In this dissertation I investigate whether managers alter the linguistic tone of their earnings announcements to … increase the value of their stock options. Empirical research finds evidence that managers use optimistic tone to signal future … announcements and short-window abnormal returns. The market reaction to optimistic tone suggests that managers can profit from using …

Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … has always centered on upper level management. From wondering how much the store manager at my first job got paid, to … considered for an executive level management position in the future. To do so, the most effective means appeared to be to …

-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 … managers may be less influenced than senior women managers by the gender of the speaker in evaluating whether specific …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies …

been collected from experience of a management development programme for Chinese managers in 20 state-owned enterprises … obstacles to the efficient implementation of Western-designed and delivered programmes of management development in China … managers were brought up and taught to think and operate may not be successful. It is only when Western providers of management …

In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …

transitioned into principles-based International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adopted in China. In particular, I examine … whether principles-based standards are associated with less real earnings management, less comparability, a higher variance of …-based standards have a significantly more evidence of real earnings management (financial structuring) and a significantly less …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource management (HRM) in China … texts related to people management and drew on reviews of HRM research in China since the establishment of the People … the Chinese style of management and further develop management and organisation theories in the China context. …

been adopted in the emerging markets such as that in China is particularly interesting to academia and management …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how understanding of human resource (HR) management practices which have … domestic and collectively owned small firms, as well as those state-owned enterprises in China, may see clearly the benefits of …