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Tan, Justin; Yang, Jun; Veliyath, Rajaram - 2009

Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...

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Historicism in narrative reviews of strategic management research

Novicevic, Milorad M.; Harvey, Michael G.; Buckley, M. … - 2008

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of methodological issues that accompany the articles reviewing past research in strategic management. Design/methodology/approach – The topic of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of historicism in...

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Federalism's Impact on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

Madhu, Aakash - 2009

skills, knowledge, and capital. Multinational corporations (MNCs) are more likely to invest in countries with lower political …

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Capital markets in Malaysia: Corporate finance, investment management, banking and corporate governance

Ariff, Mohamed; Shamsher, Mohamad; Taufiq, Hassan; … - 2008

Extract: The study of emergent capital markets has become an established field of financial research today. In fact there are few research institutes dedicated to this task in the developed countries. This is only natural as the number of emerging capital markets has about doubled in the last...

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Venture Capital on the Downside: Preferred Stock and Corporate Control

Bratton, William W - 2002

This Article takes the occasion of the simultaneous collapse of the high technology stock market and the failure of the dot-coin startups, along with the subsequent retrenchment of the venture capital business, to examine the law and economics of downside arrangements in venture capital...

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The Secondary Market for Gift Cards and the Role of Corporate Bankruptcy Risk

Desai, Kaitlyn A - 2010

The website, Plastic Jungle, is taking advantage of the rapidly growing gift card phenomena by creating a secondary market that enables consumers to buy, sell, and exchange gift cards online at a discount. This paper examines the relationship between this secondary gift card market and the...

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The Determinants of Recovery Rates on Defaulted Corporate Securities: Why do Fallen Angels recover more than Original High Yield Issues?

Adler, Carolyn - 2007

Regression analysis has shown that recovery rates are determined by a variety of conditions at the time of default. These conditions can be broken into five major categories: (1) a security's seniority within the capital structure of the defaulting firm, (2) the type of default event, (3)...

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The Changing Role and Responsibilities of Audit Committees in the United States

Teed, Dan Graham - 2010

and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed that corporations establish a special board committee, made up of "nonofficer …

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Relationship between Fortune 500 companies with regulatory violations and/or criminal offenses and resulting stock values.

Bhagwat, Tanya A. - 2009

The purpose of this study was to determine whether publicly disclosed violations by U.S corporations, resulting in … or not the shareholders' reactions to corporations' violations were related to a decline in organizations' stock … prices, declined more after a corporation was prosecuted or reached a settlement for violations, as compared to corporations …

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An investigation of the effects of SFAS No.121 on asset impairment reporting and stock returns

Alshabani, Waleed Mohammad - 2001

Prior to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.121 (SFAS No.121): Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of, managers had substantial discretion concerning the amount and timing of reporting writedowns of long-lived assets. Moreover, the...

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