The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between stock market returns of 13 countries based upon monthly data spanning December 1987 to April 2007. Specifically, the principal component (PC) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods are used to examine any discernable patterns of...

This paper investigates the cointegrating and long-term causal relationships between the Shanghai A and B-share market, and between these two markets and the Hong Kong, the Taiwanese, the Japanese and the US market of two sub periods between July 1993 and March 2007. On the basis of a new...

Viet Nam stands at an important crossroads in its transition from a planned to a market-orientated economy. While it has moved considerably from being an inward-looking, stagnant and financially dependent planned economy during the early 1980s to an outward-orientated, globalized and...

This paper presents a framework that helps researchers to design and validate both formative and reflective measurement models. The framework draws from the existing literature and includes both theoretical and empirical considerations. Two important examples, one from international business and...

The paper seeks to provide a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence on the impact of HRM fit on citizenship and task performance (CTP) of employees. A range of recently published articles were critically reviewed in order to argue that HRM fit is useful to address issues of substandard...

This study examines the cointegrating and long-term causal relationships of equity market prices in equity markets of Chinese states namely, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. I cover the period between October 5. 1992 and March 20. 2006, taking into account both the Asian...

This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by investigating the determinants of capital structure of Jordanian companies with the constraint of inadequate long-term debt as their source of financing and regional risk. We firstly document that Jordanian companies mostly depend on...

Marketing communications media technologies have the potential to be intrusive and influence consumers’ perceptions of marketing communication. Aggressive direct marketing (DM) is one communication tool that has the potential to lead to consumer concern about information privacy. Concerned...

The exclusivity conferred to inventors by intellectual properly rights (IPRs) provides an ex ante incentive for innovation, but the resulting market power entails un ex post inefficiency (because it limits use of the innovation). Strong IPRs may also affect innovation by limiting access of...

This paper argues the recent proposals expressed by the Australian Accounting Standard Board in Exposure Draft 151 contradicts the historical trend of standard setters attempting to achieve the objective of financial reporting, that is, the provision of decision-useful information for users of...