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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"corporate managers"”.
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Leadership and the selection and training of corporate managers
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1982.
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Modeling the Bargaining Game Between Multinational Firms and Britain's Office of Fair Trading: An Exploratory Analysis
… predictability, and transparency are formed by corporate managers and government officials within a highly discretionary system of regulation. Interactions between companies (foreign and domestic) and Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) are studied in order to assess the impact of …
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Differential Stock Market Reactions to the Presentation and Timing of the Announcements of Restructuring Charges and Write -Offs
… that were announced during 1986--1992, when the managers of firms had a great deal of discretion in announcing special charges. The results are consistent with a signaling scenario. Corporate managers intentionally choose presentation and timing of special charge announcements, using the …
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Moral hyperactivity in corporations: is corporate governance the solution?
Until recently, moral hyperactivity in US corporate settings has primarily gone unnoticed in academic research. This is in large part due to the closed-door secrecy of the inner workings of corporate governance.<br/><br/>Currently, when examining moral hyperactivity, academic literature primarily …
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A comparative analysis of technological learning systems in emerging rotorcraft companies
… is important to industrial policy makers and corporate managers who are seeking more clarity in the relationship between rotorcraft companies and the global social-political environment. Although there has already been extensive research on technological learning in various industries, …
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Evaluating the impact of real-time visualization on knowledge acquisition in management meetings
… participants in this research are 33 business managers and visual practitioners (n=33) located across five continents who have previously worked with real-time visualization techniques in management meetings. Using a mixed-methods case study design, this research investigated how corporate …
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A hybrid framework for social and financial investment decisions
Corporate managers need to constantly weight the interests of the firm's stakeholders (financers, employees, consumers) when making investment decisions. In recent years there have been growing preference from such stakeholders to address, with personal resources, the various market failures that …
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New product development in financial services companies: the role of the corporate centre
This thesis reports a study examining how the corporate centres of UK financial services companies involve themselves in product development in constituent businesses. Herein lies a key challenge for corporate managers - deciding on the appropriate balance between corporate nvolvement and granting …
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Knowledge discovery in corporate email : the compliance bot meets Enron
… a product necessary and desirable - increase in corporate regulation, explosive growth of email, acceptance of email as evidence in litigation. The cautionary tale of Enron provides the backdrop for the thesis. The government released hundreds of thousands of Enron management emails and they have …
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Rational Corporate Risk Management Policy: An Extension of Traditional Risk Management Theory to Incorporate Observed Managerial Behavior
There is qualitative and anecdotal evidence that corporate management deviates from received risk management theory. These deviations include: an overall hesitancy to accept projects with greater levels of total risk, increased return requirements compensating for firm-specific risk, employment of …
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Impact of Restricted Stock Grant (RSG) Issuance on Financial Performance of US Software and IT Companies
… To estimate the effect of RSG issuance on future corporate financial performance, multiple linear regression models will be utilized. Empirical results show that there is a significant positive relationship between the value of RSGs issued (RSGV) and 2-year forward return on assets (ROA). No …
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The corporate debt maturity choice : an empirical examination
… of capital structure, empirical research in the corporate debt maturity area is still scant. Related studies had formulated theoretical justifications for the observed cross-sectional multiplicity of debt maturities without a parallel concern in empirical research and to date, little empirical …
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The use of downside information to enhance investors' credibility judgments of good news management forecasts
A challenge that corporate managers face is how to enhance the credibility of their good news earnings forecasts. In the first part of my dissertation, I review the literature on two-sided advertisement from the marketing literature and the literature on management credibility in accounting. I also …
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Innovation and corporate renewal
… to your knitting" may be good advice in corporate strategy to avoid fragmentation of attention, sitting on the 'corporate laurels' of a leading firm is purely a recipe for disaster. These assertions may appear to be intuitive, yet most leading firms appear to be unable to innovate in …
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The Impact of Constraining Auditor Behavior and Audit Committee Questioning on Non-GAAP Reporting Decisions
Corporate managers often pursue voluntary non-GAAP reporting when mandatory reporting is limited, although regulators are concerned with how this reporting is utilized. While the level of flexibility external auditors exhibit during discussions over subjective GAAP reporting choices can influence …
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a Developing Country: An Analysis of Public-listed Corporations in Malaysia
… economic environment. It has been argued that corporate large-scale operations pose considerable challenges to existing domestic and international governance institutions. In response to various pressures from civil society groups and NGOs, corporations espouse CSR commitment by producing codes …
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Corporate environmental policy and the ethical values of individual managers: Exploring the connection at Royal Dutch Shell
… of the perceptions, beliefs, and feelings that corporate managers have toward corporate environmental responsibility (CER). It will enable the identification of the relationship, if any, between espoused corporate environmental policy of organisations, and the ethical values of the managers they …
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Brokering strategic partnerships between Asian and western biopharmaceutical companies in the global biologics market : assessment of capabilities of Asian participants in the biologics contract manufacturing organization marketplace
… personal interviews with senior/executive corporate managers of Asian domestic biopharmaceutical companies (principally Japanese and Korean firms). As the results indicate, the biopharmaceutical industry of each country has been influenced both by corporate strategy and government policy. …
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Identification and prevention of banking fraud and scams in New Zealand
… Government and its agencies, citizens, students, corporate managers, various financial and non-financial institutions, and academics who want to learn more about fraud, in particular about ways to detect and mitigate the risk of fraud.
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The Emergence of Sustainability Reporting in Pakistan – The Institutional Logics Perspective
… is mainly driven by the combination of market, corporate and professional logics. These logics, which collectively make a business case, are propagated mainly by the leading corporates, professional accounting bodies, non-governmental organisations and consultants. These actors through different …
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