We investigate the effect of coach dismissals on team performance in the Colombian Professional Soccer League. We use 5,600 observations encompassing first-division games played between 2003 and 2010. Because firing a coach might depend on team performance, we use the number of remaining matches...

We estimate the effect of coach dismissals on team performance using data from the Argentine professional soccer league from 1991 to 2009. Because firing a coach might depend on team performance, we use the number of remaining matches in the season as a source of exogenous variation in the...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper addresses the long-standing question of how budgetary participation (BP) affects budgetary outcomes. Information technology for enhanced communication (ITEC) and activity-based costing (ABC) are taken into consideration as moderators that might affect the relationship between BP and...</para>

What was termed government-guided merger was a unique banking sector reform implemented in 2002 by the central bank of Malaysia guiding a larger number of depository institutions to form 10 large banks. This paper identifies the factors entering this massive merger exercise. Similar to the...

This meta-analysis is a critical comparison of three of quantitative synthesis. It applies some propositions of the Potsdam international consultation on meta-analysis, in the field of management control. Study design. After a traditional narrative review, three meta-analysis methodologies for...

If we can see the knowledge society as an essential part of the “external environment” of the firm management, that brings with it some specific opportunities and threats, we have to consider the intellectual capital – that integrates the two basic resources: knowledge and human – a key...

This paper aims to analyse the relation between the returns of companies that participate in mergers as well as the takeover ratios of output-value (Tobin's qs) of each absorbing (henceforth Bidder) and each absorbed (henceforth Target) company for the period 2000?2006. The returns of Targets...

(VF)Ce papier combine trois types de méta-analyses pour étudier le lien entre la participation budgétaire et la performance managériale. Il permet de mettre en application certaines préconisations du forum international de Potsdam (1994) sur la méta-analyse en contrôle de gestion. Après...

Using the best evidence synthesis method [Slavin, (1995)], we find out an accurate summary on the link between budgetary participation (BP) and managerial performance (MP). The use of selection criteria allowed to decrease the heterogeneity. Our results report the presence of the heterogeneity...

We examine the impact of managers' perceptions of their organisational culture (OC) on the relationship between budgetary participation (BP) and managerial job-related outcomes, operationalised as managerial performance and job-related tension (JRT). Does the relationship between BP and...