Increased integration and growing macroeconomic fluctuations require more attention to be paid to the link between the "noise" that these fluctuations represent and the company's own development. For many reasons management must weed out the effects of the "noise" so as to obtain a clear picture...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion looking at whether CEO and Executive Director Remuneration have an impact on Firm Performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study entails Australia, The United States of America and The United Kingdom. The data collected is from public listed...

Discontinued operations should reflect a strategic shift of resources that will help to improve future firm performance. A shift of fixed cost allocation from discontinuing or disposing of a line of business is discussed in management text books, and such decisions are complex and affect the...

Assembling the right management team is a challenging and complex process in today’s global economy. The recent worldwide financial meltdown has simply underscored the importance of a far-sighted and balanced management organisation. The characteristics and composition of the management team...

The information systems literature and the public press have called for organizations to more closely scrutinize their information technology (IT) controls; however, little more than anecdotal evidence exists on the business value of IT internal control investments, beyond regulatory compliance....

Until 2001, certain stock acquisitions could be accounted for as pooling-of-interests. There were concerns that pooling was associated with earnings fixation and weak corporate governance. I investigate the cross-sectional variation in the purchase-pooling choice and its association with...

Enron's collapse is generally viewed as a morality tale - the natural result of managerial greed, a clueless board, and feckless gatekeepers. But none of these aspects of the story clearly distinguishes Enron from other major firms during the bubble era of the late 90s. This material identifies...

ERP system implementation is how to improve corporate performance? In the existing research literature and in practice, the accumulation did not answer this question, but more concerned about how the successful implementation of ERP systems and ERP systems lead to some of the negative issues. At...

In order to improve the organizational performance of governmental entities, there has been a tendency in many countries to introduce management reforms that are believed to prevail in private companies. The term 'NPM' (New Public Management) was coined to label these reforms. NPM stresses -...

This research aimed to determine whether the environmental performance and Good Corporate Governance (GCG) mechanisms, such as managerial ownership, institutional ownership, the proportion of independent commissioners had effects of the audit committee on measured financial performance by using...