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Kiss, Károly Miklós; Lőrincz, László; Csáfordi, Zsolt - 2018

demand shocks. Evidence suggests that firms in crisis drop or downsize additional products not related to their core product …

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The Effect of the Financial Crisis on the Value of Corporate Diversification in Spanish Firms

de la Fuente, Gabriel - 2015

This paper examines the impact of the financial crisis on the value of corporate diversification in a civil law country … such as Spain. The financial crisis offers a natural research experiment to test the effect of a credit … 2012 period and controlling for endogeneity, we find that the financial crisis negatively moderates the impact of …

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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … ; diversification …

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Berkshire's disintermediation: Buffett's New Managerial Model

Cunningham, Lawrwence A. - 2015

Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

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The Optimal Allocation of Current Assets Using Mean-Variance Analysis

Kolias, Georgios - 2020

Research Question: The investigation of the optimal allocation of current assets. Motivation: Current assets investment is a decision process which affects firm value. In this paper, we develop a framework that encompasses these decisions by taking into consideration the trade-off between risk...

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Long-term firm growth : an empirical analysis of US manufacturers 1959-2015

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2019

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...

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Long-term firm growth : an empirical analysis of US manufacturers 1959–2015

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2021

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...

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What motivates Ugandan NGOs to diversify : risk reduction or private gain?

Dang, Canh Thien; Owens, Trudy - 2017

to affected areas to examine how Ugandan NGOs change their diversification behaviour following the change in incentives … from contractual funding. We find diversification is negatively related to financial incentives from stakeholders …

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Determinants of Diversification for Non-Life Insurance Companies in Spain

Chopo-Murillo, Sonia - 2016

This paper provides evidence on the determinants of the diversification status as well as the extent of diversification …, conflict of interests and external markets control are the sources of benefits and costs in diversification decisions by … diversification decisions. Results suggest that the search for operating efficiency arises as a key factor in diversification …

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The Effect of Institutional Investor Portfolio Diversification on Corporate Diversification

Boone, Audra L.; Celil, Hursit; Oh, Seungjoon; Selvam, … - 2021

We examine whether institutional investors' portfolio diversification affects corporate diversification and related … practices. Estimating investor portfolio diversification using their holdings' return characteristics, we find a negative … relationship between portfolio and corporate diversification that is robust to a quasi-natural experiment. Further, greater …

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