2002 for the 2002-2006 period, using matching data from the 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) and the 1989-2006 Business Information Tracking Series (BITS). Employer...