26 articles in this issue
Seungjae Shin, Burak Eksioglu
Ten years have passed since Wal-Marts public announcement about its RFID technology adoption plan in 2003. Some large competitors of Wal-Mart in the U.S. retail industry jumped on the trend of RFID technology adoption. However, there has been a slowdown o... see more
Ilona Shiller, Ishmael Radikoko
This study tests the validity of the weak-form EMH on the Canadian TSX equity market using seven TSX daily index returns. Quantitatively, a variety of statistical tests is used to test for the randomness of return series. Results of the common statistical... see more
Michel M. Koekemoer
A South African consumer who owns a motor vehicle will need to have it serviced at a motor vehicle service dealership. The level of service experienced by consumers is not always satisfactory, leaving the consumer dissatisfied and wanting to complain abou... see more
Jamal Elbaz, Issam Laguir
Several researchers have reported that family firms tend to show a CSR orientation in their activities which might increase their performance (Chrisman et al., 2005; O'Boyle et al., 2010). In Morocco, many studies have focused on the integration of CSR pr... see more
Maria Ulici, Anissa Chaibi, Christophe Rault
We develop a VAR-GARCH approach to investigate shock and volatility transmissions between bank stock returns in Romania during the 2007-2009 international financial crisis. Our findings provide evidence of significant shock and volatility transmissions be... see more
Ramiz Ur Rehman, Junrui Zhang, Rizwan Ali
The study explores the relationship between firm performance, macro-economic variables, and firm size. The analysis was conducted over a period of 12 years, for seven non-financial sectors of Pakistan economy, considering an emerging economy. The analysis... see more
Laurent Scaringella, Rola Chami Malaeb
This study focuses on major issues of talent management (TM) with respect to knowledge management (KM). Under the effect of the economic paradigm shift toward a knowledge-based economy, multiple human changes occurred and new challenges related to human c... see more
Amelia S. Carr
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of technology and organizations change in service delivery to meet customer expectations in the movie rental industry. This research provides a review of relevant literature and presents a theoretical frame... see more
Alina Chircu, Eldar Sultanow, Satya Prakash Saraswat
Todays healthcare environments are characterized by a variety of products, services, and associated data and information that are transferred across many healthcare sector participants. Pharmaceutical supply chains in particular are one example of fragmen... see more
Haeyoung Ryu, Soo-Joon Chae
This study in the Korean context investigates the effect of book-tax conformity on the use of accruals. In a sample of 4,331 Korean firms, we divide total accruals into book-tax accruals and book-only accruals. Book-tax accruals are defined as those that ... see more
Theuns G. Pelser
Strategic management is inter alia a process of managing a companys relationship with the environment. A critical concern of this discipline is optimising returns to the companys stakeholders over the long term. This means sustaining performance by balanc... see more
Ken Zula
This paper describes a study to determine best practice guidelines for employee wellness programming amongst organizations and/or employers. A sample of convenience (n = 200) from a local human resource management association was surveyed via e-mail with ... see more
Li (Isabella) Liu, Sajjad M. Jasimuddin, David Faulkner
Innovation is the route to competitive advantage for a firm. In this regard, strategic alliances, particularly international joint venture (IJV), is an effective vehicle for creating innovation capabilities. This paper attempts to explore innovation activ... see more
Chiraz Ben Ali, Cedric Lesage
Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson & Reeb, 2003) and differ considerably from non-family firms with regard to corporate governance. However, despite their difference, family businesses have received relatively little re... see more
Kyung Jin Park, Joohyun Lim, Ki Young Kim
In this study, we examined how income shifting performs among affiliates in a business group to maximize the benefits of the entire business group in terms of minimizing the tax burden, with a particular focus on the direction of income shifting between a... see more
Massoud Metghalchi, John Kagochi, Linda A. Hayes
We apply several popular technical trading rules in the normal way and a contrarian way to daily data of the Nairobi Stock Index from 9/12/2006 to 4/18/2013. The contrarian usage of popular technical trading rules implies that when a technical trading ind... see more
Nour Albuloushi, Eiman Algharaballi
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of national culture on supply chain coordination. It investigates whether uncertainty avoidance (UA) influences information sharing (IS) trust and personal interest (PI), which are the main elements th... see more
Ilaria Dalla Pozza, Lionel Texier
The goal of this paper is to investigate the implementation of multichannel strategies in the service sector and to understand objectives, difficulties faced by companies, synergies and competitive effects among channels, and future areas of investment. T... see more
Morten Kousgaard Larsen, Jacob Lange Nissen, Rainer Lueg, Christian Schmaltz, Joachim Rojkjaer Thorhauge
The Danish Banking sector faces increasing requirements regarding regulation and profitability, which especially threatens small and medium sized banks. This study analyzes whether the successful business model of Handelsbanken (The Handelsbanken Way) can... see more
Khalid El Badraoui, Jamal Ouenniche
This paper examines the impact of convertible debt design on the long-run stock price performance of the issuing firms in France. More specifically, we divide French convertible bonds (CBs) into three categories; namely, debt-like, mixed, and equity-like ... see more
Francois Toerien, Matthew Marcus
We examine the effect of South African taxes, specifically the secondary tax on companies (STC) and the dividends tax (DT) that replaced it, as well as capital gains tax (CGT), on investor measures of expected return and firm value. The discussion, findin... see more
Rey Dang, Duc Khuong Nguyen, Linh-Chi Vo
n this article, we conduct a longitudinal study of womens progress on French corporate boards of directors. We particularly focus on the extent to which women directors have circumvented the glass ceiling. Using a sample of SBF 120 companies over a 10-yea... see more
Mohamed Arouri, Frederic Teulon
Despite the increasing attention to ethical investments, the empirical studies on Islamic indices are scarce. The main goal of this article is to investigate whether Dow Jones Islamic Index 100 Titans (DJI100) delivers persistent performance. Using the Ca... see more
Saidou Baba Oumar, Josue Mbonigaba
This paper assesses the performance of the Cameroon Water Corporation (CWC) in delivering services after four decades of existence (1967-2013) and relates that performance to organization theories. It uses secondary data on services provision and primary ... see more
Ibrahim Fatnassi, Zied Ftiti, Habib Hasnaoui
We analyze the reactions of the returns of four European stock markets to sovereign credit rating changes by Fitch, Moodys, and Standard and Poors (S&P) during the period from June 2008 to June 2012 using panel regression equations. We find that (i) upgra... see more
Sarah Kate Mackinnon, Ryan Kruger
This paper builds on Prayag and van Rensburgs (2006) study that recognised the returns that can be generated by acting on changes in consensus recommendations on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). It identifies factors that influence analysts to revis... see more