Managing and creating shareholder values have become a widely accepted corporate objective since the last decade. Of late, companies in India have started focusing on shareholders wealth creation by adopting value-based models for measuring shareholder value that helps to align managerial...

This exploratory study attempts to discover the impact of firm-specific characteristics on the shareholder value of the listed companies in India. Apart from this, it seeks to explore whether the significant firm attributes are common to both the dimensions of shareholder value, that is,...

Owing to the managerial concept of the company, the fundamental objective of an enterprise’s existence is the shareholder value. The owners of the company require managers to fulfil the objectives of its owners that is to increase shareholder value. This is done through the growth of the value...

This paper examines the changing forms of divisional performance measures used by UK companies presenting empirical evidence from a postal questionnaire. In particular it considers the extent and nature of the use of value based measures, such as Economic Value Added (EVAR), at the divisional...

This paper examines the relative and incremental information content of economic value added (EVA) and traditional performance measures, focusing on the Tunisian banking industry. Our sample comprises only publicly listed commercial banks, and comprises ten banks over a period of ten years...

This paper analyses the relationship between efficiency and shareholder return (using an Economic Value-Added or EVA measure) in the French, German, Italian and UK banking systems over the period of 1999–2002. Various hypotheses regarding the relationship between bank efficiency and...

Questions on how to measure financial performance, and the real indicators of correct and real financial performance, have always been an unsolved actual argument in financial economics theory and practice, though they have been discussed for centuries. Accounting based profit measures kept...

This paper analyses the relationship between efficiency and shareholder return (using an Economic Value-Added or EVA measure) in the French, German, Italian and UK banking systems over the period of 1999?2002. Various hypotheses regarding the relationship between bank efficiency and shareholder...

Analyzing the annual reports of India’s largest 500 companies over a period of five years (from 2004 to 2008), the present study at first tries to examine the extent of Economic Value Added (EVA) reporting practices prevalent in Indian corporate sector. It reveals that just 37 companies...