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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"corporate decision making"”.
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Corporate Decision-Making: Three Essays in Applied Finance
<p>Corporate Decision-Making: Three Essays in Applied Finance.By Mohamed Ahmed Abd El Rahman Ahmed Khashbah Claremont Graduate University: 2024 This dissertation consists of three distinct chapters, each focusing on a different topic. Chapter 1 of this dissertation investigates the relative …
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Bringing them together: integrating economic and social-ecological dimensions in corporate decision-making
… and environmental dimensions is essential for corporate sustainability. Integration requires that there be no a priori priority among these dimensions. Economic priorities, however, often dominate decision-making processes in for-profit organisations. This thesis asks how do organisations …
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Co-Creation in unternehmerischen Entscheidungsprozessen in den Bereichen Marke, Marketing und Innovation im Privatkundengeschäft von Kreditinstituten
… rights. Identity factors related to the corporate brand as well as to aspects of community, regionality and life interests are proposed as a means of achieving decisive customer engagement. In this respect, customer participation in corporate decision-making leads to a reciprocal increase …
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Original powers of state-owned companies' boards in South Africa
… that the developmental mandate objective (a corporate purpose) and the board's autonomy (corporate decision-making power) can co-exist. In other words, the developmental mandate objective does not make a board-centric governance model unsuitable for the SOCs. The involvement of politically …
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Three Essays on Sustainable Finance and Behavioral Insights: Exploring Sustainability, Inclusion, and Decision-Making Dynamics
… and executive behavioural influences on corporate decision-making. The first paper investigates the role of energy efficiency in the U.S. residential real estate market, highlighting how climate-conscious beliefs drive the pricing of sustainable homes. Using a hedonic pricing model, the …
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Dynamic Financial Analysis of Property-Liability Insurance Companies
… to test various hypotheses concerning valuation, corporate decision-making, and optimal regulatory policy. Two types of DFA models are developed. The first is termed ""conventional"" since it builds on existing financial models in the life and P-L insurance industries. The single-period …
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COVID-19 brought the perils of 'short-termism' back to the fore : how will corporate governance respond?
… pandemic has turned the academic eye onto corporate governance and its current shortcomings. Shareholders are at the centre of the company and its decision-making which is the consequence of the prevalent & well-established shareholder primacy model of corporate governance. This …
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Foreign direct investment – a behavioural finance approach
… thesis is to contribute to the understanding of corporate decision making regarding foreign direct investments (FDI) by applying two behavioural finance concepts, home bias and herding, to the analysis of FDI flows. I contribute to the literature by empirically testing for home bias and herding …
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Navigating Global Shifts: Organisational Behaviour and Strategic Responses to Shifting Business Environments
… The thesis first explores how location decisions are made amid global economic shifts. It analyses how firms that previously offshored production evaluate economic variables, navigate uncertainties, and capitalise on opportunities. It also underscores the complexities and impacts of …
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Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
… are not a reliable indicator of fundamental corporate value. Based on this conclusion, an original dual pathway for SMST reform is proposed. This dual pathway indicates that SMST reform measures must either: (1) reduce the actual or perceived excessive discounting of future returns by …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment: Its Potential Adoption and Use in Corporate Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
… (pre-project) stages of strategic planning and decision-making. Although SEA is a key aspect of current and evolving environmental assessment theory and practice, the primary focus thus far has been on its statutory application to public-sector planning initiatives. Despite previous comments …
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Three essays on taxation and corporate finance: evidence from Japan
… topics on the relationship between taxation and corporate decision-making. A feature of our study is that we use natural experiments in Japan for identification as well as unique data sets of Japanese corporations. This research framework allows us to provide new evidence for several research …
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Employee participation and voice in companies : a legal perspective
… 2008. Central to company law is the promotion of corporate governance: companies no longer are accountable to their shareholders only but to society at large. Leaders should direct company strategy and operations with a view to achieving the triple bottom-line (economic, social and environmental …
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Stuck in the Middle: The Impact of Implementing Corporate Decisions on Middle Managers' Justice Perceptions
… middle managers are impacted when implementing corporate decisions that have no direct impact on the managers themselves. Because justice perceptions are strongly linked to key organizational behaviors and attitudes, understanding how middle managers’ perceptions are influenced can give insight …
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Theorising Irish company law: locating Irish company law within entity theory
… built on the doctrines of limited liability and corporate personality. Third, it will show that Irish company law and most corporate law frameworks enable and support managerial discretion which this thesis refers to as the second pillar of entity theory. These findings converge on the conclusion …