25 articles in this issue
Omar Farooq
The purpose of this paper is to document the performance of analyst recommendations for biotechnology firms listed at the Copenhagen Stock Exchange during the period between 2001 and 2010. Our results show that analysts are able to reveal value rele... see more
Sajjad M. Jasimuddin, Munir Maniruzzaman
Resource nationalism is building momentum across oil-endowed countries. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have to effectively address the emerging scenarios that are caused by the resurgence in resource nationalism. This is clearly a diserable focus that ... see more
Johannes P. van der Weshuizen, Martin West
The purpose of this research focused on integration and alignment of maintenance and logistics functions in a large ERP system in an oil and gas company to demonstrate how cross-functional integration can improve operations. A design science approach has ... see more
Vusani Moyo
Empirical studies on the impact of regulation on the financial policies of banks have documented that unconstrained forward-looking banks with sufficient franchise value build and actively maintain capital buffers. This financing behaviour thus relegates ... see more
Lamya Kermiche, Philippe Dupuy
According to general asset pricing theory, options should reward their holders for the systematic risk they are bearing. In this paper, we study the returns of foreign exchange options. We find that, by sorting options according to the distance of their i... see more
Jaegun Lee, Moon-Goo Huh
This study addresses how external knowledge sources affect product innovation by examining innovating Korean manufacturers surveyed by STEPI in 2012. The external knowledge source of the company is classified in STI mode (science-technology-innovation) on... see more
Arif Mohammad Arshad, Jie Wang, Qin Su
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between total quality management (TQM), service innovation and firm performance in the Pakistan’s service industry. An empirical survey was performed and there were 190 participants from financial s... see more
Tarek Miloud
Using high frequency Euronext Paris data, the paper examines the market microstructure trading characteristics of venture backed initial public offerings (IPOs) in the French market. Previous North American market studies approve the role played by ventur... see more
Nico Schutte, Nicolene Barkhuizen
The main objective of this research was to determine the interactive relationship between human resource management (HRM) professional competencies and background variables of employees in diverse South African work place context. A Human Resource profess... see more
Won-Jun Lee, Seungjae Shin
Smartphone addiction is a new phenomenon when a smartphone becomes a necessity in our daily life. This study explores smartphone addiction drivers and their results. Four factors such as ease of use, emotional lift, preference of social interaction, and f... see more
Sorah Park
This study investigates the differential effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) on unsophisticated individual investors and sophisticated institutional investors. I examine the relationship between abnormal stock returns around quarterly earning... see more
Ewert P. J. Kleynhans
This article applied regressions and panel data analysis to determine how micro-economic spillovers enhance the competitiveness of firms and industries. What made this study unique was that it considered the interactions between various spillover factors ... see more
Kim Viljoen, M. Roberts-Lombard
This article has been retracted and now appears in the Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR), Issue 32.3. For more information, please visit: http://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/JABR/article/view/9669
Dean E. Frost
This empirical study explored the development of implicit leadership theories among 16 to 18 year-old students in secondary schools prior to any formal leadership training or full-time employment. Students from governance, athletics, clubs, performa... see more
Chris van Heerden
The traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) suggests that the minimum return required by an investor should be equal to the return of a risk-free asset (Reilly & Brown, 2003), which should be stable (Reilly & Brown, 2006), not influenced by externa... see more
Nayef Al-Shammari, Said Al-Halaq, Dhuha Al-Shammari
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Hyun-Ah Lee
This study aims to verify the usefulness of the tax avoidance proxy developed by Desai and Dharmapala (2006) in the setting where accounting-tax alignment is relatively high and aggressive tax planning is restricted. By using a large set of firms in Korea... see more
Myungki Cha, Kookjae Hwang, Youngjun Yeo
In this study, we investigate the relationship between credit ratings and audit opinions of financially distressed companies impending bankruptcy. Using Korean publicly-held firms for the years 2007 through 2014, we analyze 97 bankrupt companies with cred... see more
Seung Yin Ha, Gun Hee Lee, Bum Seok Kim
This study examines the efficiency of Korean manufacturing SMEs through data envelopment analysis. We divide business processes into support activities (e.g., business management and product planning) and primary activities (e.g., production and sales and... see more
Amir Ikram, Qin Su, Muhammad Asif Sadiq
The empirical study was conducted to examine the technical efficiency of SMEs in the export-oriented surgical instruments cluster of Sialkot, Pakistan. Data was collected through survey questionnaire from 70 SMEs, listed at Census of Manufacturing Industr... see more
Ji-Young Ahn
This study examines the possibility that the quality of corporate governance has effects on the dynamic relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance. Building on the dynamic view of CEO pay and firm performance and corporate governance liter... see more
Elisabetta Mafrolla, Felice Matozza, Eugenio D'Amico
Private firms adopt Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices voluntarily. Using results of a survey that involved 78 respondents, we investigate the adoption of ERM practices in Italian private corporations and question whether ERM adoption is affected ... see more
Sanghyuk Byun, Youngjoo Lee, Ohjin Kwon
This study examines the effect of the abnormal pay dispersion on earnings management. Prior studies find that pay dispersion among top executives affect firm performance and executive turnover. We expect that abnormal pay dispersion among top executives a... see more
Jianling Wang, Mi Zhou, Lijun Lei, Weiguo Fan
This paper attempts to investigate the relation between pyramidal structure and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting quality and the effect of political interference on the relation. Based on 1388 Chinese A-share listed firms during 2010-2012, ... see more
Paul Moon Sub Choi, Jinhwan Oh, Changsu Ko
This study examines the relationship between the size of a country and its “take-off” for economic development. We find that most countries which experienced economic upheavals in the past decades are relatively small in terms of area. Specifically, take-... see more