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The impact of organisational privatization on the performance of publicly owned enterprises

Cayón-Costa, Magda; Vergés-Jaime, Joaquim - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 1-29

In this work we analyse to what degree the efficiency of a publicly owned non-monopolistic enterprise improves as a result of the introduction of strategic organizational reforms consisting of adopting "private-firm-like" management practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e....

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Financial constraints, information asymmetry and Tunisian firm investment

Annabi, Rejeb Aya; Djelassi, Mouldi; Hakimi, Abdelaziz - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 4, pp. 103-116

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the effect of financial constraint, information asymetry on the firm investment. On the basis of a data relating to 394 Tunisian firms observed over the period 2001-2008 and by adopting the panel data method, our findings show that the effect of...

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Topic : capital structure determinants of quoted firms in Nigeria and lessons for corporate financing decisions

Barine, Michael Nwidobie - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 61-81

and the costs associated with the increased likelihood of financial distress and reduced marketability of a firm …'s corporate debt, and agency costs. To ascertain the determinants of this capital mix, research results from the regression … shield is high, ensuring optimal tradeoff between costs and net tax advantage of additional leverage and costs and benefits …

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Working capital management efficiency and corporate profitability : evidences from quoted firms in Nigeria

Barine, Michael Nwidobie - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 2, pp. 215-237

-term debts and upcoming operational expenses at minimal costs, increasing corporate profitability. Research results from compared … working capital costs and returns of 22 quoted firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange evidencing improved gross working capital … positions using the difference between means show that costs of working capital exceed returns on working capital investments …

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Developing an integrated business excellence system and proposing its implementation as the Hellenic National Business Excellence Award

Mavroeidis, Vasileios; Mylonakis, John - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 31-43

Most of Business Excellence – Total Quality models provide a static view and processing of Total Quality issues. This paper proposes a system of Business Excellence taking into consideration: current European practices of Total Quality and competitiveness, a modular, open architecture like...

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Allocation models for DMUs with negative data

Tohidi, Ghasem; Khodadadi, Maryam - In: Journal of industrial engineering international 9 (2013), pp. 1-6

costs. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the proposed methods. …

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Disuasión de entrada, subastas repetidas y divisibilidad del objeto en venta

Peña-Torres, Julio; Fernández Aguirre, Gabriel - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 1, pp. 105-149

This paper analyzes entry deterrence strategies at sequential multi-unit Englishtype repeated auctions, motivated by entry deterrence observed at a series of yearly auctions of fishing rights occurring since the early 1990s in the Chilean Sea Bass industrial fishery. It analyzes parametric...

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Current challenges and future trends for Romanian small and medium enterprises : an empirical study

Oncioicu, Ionica - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 67-83

This study is an exploration of the dynamics of the present Romanian SME’ landscape. I offer first an overview of the characteristics of Romanian entrepreneurship and of the general impact of the recent crisis on the Romanian SME. I outline further the main constraints faced by the SME in the...

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Are government owned organizations deliberately demonized? : the organizational citizenship behavior indicators

Mohanty, Jagannath - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 177-191

Traditionally in India the Government owned enterprises has been cursed by people and scholars equally. The notional drivers of change and progress, these giants have been criticized over the years as grossly inefficient, over staffed, bureaucratic and killingly slow in decision making. Though...

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Análisis del efecto inmediato y diferido de la orientación al mercado sobre los resultados organizacionales : un estudio longitudinal

Cauzo Bottala, Lourdes; Cossío Silva, Francisco José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 228-236

The aim of this work focuses on analyzing the effect, both immediate and delayed, of Market Orientation (MO) on organizational outcomes. A longitudinal study has been done over a time horizon of 3 years in the Spanish financial sector. Regarding the methodology, we have developed a qualitative...

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