Nonprofit organisations (NPOs) have emerged as important not-for-profit private actors providing goods or services directly related to their explicit aim to create social value for the community in which they work. In order to maximize its social value creation, an NPO firstly has to define its...

Firms in information and communication (ICT) sector are often considered as an important element of business innovation performance in the economy. This paper is focused on examining their share on innovation and total research and development (R&D) expenditure in selected European countries....

Firms in information and communication (ICT) sector are often considered as an important element of business innovation performance in the economy. This paper is focused on examining their share on innovation and total research and development (R&D) expenditure in selected European countries....

Working capital management (WCM) plays a significant role in company's operations. The aim of this research is to explain how working capital management affects profitability of Serbian companies measured by ROA indicator. In order to answer the question, a quantitative analysis of working...

This study focuses on the mediation channels through which the financial performance of intelligent manufacturing industries closely related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been affected. Along with compiling a massive volume of datasets publicized by the Chinese government and other...

We examine relations between board size, managerial incentives and enterprise performance in nonprofit organizations. We posit that a nonprofit's demand for directors increases in the number of programs it pursues, resulting in a positive association between program diversity and board size....

Purpose – Central to the Islamic scholars' argument that religious and cultural norms in Muslim countries may drive preference of Islamic microfinance over conventional microfinance, we analyze if performance measures and their factors for Microfinance Institutions (hereafter referred as MFIs)...

How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the question by exploiting a unique database from a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives. We scrutinize the loan-granting decisions, made jointly by the...

Employee matching grant schemes are coordination mechanisms that reduce free-riding by socially-conscious employee-donors. Matching schemes coupled with lower take-home pay than offered by non-matching firms will survive capital and labor market competition if employee type is not observable and...

We investigate the relationship between private foundation performance and managerial pay. Private foundations are an unusual organizational form in that after the death of the founder, there are no donors or other external constituencies with the power and incentives to discipline management....