The introduction of single stock futures to a market presents the opportunity to assess an individualcompany's response to futures trading directly, in contrast to the market-wide impact obtainedfrom index futures studies. Thirty-eight South African companies were evaluated in terms of apossible...

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance for a sample of lodging and gaming companies. The study attempts to answers the question: do lodging and gaming companies ranked highly on CSR initiatives outperform their counterparts...

This thesis attempts to extend the research in the Corporate Social Performance – Corporate Financial Performance relationship. The studies conducted previously display mixed findings with no unified evidence of the relationship direction and impact. This study reviews the existing literature...

In sports, the Most Valuable Player award goes to the individual or group of players who have contributed most to the success of the team. This paper presents the results of two Australian empirical studies conducted six years apart, which suggest that, in business, employees are the most...

Corporate sustainability is an alternative management strategy which goes beyond focusing on growth and profit maximisation of a company. Specifically, it places additional expectations on companies to perform in the areas of social justice, equity, environmental matters and governance issues....

The extant literature on the link between corporate social performance andcorporate financial performance has continued to be surprised by mixed and atbest, inconclusive results. Leveraging recent theoretical and empiricaldevelopments in the social studies of financial markets this paper...

The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the industrial structure in Europe and the U.S. remarkably. Therefore, it is of great importance to assess whether mergers were successful during this period. Noteworthy, studies that...

The paper examines the decision by Australian Real Estate Trusts (A-REITs) to issue seasoned equity offerings from 2000 - 2008 and stock market reaction to the offerings using panel data and event study methodologies, respectively. The global financial crisis has resulted in freezing of the...

Researchers in the area of information security have mainly been concerned with tools, techniques and policies that firms can use to protect themselves against security breaches. However, information security is as much about security software as it is about secure software. Software is not...

This paper investigates the impact of USDA crop production reports in corn andsoybean futures markets. The analysis is based on all corn and soybean production reportsreleased over 1970-2006. The empirical analysis compares the typical OLS eventstudy approach to the new Identification by...