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performance in Pakistan through the lens of institutional theory. Based on a pragmatic approach, this study has collected data … practices after the creation of Pakistan as a separate state. Finally, this study suggests that the development of accounting … paper helps Pakistan's regulatory institutions such as the SECP (Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan) and SBP …
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registered firms located in the emerging market Pakistan. The results indicate that entrepreneurial strategy, network ties and …
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In this paper, we investigate whether a firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives could affect its financial performance. We specifically investigate the firm’s capital allocation efficiency as a moderating channel affecting their performance. We employ a comprehensive sample of...
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Carbon emissions and agency costs can have an impact on firms’ financial performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the combined and gradual effects of these two factors on firms’ performance. We explore the separate and combined effects of carbon emissions and agency costs on...
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This paper aims to investigate the perceptions of Iraqi medium-sized enterprises’ board members on how board information technology governance mechanisms affect their companies’ performance with the help of IT capabilities as a mediator. The study is based on a survey of 223 board members...
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We investigate the effects of adopting enterprise risk management (ERM) on the performance and risks of European publicly listed insurance firms. Using a dataset for 24 years, we report new results which show that ERM adopters realize significant ERM premiums after controlling for other...
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M&A performance is a multifaceted, compound construct with no overarching factor that captures all different dimensions. This paper examines the concept of acquisition performance and proposes a model that links firm-level factors and transaction parameters with firms’ short-term and long-term...
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of Investor Relations (IR) in the performance of companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. The study is motivated by the findings in the literature that investor relations may boost information disclosure, analyst following,...
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This paper applies a meta-analysis method to investigate the moderating impact of political stability on the relationship between ownership identities and firm performance in the Middle Eastern countries (i.e., the Arab World). The study collected 105 correlations from 46 previous studies with...
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This paper identifies whether there was a performance difference among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) led by men and by women in Vietnam during the period 2005-2013 and aims to provide explanations for the differences, if any, in various performance indicators. The paper adopts a...
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