This study examines whether IT resources and capabilities affect the risk of bankruptcy of SMEs. Drawing on previous literature on bankruptcy and the resource-based view of the firm (RBV), we offer conclusive evidence of the influence of IT resources on financial health, as measured by the odds...

We use a novel dataset extracted from the Society of Information Management’s (SIM) survey of chief information officers (CIOs) and top information technology (IT) executives to examine organizations’ most critical IT management issues during 2014-2017 and their effect on firm profitability....

We hypothesize, and examine empirically, two types of association between organization capital and firm life cycle. Are firms with high organization capital more likely to be in a particular stage of their life cycle than firms with low organization capital? Are firms' transitions from one life...

Organizational integration between intra- and inter-organizational subsystems is an important factor of operational coordination, innovation, and strategic effectiveness. Scholars have mainly focused on the organizational integration of three sub-systems: production/operations, marketing/sales,...

We investigate how institutional factors influence the behavior of distressed firms in emerging markets, where bankruptcy laws are often weak and debtors have greater bargaining power in distress. By studying two comprehensive samples of distressed firms in China, we find that local government...

The founding directors of newly incorporated companies bring social capital (reputation, networks, business relationships) and human capital (task-related, professional and director experience) to a new venture and founding boards vary in degree of heterogeneity (size, diversity, turnover). This...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the combined effect of both internal and external mechanisms on the performance of thirty European banks. This research uses a technique of panel data over the period 2004 to 2009. The results show that banks conduct trade-offs between different governance...

Rating affects corporate credit costs and leverage choices. Therefore, we develop a corporate valuation model where the choice of leverage is consistent with the implied cost of debt of the rating class. We explicitly model the trigger, the consequences, and the analytical probability of...

The purpose of this paper is to find out if firms that operate with debt free balance sheet are rewarded more by the investors at large. For this we form portfolios of debt free firms and compare their performance with performance of matching portfolios of leveraged firms from the same industry...