The purpose of this study is to assess the factors associated with investor guidance required by SAB 74 (codified as SAB Topic 11.M) by 206 micro cap firms as they implement FIN 48. Logistic regression results support, overall, the expectation that industry affiliation is a significant predictor...

Firm-level fixed investment expenses are analysed using a large panel of US manufacturing firms from 1971 to 2007. Integrating the user cost of capital, q and accelerator theories of investment to one econometric specification, we estimate the impacts of sales growth, cash flow, the cost of...

The ongoing financial and economic crisis throughout the industrialised world has spotlighted a number of significant deficiencies in corporate governance and management. The strength and composition of the management team along with effective corporate governance policy should play an important...

We analyse the current Japanese economic downturn in the context of unique Japanese socio-cultural features, and contrast the Japanese conditions with those in the US. We find that socio-cultural factors shed light on economic conditions. In particular, the Japanese collectivist culture,...

We analyse the current Japanese economic downturn in the context of unique Japanese socio-cultural features, and contrast the Japanese conditions with those in the US. We find that socio-cultural factors shed light on economic conditions. In particular, the Japanese collectivist culture,...

While corporate governance and strategic management have for a long time suffered from artificial separation and, therefore, generally been tackled in a secluded manner, their combined organizational impact makes them stringently related to one another in the firms’ evolution. In this paper,...

The vast majority of research on the relationship between corporate governance and strategic management focuses on the impact of corporate governance on strategic management. In this article we propose a cyclical model, highlighting that strategic decisions can also affect corporate governance...

In this study, I examine the relationship between board composition and diversification strategy in Japanese electronic corporations. Many Japanese electronics companies have performed sluggishly and instituted major reforms in terms of governance and management. The strategic choice between...

The paper highlights on corporate governance relation through collecting and analyzing different secondary resources such as websites, lectures, published articles and books and primary resources about performance of leading companies implement new strategic models and adopt governance...