Objective – The role of knowledge management and competencies related to marketing skills are essential for Indian and Maldivian businesses, due to the emerging economy and globalization. This study therefore aims to identify the impact of marketing competencies on organizational performance...

The study analyzed the financial performance of selected micro, small, and medium enterprises using secondary data from financial statements for the past three years. Results showed the enterprises performed favorably in liquidity, activity and leverage but suffered from a low-level...

Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), now spread all over India, have been playing a great role in all round rural development of the nation. Their role in spreading financial inclusion has been highly recognized by Ministry of Finance, GoI and the Reserve Bank of India in their various reports. To...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the market timing behaviour of issuers of Indian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). The declining trend in variables reflecting investor's sentiments and expectation in post IPO period suggested that firms took advantage of over-optimism of investors....

Traditionally periodic corporate performance is most often measured using some variant of historical accounting income (eg. Net Profit, EPS) or some measures based on the accounting income (eg. ROI/ROCE). However it had long been recognized that accounting income is not a consistent predictor of...

The Law of Proportionate Effect depicts that firm's growth rate is independent of its size; Gibrat (1931). Some of the existing studies support the law: Hymer and Pashigian (1962), Mansfield (1962), among others. However, Gale (1972), Shepherd (1972) and recently Punnose (2008) report a positive...

The purpose of this article is to investigate how competitive intensity impacts the relationship between crucial firm resources (human capital, organizational capital, management capability) and firm performance. Using a sample of 105 service providers from the Indian Information...

This study examines the relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance in Indian firms. This study proposes to examine the various dimensions of relationship between corporate social performance and corporate financial performance in India. The Corporate...

Corporate social responsibility aims at making the process of maximizing the wealth of shareholders more effectively and fairly by taking care of the needs of the society as well. This concept has gained importance in the recent past as business could realize the benefit of CSR in the form of...

This study examines the relationship between board diversity and firm value for 500 large listed Indian firms. This relationship is examined using annual data from 2003-13. Board Diversity is measured by presence of women on the board. Firm Value is measured by using both accounting and market...