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Is Ethical Money Sensitive to Past Returns? The Case of Portfolio Constraints and Persistence of Islamic and Socially Responsible Funds

Abdelsalam, Omneya; Duygun, Meryem; Matallín-Sáez, … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …

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Ownership and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2003

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state ownership. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

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General Considerations on Leadership in the Hospitality Industry. Conceptual Analysis and Practical Studies

ISPAS, Andreia - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 3 (2010) 4(12), pp. 213-220

Leadership in the hospitality industry is still an open research field especially in describing the effects of leadership style on hotel employees. The purpose of the paper is to present and analyze the following concepts: leadership and leadership style, hospitality industry; the practical...

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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Frese, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

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Human Resource management, Institutionalisation and Organisational Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …

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Challenging (Strategic) Human Resource management Theory

Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

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Employee Perception on Commitment Oriented Work Systems

van der Wiele, Ton; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Human resource management (HRM) does matter! Prior empirical research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997) and Boselie et al. (2000), suggests significant impact of HRM on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...

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Setting Up a Business in the Netherlands

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Bosma, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Why does one person actually succeed in starting a business, while a second gives up, and a third is still trying? To answer this question, a longitudinal study was set up in which 330 nascent entrepreneurs (people setting up a business) were followed over a one-year period. After one year, 47%...

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Human Resource Management and Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance of the firm has been a hot debated topic in … performance is in a Dutch setting mitigated by institutions and stakeholders inside and outside the organization. …

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Ownership and Firm Performance After Large-Scale Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124464