Purpose – Inspired by the recent opening up of the Chinese banking market and by the ensuing location strategies adopted by foreign banks, the purpose of this paper is to develop an empirical analysis on location strategies. The paper enriches the existing literature by including many...

Reuters 3000 Xtra is a real‐time and interactive global news and financial information service that covers the equity market, bond market, foreign currency and money market, and various derivative markets. While there are hundreds of business schools in the USA, only a handful of schools have...

The gap between wealthy and poor is widening, in part due to the epochal rise in the value of financial assets. Middle‐class savers channel their monthly contributions into mutual funds, which in turn invest the money in stocks and bonds. These accounts then accumulate, and the gains are...

Purpose – Scenario planning has significant applications in the field of strategic management and facilitating decision making under uncertainty, and hence this study aims to integrate scenario planning and the preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE)...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to investigate whether social disclosure and environmental disclosure have a substituting or a complementing effect in reducing information asymmetry between managers and stock market participants Design/methodology/approach – This study attempts to provide...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine financial market integration in major South Asian financial markets: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Also to identify the required policy interactions and structural changes vital for broader economic integration....

Purpose – This paper aims to review the international economic and political context within which China is developing its technology management strategy and its economy. The context represents a time of fundamentally significant change in and between the countries of East and West....