The purpose of this study is to analysis the performance of hotel industries in United Emirates Arab during five years. The analysis is applied on the sample of four company in United Emirates Arab over the period between 2012 until 2016. This study using a descriptive analysis such as credit...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore corporate governance (CG) and succession planning in family-owned businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews are conducted with 16 owners and heirs of UAE family businesses. The interviews –...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the performance of Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs's for five years. The analysis is applied on the sample of Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs's in France over the period between 2012 and 2016. This study is using a descriptive analysis such as...

The aim of this study is to analyse the performance of hotel industry in United Arab Emirates during five years. This study was carried out using the secondary data which was obtained from the annual reports of five companies in consecutive years from 2012 until 2016. Return on asset (ROA) has...

This study uses data from the Arab Middle East, namely, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to examine whether slack and planning (comprehensiveness of strategic decision making and extensiveness of strategic planning), which are of special importance at the moment in this recently established...

This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios, in order to detect when there were balance sheets’ variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly results for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for...

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...

We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe’s civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...

We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms in the UK and France - two countries with different financial systems. We aim to answer two main questions: What is the direct impact of financial characteristics and different...