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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Company characteristics"”.
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Changing institutional environment, Chinese company characteristics, and climate-change reporting
… reporting, and the impact on Chinese company characteristics and reporting practice. The thesis includes Chinese literature in evaluating the adaptability of theories originating in the West to the Chinese context. It identifies institutional theory as the preferred basis for …
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A study of company characteristics associated with financial disclosure practices in India
The objective of the study is to examine firms characteristics associated with aggregate financial disclosure practices of listed Indian manufacturing and trading companies for the financial year 1999-2000. Eight research hypothesis were developed. It is hypothesised that firm size, size of the …
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Study of Relationships between Apparel Manufacturers' Supply Chain Management, Company Characteristics, and Inventory Performance
… chain management (SCM) with the consideration of company characteristics. The objectives of the study are (a) to identify the level of SCM activities of apparel manufacturers, (b) to examine the differences of apparel manufacturers' characteristics (i.e., product characteristic, production system, …
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DO COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCE THE QUALITY OF INTEGRATED REPORTING? A STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN JSE TOP 100 LISTED COMPANIES. LISTED COMPANIES
… significant relationship exists between a company’s corporate characteristics and the quality of its integrated report. The JSE Top 100 companies are used as the study population, with the Ernst & Young Excellence in Reporting ratings used as the framework for assessing integrated reporting …
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The Impact of Federal Regulation on Time to Equivalence and Compliance within the Orthopaedic Medical Device Industry
… of three independent variables (i.e., the company's size and longevity) with the dependent variable, time to equivalence and 2) compare differences in mean days to equivalence based on specified company characteristics (i.e., regulatory affairs consultant use, regulatory training …
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How differences in heavy civil project set-up practices impact performance
… to respond to questions about the individual characteristics of their companies including financial performance. They then responded to a series questions asking them to rate how often they practiced specific project set-up activities. Project set-up activities were categorized into groups …
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The effects of individual, organizational and environmental factors on the adoptions of e-commerce by SMEs in the Netherlands. An examination of factors influencing managerial beliefs, attitudes and the use of an e-commerce system using the technology acceptance model.
… managerial and IT knowledge, individual characteristics, and company characteristics. Contrary to expectations, two categories - social factors and environmental characteristics - had few or no variables with a significant relationship. This study further presents empirical evidence to …
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Classification and Statistical Analysis of Employment Growth in United States Counties
… growth is typically examined by analyzing company characteristics and policy initiatives. In this thesis, we engage other types of data at the county level in pursuit of explaining this growth. Specifically, we investigate how social, economic, and demographic information can explain …
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Non-financial performance disclosure by Australian listed companies
… to investigate the relationships between company financial performance and company characteristics, and the extent of non-financial performance disclosure, in terms of quantity and quality, in annual and sustainability reports from 2014. This study developed a new scoring index based on …
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An investigation of intellectual capital disclosure in annual reports of UK firms. Practices and determinants.
… perspectives of corporate governance structure, company characteristics and market factors. IC disclosures were captured using content analysis, and were measured by a disclosure index, supported by word count and percentage of word count metrics to assess the variety, volume and focus of IC …
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The effect of supply chain visibility systems on business processes : a multi-case study analysis
… of SCVS on key operational processes varies by company characteristics and the stage of implementation of SCVS. This research is most useful to companies considering implementing an SCVS to understand the potential benefits of SCVS and the underlying mechanisms. Managers can increase the …
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Culture and corporate governance in South Africa.
… Director) and other factors such as company characteristics, market and performance related variables. Third it investigates the views/opinions of key stakeholders [e.g. regulators, King Code Commissioners, companies and institutional investors] regarding the state of corporate …
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An assessment of factors affecting performance and growth of new technology based firms in the UK
… new evidence is provided on the human capital characteristics (experience and education) of the current UK NTBF entrepreneurs. Secondly, the causal relationship between general and specific human capital (as well as their interactions) upon the company performance and growth is investigated via …
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The Existence and Use of Benefit Segments in the Irish Sea Ferry Market
… behaviour, buying behaviour and demographic characteristics are used to profile segments in the passenger market. Product characteristics, transport service characteristics and company characteristics are used to profile benefit segments in the freight market. The benefit segments may be used …
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Working capital management and profitability of UK firms: a contingency theory approach.
… for selected corporate governance and company characteristics. The study has three main objectives. The first objective is to determine the relationship between working capital management and its components (AR, AP and INV) and profitability as per extant research. The second objective …
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Examination of IPO mispricing in four markets
… markets. The firm-level factors examined include company characteristics, offer characteristics, issue certification, prospectus disclosure, market sentiment, and institutional characteristics. These factors are found to have a varying impacts across different levels of mispricing. Country-level …
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Support for post start-up small business growth
… employed to determine the effectiveness of those company characteristics associated with variations in predicting business growth, owner-manager growth intentions and owner-manager perceptions of the importance of different factors influencing growth. Results suggest that in providing support for …
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The Extent and determinants of greenhouse gas reporting in the United Kingdom.
… are influenced by corporate governance characteristics (board size, non-executive directors, environmental committee, audit committee, ownership concentration and director ownership) and firm characteristics (company size, profitability, gearing, liquidity and industry); and (3) To …
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Exploring the aggregate, mandatory and voluntary financial disclosure behaviour under a new regulatory environment : the case of Jordan
… (mandatory and voluntary) and a number of company characteristics (financial and non-financial) for Jordanian companies listed in ASE.3- To investigate whether or not Jordanian corporations in ASE comply with mandatory disclosure requirements when they prepare their annual reports.4- To …