21 articles in this issue
Issam Laguir, Jamal Elbaz
This paper examines the CSR practices of family firms listed in the French financial market and distinguishes between those managed by a family member CEO and those managed by a competent external CEO. We adopt an exploratory approach and begin with a con... see more
John J. Williams, Alfred E. Seaman
The results of studies into the effects of enhanced governance structures have been equivocal and there is virtually no literature on the performance effects of individual managers, such as the professional accountant in practice. This paper reports the r... see more
Yasser Buchana, Visvanathan Naicker
Managerial decision-making has always involved the use of numerous distinct information resources. Modern managerial decision-making processes require a wealth of information that is enhanced and transformed into knowledge in order to take effective actio... see more
Job Dubihlela, Osayuwamen Omoruyi
Supply chain management (SCM) is vital for companies to achieve their goals and for information sharing. Operations managers are faced with many barriers in implementing SCM, particularly in developing economies such as South Africa. It is essential for m... see more
Lijie Li, Laurent Scaringella
This paper aims to examine the elements employed in television advertising, which affect consumer attitudes toward advertised products and brands. 384 young Chinese responded to a survey questionnaire. This paper finds that celebrity endorsement positivel... see more
Amine Lahiani, Khaled Guesmi
This paper examines the price volatility and hedging behavior of commodity futures indices and stock market indices. We investigate the weekly hedging strategies generated by return-based and range-based asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) pr... see more
Hyewon Paik, YunSung Koh
This paper examines whether firms ownership structure in Korea changes managers' behavior to meet or beat market expectations. We examine whether managers manage earnings upward and/or guide analyst expectations downward to avoid negative earnings surpris... see more
Mohamed Kadria, Mohamed Safouane Ben Aissa
In this paper, we tried to examine whether the implementation of inflation targeting (IT) monetary policy and its discipline character allows reducing the budget deficit in emerging countries. To do this, we used the propensity score matching methodology ... see more
Thamna S. Al Afari, Hossam M. Abu Elanain
This study examined the direct and indirect effects of different dimensions of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behaviors, and turnover intention in the context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) healthcare sector. A questionnaire was a... see more
Olga Chapa, Yong J. Wang
Conventional understanding of pre-employment relocation is incomplete due to the disconnection between human resources managers and pre-employment individuals. This study attempts to empirically examine pre-employment relocation preferences of upcoming yo... see more
Kyungho Kim, Hyunwoo Lim
This study explores how organizational learning and host country government corruption influenced outward foreign direct investment by Korean textile firms between 1986 and 1995, given that foreign direct investment decisions are not made in isolation fro... see more
Abdelbari El Khamlichi, Kabir Sarkar, Mohamed Arouri, Frederic Teulon
Despite the increasing attention to ethical investments, the empirical studies on Islamic indices are scarce. Our article aims to contribute to the empirical literature by exploring the efficiency of these indices and their potential for diversification i... see more
Hind El Makrini, Anissa Chaibi
Research on exporting frequently points the role of management commitment in the export performance of the firm. This article reviews the conceptual, methodological, and empirical insights gained from a systematic analysis of 65 studies conducted on this ... see more
Lamya Kermiche
Since the seminal Black and Scholes model was introduced in the 1970s, researchers and practitioners have been continuously developing new models to enhance the original. All these models aim to ease one or more of the Black and Scholes assumptions, but t... see more
Christopher Ifeacho, Harold Ngalawa
This study investigates the impact of bank-specific variables and selected macroeconomic variables on the South African banking sector for the period 1994-2011 using the capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity (CAMEL) model of... see more
Jill K. Hayter
This paper examines whether controlling for the type of career interruption has different effects on mens and womens wages. One argument for the persistence of the gender wage gap is that previously researchers have used poor measures of experience to est... see more
C. Catherine Chiang, Yilun Shi, Lin Zhao
In this paper, we investigate the relation between stock returns and R&D spending under different market conditions. Our empirical evidence suggests that investors response to R&D activities varies according to stock market status. Following the conventio... see more
Stefano Pace
Religiosity affects various aspects of consumer behavior. This research distinguishes two dimensions: Intrinsic religiosity is lived per se, as a personal and intimate value; extrinsic religiosity is an instrument to attain personal goals by connecting wi... see more
Emna Boumediene, Salem Lotfi Boumediene, Olfa Nafti
In this article we look at the possible relation between the IAS-IFRS, which promotes a present value, and earnings management enhanced by the application of these standards. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the adoption of IAS-IFRS stand... see more
Sabri Boubaker, Taher Hamza
The present study analyzes the short- and long-term performance of UK financial acquiring firms by examining a sample of 40 takeovers over the period 19962007. In particular, it investigates i) the short- and long-term stock return performance of these ac... see more
Chun-Sung Huang, Chun-Kai Huang, Knowledge Chinhamu
It has been well documented that the empirical distribution of daily logarithmic returns from financial market variables is characterized by excess kurtosis and skewness. In order to capture such properties in financial data, heavy-tailed and asymmetric d... see more