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Creating Value at the Intersection of Sourcing, Hedging & Trading
Pettit, Justin - 2011
Higher commodity prices, and higher currency and commodity price volatility have combined with challenging economic circumstances to make for very challenging economics within many industries today. These factors introduce risk to both top line revenue as well as the cost structure to wreak...
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The Relationship between Corporate Governance, Corruption and Forward-Looking Information Disclosure : A Comparative Study
Agyei-Mensah, Ben Kwame - 2017
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance, corruption and disclosure of … country.Originality/value – This is one of the few studies in sub-Saharan Africa that considered the impact of corporate … relationship between corporate governance and disclosure by showing that disclosure of forward-looking information in Ghana is …
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Financial Innovation with a Social Purpose : The Growth of Social Impact Bonds
de Mariz, Frederic - 2020
The triple bottom line is an accounting framework with social, environmental and financial factors. This Handbook … development, corporate socially responsible banking firms, the stock returns of sustainable firms, green bonds and sustainable … and private sectors to solve social and environmental issues. This follows a gradual evolution in aid and policy …
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Private Policies and Public Power : When Banks Act as Regulators within a Regime of Privilege
Knight, Brian - 2020
An emerging trend in financial services is banks' increasingly common refusal to do business with industries for political reasons rather than for traditional business justifications. Banks' refusals are often explained by a desire to make a difference or send a message. While this desire may...
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Skill Development and Sustainable Prosperity : Cumulative and Collective Careers versus Skill-Biased Technical Change
Lazonick, William; Moss, Philip; Salzman, Hal; Tulum, Öner - 2015
There is widespread and growing concern about the availability of good jobs in the U.S. economy. Inequality has been growing for thirty years and is now at levels not seen since the 1920s. Stable and remunerative employment has become harder for U.S. workers to find. With the widespread plant...
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Pro- Versus Anti-Competitive Alliances
Arping, Stefan; Troege, Michael - 2010
This paper considers the competitive effects of funding and collaboration alliances between established corporations and entrepreneurial potential rivals. We develop a formal setting to explore how in the presence of mutual agency conflicts, (i) cost efficiencies from resource sharing, (ii) the...
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Dividend policy and earnings management : do agency problem and financing constraints matter?
Hussain, Ammar; Akbar, Minhas - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 5, pp. 839-853
The present study aims to examine the relationship between dividend policy and earnings management by explicitly considering the role of the agency problem and financing constraints. The sample comprises 3250 non-financial Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2018. This study uses fixed- and random...
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Correcting for self-selection based endogeneity in management research : a review and empirical demonstration
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Duso, Tomaso - 2015
Foundational to the discipline of management is the idea that organizational decisions are a function of expected outcomes; hence, the customary empirical approach to employ multivariate techniques that regress performance outcome variables on discrete measures of organizational choices (e.g.,...
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Using Financial Ratios and Lender Relationship Theory to Assess Farm Creditworthiness
Reichert, Alan K. - 2011
This study examines the determinants of farm loan delinquencies, and in particular, the influence of multiple loans and multiple lenders on delinquency. The number of lenders used by a borrower, the number of loans outstanding, and the interaction of the two factors are all positively related to...
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Strategic Management and 'Complex Products' : Some Notes about an Interpretative Model for Business Policies
Aiello, Lucia - 2012
This paper compares some studies in the field of economics and management in order to identify an innovative model of strategic management in reference to complex products. The work starting from (after having taken a critical look at) a critical analysis of structuralist studies, highlights the...
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