This paper aims to measure and analyze the efficiency of the US publicly-held insurance industry from 2011 to 2013. The paper uses a two-stage efficiency model: (1) data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric model for measuring the efficiency of 141 panel data of US publicly-held...

The main objective of this article is to investigate the existence of configurations of information technology governance within organizations and to zoom in on their role in driving business value. This study proposes a research model that relies on the configurational theory in an attempt to...

Many organisations are known to focus more on their financial gains to the detriments of their other roles that they are expected to discharge to their workforce and the communities. It has also been established from previous researches that financial performance would not be adequately valid...

Business transactions are going to be fast day by day because of dynamic changes in the global environment. Merger and Acquisition is a strategy adopted by the organizations globally to meet the needs of recent dynamic business environment. It has achieved much attention and importance in...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Organizational Learning Capability, ISO 9001 Effectiveness and Financial Performance of Bosnian exporters. Based on literature review, a conceptual model was validated and the hypotheses were proposed. The measurement...

Despite the copious number of statistical failure prediction models described in the literature, testing of whether such methodologies work in practice is lacking. This paper examines the performance of the same companies with solvency for predicting bankruptcy and comparison in both models....

In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...

The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has long been the subject of debate. However, research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies: the lack of an overarching theoretical perspective, reliance on proxies for the strategy role rather than a direct measure of it and the...

The purpose of this research is to know and to analyzes the effect of financial performance indicators such as Current Ratio, Return On Assets, Net Profit Margin, Earning Per Share, Leverage Ratio, Total Assets Turn Over, Price Earning Ratio, Price to Book Value and Book Value per Share to the...

This research is conducted as a mean to test the fiscal decentralization influence and fiscal stress to economic growth of Kabupaten/Kota at Propinsi Aceh, either through direct and also through financial performance. Accurate problems in this research : Are there fiscal decentralization and...