This paper examines whether the stock market valuation impact is consistent with subsequent operating performance of … period. We then analyze post-rights issue operating performance of firms and find that, consistent with the announcement … operating performance. Additional investigation of both stock and operating performance decline provides full support for the …

, and performance at the firm level. Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7,302 European …

affiliation. Although syndicated investments do not differ significantly in stock-market performance, they show significantly …

financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain … workplace performance but the effect disappears once unionization is treated as endogenous. However, high levels of union … density do have a negative impact on workplace performance in France. In Britain the union effect does not rise with union …

The paper examines the association between financial performance and boards of non-financial firms. Using data on over …-specific factors, board diligence as well as director busyness exerts a positive influence on corporate performance. …

This paper examines the association between corporate governance attributes and firm performance of Finnish firms … during 1990 – 2000. The empirical results suggest that corporate governance matters for firm performance. First, univariate …

A central theme in strategic management is the theoretical relationship between strategic groups and firm performance … house-building firms, and studies performance differences between groups. The empirical findings demonstrate that … significant differences in performance do not exist among groups. Implications of this research for Porter's generic strategies in …

-sized enterprise (SME) performance. The first main part of the article is a review of literature of relevance to the study. The second … SME performance and social capital usage across UK regions, with samples stratified according to degrees of knowledge … social networks most firms cannot function in markets. It shows high performance firms to be the most intensive users of …

This study examines the impact that locational spillovers have on firm performance. On the basis of a uniquely created … spillovers positively affecting firm performance, as measured by abnormally high profits on the stock market. The results provide … evidence that geographic proximity and university spillovers are complementary determinants of firm performance. Although …