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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"growth options"”.
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A framework of growth options through diversification among shipping agencies in South Africa
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Technology: Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Two Essays on Asset Prices
… chapters. The first chapter examines the role of growth options on stock return continuation. Growth options are both difficult to value and risky. Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam (1998) argue that higher momentum profits earned by high market-to-book firms stem from investors' higher …
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Managerial judgement and the real options approach in investment appraisal process: evidence from the British automotive components manufacturers.
… has been conducted on the role of the Real Options Approach (ROA) and Managerial Judgement (MJ) in the IAP. In an ideal world, prior to making Strategic Investment Decisions (SIDs), a detailed analysis of the benefits generated by the investments would be conducted. This would cover …
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Development of the Northern Growth Corridor in Cape Town: towards a more sustainable city
… current high levels of urbanisation, population growth and in-migration that many metropolitan areas of the country are experiencing. Cape Town is experiencing significantly high levels of growth which is accompanied by increasing levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality. This growth is …
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Equity valuation of currently unprofitable Australian companies : the impact of distress, investment intensity, and accounting conservatism
… the valuation weight on measures of potential growth options. With companies that exhibit a high level of accounting conservatism, cumulative accounting reserves have a higher influence on equity value. These results suggest that investors do not consider currently unprofitable companies as a …
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Equity valuation of currently unprofitable Australian companies : the impact of distress, investment intensity, and accounting conservatism
… the valuation weight on measures of potential growth options. With companies that exhibit a high level of accounting conservatism, cumulative accounting reserves have a higher influence on equity value. These results suggest that investors do not consider currently unprofitable companies as a …
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Locating the Growth Paradigm through Canadian Politics
This paper investigates the commitment to growth in Canada, using political platforms to answer two questions: how common is the growth paradigm – which presents economic growth as desirable, imperative, and limitless – across the political spectrum, and, where it appears, how does it work? To …
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The Impact of Information Uncertainty on Stock Price Performance and Managers' Equity Financing Decision
… The evidence confirms my conjecture that both growth options and information asymmetry are attributes to the information uncertainty. The empirical findings show that stocks with higher information uncertainty have lower future stock returns after controlling for information asymmetry and other …
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Essays on corporate innovation
… the option to wait. In contrast, the strategic growth option framework shows that uncertainty may encourage investment in growth options since the value of the option to wait is drastically eroded due to competition and an initial investment can confer greater capacity to take advantage of …
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Incidence and Costs of Pinhole Leak Corrosion and Corporate Cost of Capital Borrowing
… findings offer strong support for firms with few growth options, large, and of low quality having more long-term debt in their capital structure. There was, however, no clear support for the impact of macroeconomic variables on debt maturity as some variables were not statistically significant.
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Essays on reverse leveraged buy-outs
… free cash flow and capital expenditures, while growth options are at competitive levels. These factors in the presence of low ownership concentration suggest the existence of overinvestment. </p> <p>Increased leverage in the private period leads to significant declines in free cash flow and …
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Teacher Attitudes Toward The Henrico County Public Schools Professional Growth Plan for Licensed Professional Personnel
… ownership in such planning and to be provided options for their professional development. The primary focus of this study is a professional growth plan which includes options that are designed to provide opportunities for teachers' continuous growth; assist teachers with instructional planning; …
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Analysis of the Competitiveness of Hungarian Companies from the Perspective of Internationalisation
… 2019), factors of a successful international growth of a small company (Szanyi-Gyenes, 2017), later on the management and the management’s attitude in the company’s success (Szanyi-Gyenes & Almási, 2021), future competitiveness aspects of domestic companies from the internationalisation …