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Do principles-based accounting standards matter? Evidence from the adoption of IFRS in China

Hong, Yongtao - 2008

This paper compares measures of accounting quality for 654 firms that previously used rules-based Chinese GAAP and have transitioned into principles-based International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adopted in China. In particular, I examine whether principles-based standards are...

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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices

Hunt, Evan - 2009

, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …

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Planet Building: A Case Study of Corporate Sustainability for a Globalized World

Arnold, Darci L. - 2010

conducted to determine how a large multinational company could create a business case for sustainability, and the results …

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Strategic challenges facing airports in gaining competitive strengths: lessons from the practice of Dubai International Airport

Bitelmal, Mohamed A. - 2010

the airport business industry. In order to succeed, airport management will have to implement new strategic initiatives … management to the case of airports in order to explore the issue of whether the airport business industry is able to apply the … different well-known business tools including the PESTEL Analysis, the Five Forces Model and the Resource-based View (RBV) of …

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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability

Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …

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Fundacion Maquipucuna: an entrepreneurial Ecuadorian non-profit organisation

Ratten, Vanessa - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to describe Fundacion Maquipucuna's community-based entrepreneurship activities. Fundacion Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the literature is conducted to analyse the cacao,...

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Principles for Examining Predictive Validity: The Case of Information Systems Spending Forecasts

Collopy, Fred; Adya, Monica; Armstrong, J. Scott - 1994

Research over two decades has advanced the knowledge of how to assess predictive validity. We believe this has value to information systems (IS) researchers. To demonstrate, we used a widely cited study of IS spending. In that study, price-adjusted diffusion models were proposed to explain and...

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Finding the Sweet Spot: A Two Industry Study Using the Zone of Tolerance to Identify Determinant Service Quality Attributes

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lobo, Antonio; Lysonski, Steven; … - 2006

This paper makes a detailed comparison of two major financial services in Singapore: life insurance and stockbrokerage. Relationships of perceptions and expectations of service quality, mean service adequacy (MSA) and mean service superiority (MSS) with service satisfaction and loyalty are...

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Performance recovery of creative sector industries: Strengthening management literacy and digital business innovation

Hermanto, Yustinus Budi; Estiasih, Soffia Pudji - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 13 (2024) 1, pp. 1-18

This study examined the effect of strengthening management literacy on digital business innovation and accelerating … performance recovery and examined the impact of digital business innovation on accelerating performance recovery. This study is … management literacy directly and significantly influences digital business innovation and accelerates performance recovery …

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An examination of gender-related attitudes among managers.

Massey, Mary Ann. - Florida Atlantic University

This two-part study included two procedures: (1) the development of an instrument to assess gender-related attitudes among male and female managers, and (2) the collection and analysis of data on gender-related attitudes among male and female managers. Male and female managers (n = 165)...

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