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Attendance of board meetings and company performance: Evidence from Taiwan

Chou, Hsin-I; Chung, Huimin; Yin, Xiangkang - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 11, pp. 4157-4171

This paper empirically investigates board meeting attendance and its effects on the performance of Taiwanese listed … themselves can enhance a firm’s performance but high attendance by their representatives has an adverse effect. Independence of … directors or a board is also positively associated with firm performance. These results largely hold even when the sample is …

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Instrumental Stakeholder Theory in Turbulent Environments: An Empirical Testing using Political and Social Donations

Marcon, Rosilene; Mello, Rodrigo Bandeira de; Alberton, … - In: Brazilian Business Review 5 (2008) 3, pp. 275-293

Brazil using different performance indicators. In the first model, a multiple regression model estimated the effects of … establishing political and social stakeholder relations on firm performance, by comparing donating firms to a control group of non … intensity between firm and industry-level stakeholder orientations and performance on donating firms. In both tested models, our …

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Strategic Management Theory: Concepts, Analysis and Critiques in Relation to Corporate Competitive Advantage from the Resource-based Philosophy

Baldin, Claire; Eruola, O.A. - In: Economic Analysis 44 (2011), pp. 59-77

one of the main strategic management theories applicable to explain organizational performance, and it is also a part of …

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Corporate boards' political ideology diversity and firm performance

Kim, Incheol; Pantzalis, Christos; Park, Jung Chul - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 21 (2013) C, pp. 223-240

ideology of board members, can affect a firm's performance. We employ personal political contributions' data to measure … those of management. We find that ideologically diverse boards are associated with better firm performance, lower agency …

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Gains from Offshoring? Evidence from U.S. Microdata

Monarch, Ryan; Park, Jooyoun; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and...

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Information and Communication Technologies: Cagliari’s Production System

Deidda, Dolores - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 1

This article analyzes the evolution of Cagliari’s local ICT system. Established at the end of the 1990s, the local system benefitted from three factors: highly skilled researchers; industrial application of research results; and a local firm eager to achieve first mover advantage. Recently,...

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Export performance, invoice currency, and heterogeneous exchange rate pass-through

Fabling, Richard; Sanderson, Lynda - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2013

Using comprehensive, shipment-level merchandise trade data, we examine the extent to which New Zealand exporters maintain stable New Zealand dollar prices by passing on exchange rate changes to foreign customers. We find that the extent to which firms absorb exchange rate fluctuations in the...

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Effect of Firm Performance on Corporate Governance A Panel Data Analysis

Younas, Zahid Irshad; Mahmood, Haider; Saeed, Asif - In: Asian Journal of Empirical Research 3 (2013) 1, pp. 1-8

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of prior year firm’s performance on subsequent year firm … results revealed that prior year firm’s performance has positive relationship with board size but negative relationship with … audit expenditure. Furthermore, any change in prior year firm’s performance causes change in CEO duality. …

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A Comparative Analysis of Post Restructuring Performance of Firms in Financial and Real Sectors in Nigeria

Oloyede J. A.; Sulaiman L. A. - In: Asian Journal of Empirical Research 3 (2013) 1, pp. 62-73

This study carries out a comparative analysis of post restructuring performance of firms in the financial sector proxy … performance of firms selected from the banking sector as well as oil and gas sector in Nigeria. It also tries to see if the post … restructuring performance also varies in these sectors. A sample of Ten (10) banks were randomly chosen from the list of quoted …

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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: An Analysis of Family and Non-family Controlled Firms

Yasser, Qaiser Rafique - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 1, pp. 47-62

The aim of this study is to scrutinise the impact of corporate governance mechanism on the performance of family and … performance of both family and non-family controlled companies significantly. However all corporate governance mechanisms are not …

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