Purpose: This paper aims to understand the relationships of complementary specialization, cognitive trust, affective trust, tie strength and similarity with group formation intention. Design/methodology/approach: The data have been collected from 30 management students from a batch of 110...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the presence of independent board directors on financial performance in India. Design/methodology/approach: This study used panel regression models on large listed Indian firms to investigate the impact on financial performance...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study reverse logistics network design in order to better facilitate the location of factories, online retailers, and the third party logistics in the context of e‐commerce. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on types of third party collections of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the disclosure practices of market risk by 30 banks in ten countries of different size and geographic distribution (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Greece and Cyprus). Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The “business‐risk” relationship across countries does not fit exactly into a “model” nor does it have a pure palliative effect. Following this idea, the purpose of this research is to reinforce a comparative study on small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) handling both...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of a business failure prediction model on a sample of small and medium‐sized firms with head offices located in the region of Castilla y León (Spain), in order to prove the significance of non‐financial information on the...

Purpose – The purpose of the current study was first to identify the motives for mergers, and second to examine the effect of mergers on the systematic risk of bidder firms in the airline industry. Design/methodology/approach – To evaluate the effect of mergers in the systematic risk, two...

Purpose – This study focuses on the evaluation of the introduction of international corporate governance codes such as Combined Code (UK) and King Report III (SA) in the Greek publicly listed enterprises. This research is based on a case study analysis of six publicly listed enterprises (three...