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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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Capital structure, profitability and firm value: panel evidence of listed firms in Kenya
Kodongo, Odongo; Mokoaleli-Mokoteli, Thabang; Maina, Leonard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
leverage significantly, and negatively, affects the profitability of listed firms in Kenya. However, leverage has no effect on … suggest that asset tangibility, sales growth and firm size are important determinants of profitability. Surprisingly, asset … tangibility consistently has a negative relationship with profitability. For small firms, our results indicate that sales growth …
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From state to market revisited: more empirical evidence on the efficiency of public (and privately-owned) enterprises
Mühlenkamp, Holger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
For several decades public enterprises have been criticised for their poor economic performance. Many economists take it as “conventional wisdom” that publicly owned enterprises are inefficient by their very nature. This seemed to be proved by what is probably the most cited survey...
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Business Owners’ Preferences in Marketing Practices and their Impact on Firm Performance
Ghouri, AM; Saleem, F; Malik, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This short paper is the extended part of Ghouri, et al. (2011) study. This paper presents the finding about the owners of restaurant and catering businesses marketing practices. This study showed their mindset about the marketing practices. The findings suggest that owners of restaurants and...
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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Results from Greek Firms
Toudas, Kanellos; Karathanassis, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we construct a Governance Index for a sample of Greek companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange. We then classify firms, using each firm governance index, into three governance portfolios. Furthermore, the Fama and French model, extended to include a momentum variable, is...
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Firm age and performance
Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
As firms grow older, their profitability seems to decline. We first document this phenomenon and show that it is very …
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Corporate Responses to Currency Depreciations: Evidence from Indonesia
Agustinus, Prasetyantoko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the impact of macro fluctuation on firm’s balance sheet to understand firm’s net worth as well as the corporate distress probability. We argue that debt policies could be pro-cyclical, since it enhances corporate distress risk when currency depreciation comes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835641
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Determinants of Corporate Performance of Listed Companies in Indonesia
Agustinus, Prasetyantoko; Rachmadi, Parmono - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
firm profitability, but it is not related to market capitalization. It means that firm size is matter on the fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837326
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Hybrid Strategy and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Individual and Technological Ambidexterity
Mahr, Ferdinand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is discussed whether hybrid strategies are beneficial or detrimental to a firm’s performance, because hybrid strategies lead to organizational tensions that arise from the simultaneous pursuit of distinct strategic activities. However, existing studies on the relationship between hybrid...
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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
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