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Showing 1 to 20 of 372 for “"firm performance"”.
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Digitization of Financial Services and Firm Performance
… whether and how digitization efforts can help firms improve their performance. We conduct two studies each answering key questions from a different angle. Study 1 starts with the increasing digital investments of FIs and investigates whether FIs can gain positive returns from their investment …
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Effect of executive compensation on firm performance
… equity-based CEO pay is positively related to firm performance and risk-taking. Both stock price and operating performance as well as firm's riskiness increase in the pay-performance sensitivities (PPS) provided by CEO stock options and stock holdings. PPS can explain stock returns better as an …
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IT investments and firm performance across economies
… positive relationship between IT investments and firm performance. But the results vary across firms and performance measures. Evidence indicates that IT resource allocations, in the form of investment in specific IT asset classes and IT capabilities of the firm, may play an important role in …
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The impact of Islamic Debt on firm performance
… to examine the impact of Islamic debt on firm value and firm financial performance by observing two groups, namely Malaysian firms and Indonesian firms. The study in particular considers (i) the impact of Islamic debt on firm value and firm financial performance, (ii) the Islamic debt …
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Three Essays On Interfirm Interdependence And Firm Performance
… examines the structure of interdependencies that firms are subjected to within a platform-based ecosystem and its implications for firm performance. Two theoretical themes emerge from this dissertation: (1) a firm’s interdependence with other actors in the ecosystem matters both for its …
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Related Party Transaction, Firm Performance and Institutional Ownership
… the impact of related party transactions on a firm’s operating performance and market-based performance, as well as the impact of institutional ownership on the use of related party transactions. Using a sample of 1218 deals from S&P1500 firms from 2007 to 2018, we propose and examine three …
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Environmental attributes, strategy-making comprehensiveness and firm performance
A key element that enables a firm to achieve better performance, the strategy-making process is of great interest to both researchers and practitioners. However, the bulk of past research has focused on the process alone and has reached few consistent conclusions. Recently, researchers have started …
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Corporate governance, conservatism and firm performance: Evidence from China
… and supervisory board on conservatism and firm performance, respectively, and the benefits of conservatism on performance. In addition, this thesis investigates whether the effectiveness of firms’ governance on conservatism and firm performance is influenced by ownership concentration and …
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Essays on Vertical Integration, Inventory Efficiency and Firm Performance
… to the link between, on the one hand, how a firm’s supply chain is organized and, on the other, how good its financial and stock market performance is. Study I examines the relationship between the degree of vertical integration and financial performance. Study II links the degree of vertical …
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Territorial capital and firm performance: evidence from Italian regions
… in the form of territorial capital, influences firm performance in diverse sectors, across different geographical areas of Italy, contributing to endogenous economic development. The notion of territorial capital conceived as a mix of tangible and intangible local resources accumulated in a …
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Market orientation and firm performance in Ghana's telecommunications industry
… industry, and to assess its relationship to performance. This was necessitated by the fact that, in-spite of the superfluity of literature on market orientation and its relationship to performance in developed economies and a few on developing nations such as Ghana, there are hardly any …
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Emerging Capabilities and Firm Performance in the Cloud Computing Environment
… is to analyze which capabilities are driving the performance of software firms in today’s cloud-computing environment by drawing upon the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. What is the optimum spending across the primary firm capabilities (e.g., service delivery, R&D, marketing and sales) to …
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Corporate governance, firm performance, and executive compensation : evidence from China
… among corporate governance mechanism, firm performance, and executive compensation within Chinese publicly listed firms. The corporate governance structure in China is a unique combination of the Anglo-American model and the German system by including a board of director and a …
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL REFORMS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS
… between changes in financial markets and firm-level performance in the real economy. The first chapter studies the impact of foreign bank deregulation on domestic firms' credit access and real outcomes in China, using an extensive firm-level data set from the manufacturing census. …
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Extended Stakeholder Orientation: Influence on Innovation Orientation and Firm Performance
… interactions and ongoing mutual impact on firm activities involving essential stakeholders are fundamental and frequent. While other views of stakeholder theory place more emphasis on stakeholders such as suppliers, community and the environment, the essential stakeholders represent a core …
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The Effect of Corporate Governance on Firm Performance in Jordan
… in the effect of corporate governance on firm performance. The majority of research concerning corporate governance and its effect on firm performance has been undertaken in developed countries and markets, particularly the UK and the US, but relatively little evidence is provided in the …
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Human Resource Systems, Flexibility, and Firm Performance in Turbulent Environments
… require data from multiple sources within the firm, and the response rate for the questionnaire providing data for the flexibility and environmental turbulence constructs was insufficient to conduct the proposed analyses. However, the data obtained regarding HRM systems allowed for exploratory …
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