Stewardship is defined and considered in the context of offices and cultural typology. Five specific offices inherent to corporate organization and function, as well as four "ideologies" of corporate purpose, are discussed within the stewardship framework. A Goldman Sachs study of corporate...

This study tests the efficiency and profitability of banks that belongs to two different sectors: a) Islamic Banks (IBs) and b) Traditional Banks (TBs). The study concentrates on the pre and post 2008 financial crisis with an aim to test if there are any significant differences in performance...

This paper proposes a new nonparametric test for conditional independence, which is based on the comparison of Bernstein copula densities using the Hellinger distance. The test is easy to implement because it does not involve a weighting function in the test statistic, and it can be applied in...

The researchers aim to examine the firm-specific variables that impact the financial performance of general insurance firms in India. The study's scope is limited to India's insurance industries from 2010-2011 to 2019-2020. The research considers 21 insurance firms in India out of 35 general...

The authors study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on business performance with special reference to small business owners at nagaon district, assam. By this the author is trying to know the current situation of small business owners during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper will help to figure...

In this paper we describe a richer framework characterizing the trade-off between exploration and exploitation with respect firm performance. We devise a model that complements the notion of organizational learning as a process of inferential learning from the past with an explicit incorporation...

The aim of this paper is to understand the drivers of international performance for service firms. Qualitative interviews and a literature review are used to build the model which is tested empirically on computer-related (CR) service firms using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results show...

While some researchers have examined the relationship between interfirm trust and alliance performance (Inkpen and Curall, 1998; Luo,2002; Sako, 2000; Zaheer et aL, 1998), others have argued that several factors such as risk and uncertainty, cultural diversity of partners, and resource dependence (Elangovan...

It is argued that corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a potent source of innovation and competitive advantage. Those firms typically investing in socially responsible practices, both in ways that solve pressing social issues and improve the firms' competitive edge using the same...

Extending “above-the table”-relationships has been a principal objective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the very outset. This would provide benefits to the corporation and its stakeholders by getting everyone closely involved in the raison d'être of the business, through...