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International trade in financial services
Webster, Allan; Hardwick, Philip - 2005
International trade in financial services is a topic of some importance both to the financial services sector itself and in international trade negotiations. Unfortunately, intrinsic problems in defining and measuring trade in services, combined with a lack of data in many countries, have made...
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441710
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Management accounting systems and organizational configuration: A life-cycle perspective
Moores, Ken; Yuen, Susana - 2001
This study adopts a configurational approach that captures possible variables (strategy, structure, leadership and decision-making styles) and their relationships with management accounting systems (MAS) from an organizational life-cycle perspective. Using Miller and Friesen's life-cycle model...
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Does corporate governance affect earnings quality: Preliminary evidence from Bangladesh
Houqe, Muhammad Nurual; van Zijl, Tony; Dunstan, Keitha; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether firm corporate governance practices have an effect on the quality of its publicly released financial information. Researchers carrying out earnings quality research usually relies on Dechow and Dichev (2002), Leuz et al (2003), Penman (2001) or Barton and Simko...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441708
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Corporate governance and company performance in Australia
Christensen, Jacqueline; Kent, Pamela; Steward, Jenny - 2009
This study tests whether the adoption of Australian best practice corporate governance recommendations have a positive or negative relation with financial performance measured by return on assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q. The governance mechanisms associated with increased ROA and Tobin's Q are the...
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The valuation accuracy of the price-earnings and price-book benchmark valuation methods
Cheng, C. S. Agnes; McNamara, Ray - 2000
This paper evaluates the valuation accuracy of the price-earnings (P/E), the price-book (P/B) and a combined price-earnings and price-book (P/E-P/B) benchmark valuation methods. Performance of the benchmark valuation methods relies on the definition of comparable firms. In this paper, comparable...
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Do accounting and finance tools serve governance?
Ariff, Mohamed; Ratnatunga, Janek - 2008
A brief review of recent literature on corporate governance is provided, which is then concluded with a proposed corporate governance framework as a starting point for further development. We propose that it is stakeholder concentration that determines the quality of corporate governance. Next...
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The impact of high Telecommunications costs on the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa
Ngobeni, Robson Mpande - 2009
This study provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are caused by high telecommunications costs within the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa. This study couldn’t have come at a better time considering the current turbulent economic circumstances around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447202
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Information internalisation in internationalising the firm
Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W. - 2002
Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …
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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance
Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005
Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447943