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Corporate governance and value addition efficiency of corporate resources in Thailand
Mamun, Syed Abdulla Al; Badir, Yuosre - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 4 (2012) 3, pp. 238-257
This paper examines the impact of board of directors (BOD) on corporate performance in value addition efficiency (VAE) of resources in an emerging economy namely Thailand in the context of post Asian financial crisis 1997/1998 period. This research uses data of top, as per market capitalisation,...
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Corporate social disclosure to stakeholders and its effect on firm performance: the case of some African emergent countries
Guidara, Achraf; Othman, Hakim Ben - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 4 (2012) 3, pp. 258-271
This work is aimed at examining the effect of corporate social disclosure of African companies to the stakeholders on firm performance. In this respect, some annual reports of 103 African companies have been analysed, using a coding instrument inspired from the work of Wiseman (1982) as well as...
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Importer commitment drivers and their impact on performance: a resource-based perspective
Saleh, Md. Abu; Ali, M. Yunus; Julian, Craig C. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 6 (2013) 2, pp. 123-140
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a dominant role in emerging economies. However, most studies on buyer-seller relationship behaviour have focussed on the larger firms from developed countries with little attention being given to SMEs' import behaviour, especially those from...
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Diversification Strategy and Firm Performance: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms
Purkayastha, Saptarshi - In: Global Business Review 14 (2013) 1, pp. 1-23
While many scholars have examined the business group affiliation–performance relationship, very few have examined the role that industry and diversification (related versus unrelated) strategy plays in this focal relationship (Carney et al., 2011). I provide empirical evidence that the...
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Role of organisational culture on performance measurement practice: the case of Malaysian manufacturing firms
Mohamad, Muslim Har Sani; Ali, Fazlin; Amir, Amizawati Mohd - In: Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 3 (2013) 4, pp. 297-318
This study aims to examine the influence of the competing values on firm performance mediated by diverse performance measurement system. With a different focus to that of Henri's (2006) concept of dominant culture, we argue that in control dominant firms, flexibility and diverse performance...
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Exploring the impact of international human resource management practices on firm performance
Naidu, Suwastika; Chand, Anand - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 1, pp. 19-33
In the recent decade, the global tourism industry is showing trends of increasing visitor arrivals in the developing countries. On one hand, this implies that more tourist dollar is coming into small island developing states; on the other hand, it means that there will be more need for...
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Complementarities between IT and Organizational Structure: The Role of Corporate Exploration and Exploitation
Mahr, Ferdinand; Kretschmer, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...
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SERVICE COMPETITION, FIRM PERFORMANCE AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MANUFACTURING: EVIDENCE FROM FIRM-LEVEL DATA IN CHINA
LIN, LEI; WU, GUISHENG - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 10 (2013) 04, pp. 1350010-1
developing countries such as China, this empirical study has two purposes. The first is to investigate the impact of service … from manufacturing firms in China in 2006, this paper employs a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach with … supported by data. This can be explained by the factors such as China's initial resource endowment, low-level stage of the …
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The Joint Impact of Supply Chain Integration and Quality Management on the Performance of Pork Processing Firms in China
Han, Jiqin; Omta, S.W.F.; Trienekens, Jacques H. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 10 (2007) 02
It is widely acknowledged that competition is no longer between individual firms, but between supply chains. A number of studies have indicated that supply chain integration and quality management have become essential to obtain competitive advantage. The present study tests the relationships...
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Imitation or innovation to enhance the performance: an empirical investigation of 258 Chinese firms
Liu, Dawei - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2011) 4, pp. 377-395
performance in seven different industries in China. Firstly, we delineate and distinguish the concepts of innovation and imitation …
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