We study the effect of derivatives use for both trading and hedging on firm value and financial and market performance using a hand-collected data sample from UK financial firms. We show that the use of derivatives for foreign exchange and interest rate risk hedging enhances value, and that...

This paper on a family-controlled firm in Singapore suggests how such businesses, in competitive industries, may grow and survive. Located in the literature on small firm growth, we explore a corporate incident that threatened the survival of the firm under study. An analysis of the manner in...

The production methods, financial requirements, and supply and demand characteristics of the contract clothing manufacturing sector are studied in order to determine why market exchange relationships within the sector are often untypical (in spite of low entry barriers and set-up costs).The...

We analyze the appointments of outside CEOs of financial and non-financial firms as independent directors on US bank boards and their implications for the banks and the outside CEO firms. We show that outside CEOs from financial firms match with less traditional banks and their appointment...