Depository is an institution or a kind of organization which holds securities with it, in which trading is done among shares, debentures, mutual funds, derivatives, F&O and commodities. The intermediaries perform their actions in variety of securities at Depository on the behalf of their...

Purpose - the study of indicators of corporate social responsibility in the implementation of socially responsible investing through ETFs (Exchange trade funds) in emerging markets.Composed of the regression equation and the figures obtained correlation between the criteria of corporate social...

All public sector organisations in the UK have witnessed changes in funding arrangements during the 1980s as part of the Government's drive to make them more accountable to the tax-payer. The development of performance indicators is seen as an essential step to ensure that such organisations...

As student numbers in higher education in the UK have expanded during recent years, it has become increasingly important to understand its cost structure. This study applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to higher education institutions in England to assess their cost structure, efficiency and...

A typical hedge fund manager receives greater compensation when the fund has a strong absolute or relative performance. Asymmetric performance fees and fund flow-performance relationship may create incentives for risk-shifting, estimated in our study by the change in fund return volatility in...

In this study, we examine the existence and performance of cognitive groups. In accordance with the attention-based view of managerial cognition, cognitive groups are defined as groups of firms in which the CEOs focus their attention on similar strategic elements when seeking to maximize their...

The present study investigates a higher-order measurement model of the Islamic corporate social responsibility (ICSR) construct in business organisations in the Malaysian context. The study aims to contribute new knowledge to the existing literature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in...

Scholarly interest in global value chain (GVC) has gained momentum in recent years, yet a comprehensive framework that elucidates how GVC affects an important firm-level outcome—innovation performance (IP)—is so far elusive. To address this gap, we develop a conceptual framework related to...

Managers often face the choice between promoting an internal employee and hiring an external candidate. Using an incentivized experiment, we examine managers’ promote/hire decision and employees’ behavior before and after that decision in a setting in which the external candidate has...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of Intellectual Capital (IC) on Middle East University's (MEU) Business Performance (BP), through examining the managers’ perceptions regarding significance and potential use of IC indicators to leverage MEU's performance. The study...