A common objective of social science and business research is the modeling of the relationship between demographic/psychographic characteristics of individuals and the likelihood of certain behaviors for these same individuals. Frequently, data on actual behavior are unavailable; rather, one has...

Multidimensional unfolding (MDU) is one of the most powerful conceptual and methodological tools used in marketing for product positioning analysis. Unfortunately, the majority of the commercial software programs available for performing such analyses (especially nonmetric analyses) suffer from...

This paper explores the empirical results of the implementation of an independent director system in China. The results show that firms implement board independence by adding extra members, instead of removing inside directors, except in the case where the board size (before the recruitment of...

Due to the share segmentation system, tender offers in the Chinese stock markets are very rare. We investigate the performance and characteristics of acquiring firms on 1148 Mamp;A on the two Chinese stock markets from 1998 to 2003, where a listed company acquires stocks or assets from another...

We investigate the performance and characteristics of acquiring firms on 1148 Mamp;A on the two Chinese stock markets from 1998 to 2003. Using the market model, the CAPM model and the buy-and-hold methods, we find significantly positive abnormal returns before (6 months) and upon Mamp;A...