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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 …
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Red Lion Hotel Corporation
Shao, Yin-Chia - 2011
nature of the business, environmental analysis, strategy position within the industry, competitive advantage, strategic … differentiation diversification. Examining the business environment analysis, the external environment has a moderately strong impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463240
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Stock index futures prices and the Asian financial crisis
Hassan, Taufiq; Mohamad, Shamsher; Ariff, Mohamed; … - 2007
This study reports new findings on the behavior of index futures (FKLI: code name of Kuala Lumpur Index Futures contract) prices and also records the effect of a major financial crisis on the prices. Since the inception of trading in 1995, the FKLI has been selling at a discount, which gradually...
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Bank risk and return: The impact of bank non-interest income
Williams, Barry; Prather, Laurie - 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between traditional margin income and fee-based income for banks operating in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Considering several performance variables, this analysis compares the...
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The defensive expansion approach to multinational banking: Evidence to date
Williams, Barry - 2002
This paper integrates the defensive expansion hypothesis in multinational banking with the internalisation approach to the multinational enterprise. This framework is then used to structure a review of the literature to date regarding the proposition that multinational banks follow their clients...
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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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The low P/E effect and abnormal returns for Australian industrial firms
Kelly, Simone; McClean, Jenna; McNamara, Ray - 2008
market. Furthermore, the superior returns of low P/E stocks increase when a consensus of two business failure prediction …
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The market premium for the option to close: Evidence from Australian gold mining firms
Kelly, Simone - 2004
This paper assesses whether the market valuation of gold mining firms contain a premium for the option to close. Tests of whether observed market values incorporate operating flexibility is central to our understanding of the processes that drive market values and has implications for the...
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Are stock splits credible signals? Evidence from the Singapore market
Ariff, Mohamed; Khan, Wayalet A.; Baker, H. Kent - 2004
This paper studies the effects of stock splits on returns using daily data from the Singapore Stock Exchange over the period 1983-2000. Specifically, it examines whether stock split announcements provide credible signals due to asymmetry of information. We find that the market, on average,...
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A test of purchasing power parity: Asia Pacific and Latin America
Ho, Catherine S. F.; Ariff, Mohamed - 2009
Finding evidence of the theoretical relationship between exchange rate and inflation has been a difficult proposition in an exchange rate market, despite many studies in developed markets. Three recent papers employing a new research design, Theil’s Divisia index method, found that this...
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