Strategic management of the firm includes the strategic management of information technology in the context of business relationships. Firms do not exist in isolation. Multiple constituents make up a relationship network that constitutes the vital resources needed to fulfil the mission of a...

Corporate diversification continues to be an important phenomenon in the modern business world. More than thirty years of research on diversification suggests that the degree of relatedness among a firm's business units is a factor that can affect firm performance, but the true effect of...

With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...

This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...

Este documento de trabajo supone una contribución a la literatura reciente que documenta el aumento secular de los márgenes ponderados por las ventas en varios países. En Estados Unidos, este fenómeno ha sido impulsado por empresas grandes y productivas. Utilizando los datos detallados de la...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the cost of electricity for Spanish firms. This cost is compared with other expenditure by Spanish industrial firms on goods and services and with their turnover, distinguishing by firm size and sector. Generally, in the industrial sector, the ratio...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2033

Utilizando datos de panel, este trabajo muestra que una mejor regulación en el sector servicios reduce el precio de los consumos intermedios que soportan las empresas de manufacturas, especialmente aquellas de mayor tamaño. El beneficio de un marco regulatorio que fomenta la competencia en el...

This study aims to determine the influence of return on assets (ROA), debt to asset ratio (DAR), firm size (SIZE), the public shareholding (KSP) on the disclosure of corporate social responsibility, either simultaneously or partially on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange....

The purpose of this study is to analyze and determine the effect of Cash Position, Debt to Equity Ratio, Return on Assets, Firm Size and Shareholder Dispersion significantly to the Dividend Payout Ratio on the Banking Industry and Manufacturing Industry is listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange.This...