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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions

Powell, Adam C. - 2011

data, support was found for the Bounded Rationality hypothesis; firms have less uncertainty about an acquisition’s … hypothesis; firms whose prior machines perform below aspiration levels seek more uncertainty in their subsequent acquisitions … uncertainty over the acquisition’s ability to fulfill customer desires was associated with the acquisition of a less expensive …

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Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

Zhang, Lu - 2007

Interpreting accruals as working capital investment, we hypothesize that firms optimally adjusttheir capital investment in response to discount rate changes. Consistent with the discount-ratehypothesis, we document that (i) the predictive power of accruals for future returns increaseswith the...

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Risk mitigation strategies for project management, platform development and supply chain design

Anderson, Edward George (contributor) - 2010

This dissertation studies strategies to mitigate the risks associated with operational and strategic decisions of a firm, particularly focusing on project management, product development and procurement decisions. In the first essay we develop two simulation-based methods to evaluate risky...

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Two essays on corporate finance

Parrino, Robert (contributor) - 2010

This dissertation consists of two essays on corporate finance. Essay one examines whether corporate governance affects firm performance after capital investments. I find that among firms with weak corporate governance, those with high abnormal capital investments have significantly lower stock...

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Are hot markets driven by hot resource shares or hot commodities?

Suchard, Jo-Ann; Woo, Li-Anne - 2003

Cycles in initial public offer (IPO) underpricing have been historically linked to both the proportion and pricing of resource-based IPOs issued relative to the entire population of IPOs. In addition, IPOs in the less diversified resource sector are exposed to changes in underlying commodity...

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Aftermarket price performance of initial public offerings on the JSA: 1980-1998

M’kombe, Chamu Mark - 2011

It is generally accepted that investors who invest in initial public offering shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) expect to get returns that are in line with the risk to which they expose their investments. It would be beneficial for these investors, particularly those who invest for...

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Managerial prestige and post-IPO firm performance: a partially mediated model

Cannella, Albert A. (contributor); … - 2007

The role of top managers in shaping the performance of the firms that employthem represents a central issue to strategic management research. Indeed, a substantialamount of research has examined potential linkages between the characteristics of topmanagers and firm performance. However the...

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Informational Externalities of Going Public Decisions

Cotei, Carmen - 2004

In this dissertation I examine the informational externalities ofgoing public decisions for industrial and banking sector. Theresults show that industrial rivals have positive valuation effectsonly in response to venture backed IPOs and no significantreaction in response to non-venture backed...

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Informational Externalities of Going Public Decisions

Cotei, Carmen - 2004

In this dissertation I examine the informational externalities of going public decisions for industrial and banking sector. The results show that industrial rivals have positive valuation effects only in response to venture backed IPOs and no significant reaction in response to non-venture...

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Intellectual capital disclosure in Hong Kong initial public offerings

Ng, Margaret Chui Ling - 2011

Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

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