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Top management team diversity and firm performance: exploring a function of age

Tanikawa, Tomohiko; Kim, Soyeon; Jung, Yuhee - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 23 (2017) 3/4, pp. 156-170

direct effect of top management team (TMT) age diversity on firms’ financial performance (return on equity [ROE], return on … assets [ROA]) and the interactive effect of TMT age diversity and TMT average age on firms’ financial performance. Design … firm performance (ROE) was attenuated when the members of TMTs were relatively older. Originality/value First, this study …

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A systematic literature review on total quality management critical success factors and the identification of new avenues of research

Aquilani, Barbara; Silvestri, Cecilia; Ruggieri, Alessandro - In: The TQM Journal 29 (2017) 1, pp. 184-213

; and “impact-on-performance” papers, which show that few studies have considered the relationship between TQM and the … issues of both marketing and performance, underlining the most significant gap in the TQM literature. Research limitations …

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Determinants of Export Behaviour of German Business Services Companies

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Vogel, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

performance. Further, we used the pooled fractional probit estimator, recently introduced by Papke & Wooldridge, an approach that … that these variables are not per se positively related to export performance, but rather to time-constant characteristics …

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Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance

Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...

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The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK

Guest, Paul - In: The European Journal of Finance 15 (2009) 4, pp. 385-404

We examine the impact of board size on firm performance for a large sample of 2746 UK listed firms over 1981-2002. The … determine board size in the UK lead to a more positive board size-firm performance relation. In contrast, we find that the …

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Corporate Strategies and Performances of Korean Firms: The Unified Theory of the Firm Perspective

Park, Hong; Shin, Geon-Cheol; Jurn, Iksu - In: Global Economic Review 38 (2009) 2, pp. 185-203

A good understanding of the nature of the firm is essential in developing corporate strategies, building corporate competitiveness, and establishing sound economic policy. Several theories have emerged on the nature of the firm: the neo-classical theory of the firm, the principal agency theory,...

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Profitable aspects of mutualism in agricultural processing cooperatives

Sillani, Sandro - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2007) 2

This study offers a model of analysis of the profitability of agricultural processing cooperatives based on agricultural products contributed by partners. The indexes of the model provide: 1) the degree of profitability of agricultural products contributed independent of income policy measures;...

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Leviathan resists: the endogenous relationship between privatization and firm performance

Arin, K.; Ulubaşoğlu, Mehmet - In: Public Choice 140 (2009) 1, pp. 185-204

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Meta-analyzing ownership concentration and firm performance in Asia: Towards a more fine-grained understanding

Heugens, Pursey; Essen, Marc; Oosterhout, J. - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 26 (2009) 3, pp. 481-512

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The Effects of Corporate Finance on Firm Risk-taking and Performance: Theory and Evidence

Okada, Toshihiro; Daido, Kohei - School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University - 2009

Some firms may exhibit better operating performance than others because they undertake riskier projects: risk … generates several predictions about the determinants of a firmfs risk-taking and its performance. One key prediction of the …

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