The purpose of this study is to analysis the performance of hotel industries in United Emirates Arab during five years. The analysis is applied on the sample of four company in United Emirates Arab over the period between 2012 until 2016. This study using a descriptive analysis such as credit...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore corporate governance (CG) and succession planning in family-owned businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews are conducted with 16 owners and heirs of UAE family businesses. The interviews –...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the performance of Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs's for five years. The analysis is applied on the sample of Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs's in France over the period between 2012 and 2016. This study is using a descriptive analysis such as...

The aim of this study is to analyse the performance of hotel industry in United Arab Emirates during five years. This study was carried out using the secondary data which was obtained from the annual reports of five companies in consecutive years from 2012 until 2016. Return on asset (ROA) has...

This study uses data from the Arab Middle East, namely, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to examine whether slack and planning (comprehensiveness of strategic decision making and extensiveness of strategic planning), which are of special importance at the moment in this recently established...

We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus on bank ownership concentration measured as the amount of direct equity held by a majority shareholder categorised into: high ownership concentration, moderate ownership...

We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe’s civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...

We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms in the UK and France - two countries with different financial systems. We aim to answer two main questions: What is the direct impact of financial characteristics and different...

The objective of this study is to determine whether specific industries across countries or within countries are more likely to reach a stage of profitability and make a successful exit. In particular, we assess whether firms in certain industries are more prone to exit via IPO, be acquired, or...

Previous research on firm performance does not adequately account for the interrelatedness of a firm's professional connections, political ties, and family business-group affiliation. Many widely-cited findings may therefore be subject to confounding bias. To address this problem, we adopt a...