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Showing 1 to 20 of 3990 for “"firm"”.
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Developing SMEs through large firm-small firm linkages
… and a non-conducive business environment, large firms in Kenya's motor vehicle industIy are reluctant to outsource voluntarily from local small finns, and that when they do, relations appear to be arms-length and adversarial. The research also reveals that in the Kenyan environment, contrary to …
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Eco Innovation and Firm Performance in OECD Countries: Moderating Effects of Firm Age and Firm Size
… for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) firms, focusing on the boundary conditions shaping the EI-firm performance (FP) link. Although the Porter Hypothesis (PH) predicts a “win‑win” competitiveness gain from EI, evidence remains mixed. Using 158,880 OECD firm‑year observations …
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Essays on Firm Boundaries and Firm Organization in Transition countries
… on organizational decisions within and across firms. Understanding such decisions through both empirical studies and theory is highly important. It may enable us to understand the microeconomic roots of macroeconomic patterns. This thesis conducts at the empirical analysis of organizational …
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Firm Finance and Bankruptcy on Empirical Study Using Korean Firm-Level Data
… costs are inversely related to the size of firm. These results serve as legal parameters of the model and are crucial to study the optimal firm finance."
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Incentives and Firm Behaviors
… of such decisions to the financial health of firms and the macro economy. A firm is incentivized by the value investors place on its operations; while employees, particularly the management team, is incentivized by the private benefits the firm gives them. Understanding the impact of such …
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Firm pricing and entry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Audit Firm Rotation, Audit Firm Tenure, and Audit Committee Support in Accounting Disputes
… reporting. Implementation of mandatory audit firm rotation that limits auditor tenure to reduce potential independence impairment has been discussed in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, and adopted in some non-U.S. jurisdictions. While audit firm rotation is expected to increase auditor …
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It’s Electric – The Impact of Voluntary Firm Electrical Sustainability Commitments on Firm Value
Firms pursue voluntary sustainability commitments that exceed the requirements of regulation, typically in response to requests from various stakeholders including external parties like employees or customers. Under the commonly held view of shareholder supremacy within the firm, such voluntary …
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The Effects of Firm Experience and Relational Resources on Firm Product Development Capabilities
… research is understanding the determinants of firm performance, and that product development capabilities have been shown to influence firm performance, the research question this dissertation attempts to answer is: what factors influence a firm's product development capabilities? Building on …
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Essays on Individual Judgment, Stakeholders and Firm Performance: Microfinance, Firm Reputation and Industry Competition
… making may have performance impact at the firm level. In the first essay, I explore how individual characteristics of microfinance recipients such as their personal strategy in managing work and family-related roles influences their investment decisions in their micro enterprises. In the …
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Governance mechanisms and firm characteristics
… or even whether, governance choices vary with firm characteristics. This thesis addresses the lack in empirical direction by investigating the discriminatory power of a fundamental firm variable, the price-to-book ratio (P/B), that is often applied in Australian and other studies to predict …
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Absorptive capacity of the firm
… capacity is a set of capabilities of the firm which enable it to recognise, acquire, assimilate and apply toward commercial purposes the technology and knowledge available in its external environment (Cohen and Levinthal (1990)). What are these capabilities? This thesis has three aims: to …
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Firm heterogeneity in international trade
… trade affects us all. It expands markets for firms to thrive and increases varieties to satisfy consumers. From waking up with a coffee grown on Brazilian trees to closing a light manufactured in China at night, our daily routines are riddled with products that can be provided by firms located …
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Big Data and Firm Risk
This paper investigates the impact of firm data collection and analysis of collected data on the riskiness of firm cash flows. I use a scraped data set of the third party resources loaded on firms’ websites as a measure of firm data collection and analysis practices. I find that firm use of less …
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Firm Dynamics under Industrial Policy
… whole vary with the attributes of the supported firms and with the nature of the supported industry? To answer this question, this thesis develops a model describing firm dynamics under government support in the form of tax credits and conducts simulation experiments while varying policy …
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Correlations in firm default behavior
… an attempt to better understand correlations in firm default. A review of contemporary research reveals several models with varying degrees of assumptions around firm default and how they relate to macroeconomic variables. More recent literature also makes use of a doubly stochastic assumption …
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Profiting From Globalization: Pro-Market Reforms, Firm Internationalization Strategy, and Firm Profitability In Developing Countries
… the relationship between pro-market reforms, firm internationalization strategy, and firm profitability in developing countries. I argue that pro-market reforms augment firm profitability because they increase the competitiveness of local markets, allowing firms to increase their market …
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Corporate internet reporting, firm characteristics, corporate governance and firm financial performance of Saudi listed companies
… relationship with some corporate governance and firm characteristics variables, and to determine the impact of CIR on firm financial performance. These associations are investigated by employing a quantitative method dependant on a multi-theoretical framework. The study uses a self-constructed …
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