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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"corporate value"”.
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Corporate value creation for Japan's construction firms in the shrinking and changing domestic market
… started to take serious approach to create their corporate value. The main purpose of this thesis is to find ways for the construction firms to create corporate value in Japan's shrinking construction market. To accomplish this purpose, the thesis studies the following three points: (1) the profit …
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La valoración empresarial basada en intangibles: de la revisión teórica a la evidencia empírica en escenarios de incertidumbre
… in recent years as one of the main drivers of corporate value. Nevertheless, their incorporation into valuation processes remains limited. This is largely due to the difficulty of quantifying them, the wide diversity of intangibles that may potentially generate value, and the lack of consensus …
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Integrating SMEs into value chains: an accelerated growth plan for South Africa
… the extent to which integration into a large corporate value chain promotes the sustainability of a SME. The study also examines the impediments that inhibit the growth of SMEs that are integrated in large corporate value chains. The research was conducted using an explanatory qualitative …
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How Can We Promote Impact/ESG Investing? - Clarifying the Skeptical Reasons and Benefits of Addressing Impact & ESG Investing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
… of Impact and ESG investments in enhancing corporate value. Chapter 1 introduces the complex landscape of these investments, outlining common misconceptions and the diverse definitions that prevail across different stakeholders. Chapter 2 delves into the metrics and standards used to assess …
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The role of the Balanced Scorecard for improvement of management systems in Japanese companies
… in the past tend to emphasize only one of values an organization has to realize, the Balanced Scorecard proposes that what is the most important for an organization be to balance these values for discrete stakeholders, ultimately for improvement of corporate value. This thesis considers the …
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Foreign exchange risk exposure, hedging behaviour, and corporate valuations: Evidence from South Africa
… Africa, hedging behaviour and their effect on corporate value, taking into account idiosyncratic factors. Foreign exchange risk exposure were estimated at more than 40% for all for proxy currencies on the basis of the standard augmented market model. However, after controlling for idiosyncratic …
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Empirically identified industry classification
… exposures (i.e. diversification level) affect corporate value. I find an unconditional diversification premium. However, there is substantial time series variation in the relation between diversification and valuation. This variation is able to reconcile many of the conflicting conclusions in …
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The Impact of Board Diversity on Textual Social, Environmental Disclosures, and Corporate Performance
… lead to better accounting profitability, corporate value, and market-based performance. Remarkably, the present study finds that nationality diversity per se positively impacts corporate performance; in contrast, the dominance of male directors hinders firm performance significantly.
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Horizontal strategy in a diversified corporation
… a horizontal strategy. Executing this kind of corporate strategy is very difficult in the real world. However, if the firm could establish a solid infrastructure to implement a horizontal strategy, it would be a sustainable competitive advantage that could not be easily imitated. In fact, there …
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Audit committee, corporate governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002
… of much debate. This thesis utilises a unique corporate governance dataset that covers both the pre- and post-SOX periods and attempts to first, investigate what changes have there been in corporate governance practices since SOX was implemented, and second, to analyse the consequences of any …
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Development of Sustainability Framework for the Gold Mining Industry in Myanmar
… include eight environmental-related, six corporate governance-related, and seven social-related. The proposed guideline framework would enable Myanmar gold mining companies to gain the trust of its stakeholders and to enhance their long-term corporate value.<br/>
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Accounting for Sustainable Livelihoods: The dialectic between Fairtrade and Biodiversity
… A theoretical framework was developed that incorporates the labour theory of value along with the science of agroecology to detail the challenges to the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. Fairtrade fails to deliver sustainable livelihoods at the level of the coffee co-operative. …
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… the model can be enriched to increase the value-creating potential of company law. Chapter 1 introduces the research questions in light of the overall leitmotiv of the dissertation: what do we mean by efficiency? Chapter 2 outlines the methodology of the thesis. Chapter 3 assesses the …
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The role of Management Accounting Practices in shaping efficiency in a Colombian Utility Conglomerate
… that in CUC efficiency is constructed more as a corporate value exercised through management accounting practices rather than being an exclusive indicator calculated through input/output relationships. The analysis unfolds how CUC creatively undertook the changes and adjustments to enable a …
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Hydroelectric power station : Nigerleq
… is to determine if the project promises enough value to proceed to the next stage of development. The Nigerleq area has previously been investigated and found financially unviable, but with rising diesel cost, increased focus on sustainability and new flow and discharge measurements available, …
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Wirksamkeit von Managemententscheidungen bei Veränderung des Unternehmensumfelds bei mittelständischen Auftragsfertigern im Maschinenbau
… to take long term decisions which support corporate value. Especially medium-sized engineering companies who operate a make-to-order business are strongly affected by changes in the environment because such changes even enforce inherent difficulties of this kind of business, like high …
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Unleashing knowledge in oil retailing : integrated knowledge sharing within the Japan Energy Corporation, retail marketing group
… increasing their intangible assets and corporate value. In spite of possessing traditional knowledge exchange systems characterized by face-to-face interactions in local communities, majority of Japanese organizations have been unaware of the significance of their knowledge assets. …
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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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Attracting Applicants with Corporate Social Responsibility: A Social Dilemma Perspective
<p>There has been a surging interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in society, and business leaders perceive that CSR is essential in business operations. However, CSR can lead to unsatisfactory outcomes when not appropriately understood or practiced. Therefore, I conducted two studies …