Propping acts by controlling shareholders are common in Chinese listed firms. In this paper, we use data on related-party transactions of all listed Chinese firms from 2002 to 2008 to investigate the motivation behind controlling shareholders' propping acts and subsequent wealth-transfer...

While the relationship between state ownership and firm performance has been widely researched, the empirical evidence has provided mixed results. This study applies panel data regression techniques to 10,639 firm-year observations of non-financial Chinese listed firms during 2003-2010 to...

This study examines whether corporate culture promotion affects firm performance in China in terms of firm market value, firm financial performance and innovation output. We find consistent evidence that corporate culture promotion is negatively related to firm market value, positively related...

Existing evidence regarding inventory-performance relationship is inconclusive. A perspective that this paper stresses in considering this relationship is that it might depend on organizational life cycle stage. The underlying assumptions of this argument are that organization's strategies and...

We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus on bank ownership concentration measured as the amount of direct equity held by a majority shareholder categorised into: high ownership concentration, moderate ownership...

The main purpose of this study is to explore the effects of innovation types including product, process, marketing and organizational innovation on different aspects of firm performance such as innovative, production, marketing and financial performance in Pakistani manufacturing companies. Data...

High performance work systems (HPWS) and their effect on firm performance is examined using a single holistic case study design in which the Total Strategic Resource Approach (TSRA) is used to measure the extent of HPWS implementation in a private Pakistani hospital. Using a mixed methodology...

Corporate governance remained most discussed issue in the 2000s during accounting standard adoption, and Asian financial crisis. This study intends to contribute toward the impact of corporate governance features on the firm performance in presence of certain firm specific attributes and...

Purpose: The main goal is to understand the way many factors affect the investment decision making process and business performance.Design/methodology/approach: This study proposes a new conceptual framework for examining the reasons that manufacturing firms decide to invest on the acquisition...