This study explores the roles of the board of directors (BOD) (as a proxy for board performance) in Malaysian listed companies and examines the relationship between board roles and firm performance. Four board roles (strategy, service, monitoring, and resource dependence) are considered in this...

A systematic measurement framework for the Malaysian construction industry is essential to enable the industry to monitor its progress towards achieving the goals set out in the Construction Industry Master Plan 2006-15. The objectives were to develop a comprehensive set of performance measures...

Our main goal is the generalization of the approach of Jobson and Korkie(1984) for funds performance evaluation. Therefore, we consider the portfolio selection problem of an investor who faces short sales restrictions when choosing among F different investment funds and assume the investor's...

Foreign subsidiaries, as organization units of a multinational company, are profoundly involved in the value creation process for and within the company. The performance evaluation of foreign subsidiaries is a crucial issue for globally-active companies not only in regard to value creation for...

This paper analyzes the post-privatization performance and organizational changes of a Pakistani State Owned Enterprise (SOE). Drawing on the concept of sustainable development, this study examines the performance of the firm from three perspectives - economic, social and environmental. The...

The present paper deals with the opportunities for the modeling of flue gas and air system of a thermal power plant by making the performance evaluation using probabilistic approach. The present system of thermal plant under study consists of four subsystems with three possible states: full...

Purpose: There are many kinds of methods to evaluate the performance of enterprise, but they still have some distinct shortcomings. In order to achieve a better evaluation result, we put forward a new model named FLI-GA (Fuzzy logic inference & Genetic algorithm). Approach: This model, mainly...

Purpose: The requirements for high quality and diversification aquatic products are increasing with the improvement of Chinese living standard. However, the distribution between the place of production and the place of consumption are uneven, which results in large cold-chain logistics demand...