to performance. For the first time we employ aHodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

change (e.g. ownership, technology, location, line of business etc.). This is explored in a model of firm performance using … performance is explained in terms of a count of real options exercised, measures of the level and timing of precipitators and …

This paper seeks a good measure of new business performance, and then explains this measure by various dimensions of … business strategy. Three criteria are used to create a one dimensional ordinal ranking of high, medium and low performance for … cluster analysis provides a convincing separation of a sample of new business starts into high, medium and low performance …

This paper compares the performance of Black-Scholes with an artificial neural network (ANN) in pricing European style … call options on the FTSE 100 index. It is the first to study the performance of ANNs in pricing UK options, and the first …

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and …, private ownership tends to be associated with superior performance in terms of some indicators but not others, and dispersed … ownership results in better or equal performance than more concentrated forms of ownership. …

-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers’ independence is positively associated with firms’ financial performance … performance, (ii) board participation of foreign stakeholders, on the other hand, enhances the firm’s export orientation and … performance by encouraging executives’ decision-making autonomy. …