There has been a worldwide trend for financial institutions to become larger in scale and more diversified in scope, with Taiwan being no exception. Fourteen financial holding companies (FHCs) have each begun to function as a management umbrella in Taiwan by investing in different types of...

The aim of this paper is to explore the efficiency and the benchmarks of financial holding companies (FHCs) for a small open economy, Taiwan. We employ a two-stage production process including profitability and marketability performance using a non-parametric frontier method — data envelopment...

With the globalization of capital markets, stock exchanges around the world have faced their most challenging era since 2005. While the traditional role of the stock exchange should evolve by enforcing competitive advantage, as the heart of modern capital markets, stock exchanges give rise to...

A new movement reconciling corporate sustainability and investment is gaining world-wide attention. Whether corporate sustainability has an impact on market value is examined using large US non-financial firms from 1999 to 2002 in this paper. Taking Tobin's "q" as the proxy for firm value, a...

Businesses aim to make profit, but very often they fail to take environmental protection into consideration in the drive to please stakeholders. In this article, a new conceptual framework for evaluating corporate integrated development through the perspective of efficiency (looking at the...

This study uses a two-stage approach to explore the relationship between the operational performance of U.S. telecommunications companies and their implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the first stage, this study adopts the dynamic data envelopment analysis model to...