Firm Profitability - Does it really matter for shareholder return or ROE (return on equity)? Does this question sound oxymoron and antithetic? Not really. On the contrary, evidence has surfaced that Returns on equity - based on the shareholders' equity accounted in the balance sheet - is not...

The objective of this paper is to explore strategic process models for sustainability. Strategic management helps deal with “messy” problems by integrating multiple, even conflicting, factors through models of strategic processes. A survey of strategic process research provides five broad...

Research Summary: Firm size has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage. However, the disruptions arising from the knowledge-based global economy are decoupling the link between firm size and profitability. We demonstrate in this article, the structural shifts and evolving...

Large firms are increasingly facing existential crisis. While knowledge and information era organizations are replacing industrial age giants in the honor rolls of technocratic leadership, quality, excellence, and profitability, the large industrial era firms (whether banking, utilities,...

With the Nobel Prize in economics for the year 2013 awarded to the scholars who have juxtaposed the theories on market efficiency, and doubtlessly asserting the inefficiency of financial markets by reasoning the disconnect between the firm performance and volatility in asset prices, reforming...

The untenable volatility of financial markets and fleeting nature of stock ownership on one side and corporate scandals, high-risk managerial whims and empire-building attitudes of corporate managers on the other have rekindled a three-decade-old debate on whether financial markets, especially...