Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider an archetypal illustration of change possibilities manifested in a corporation, Enron Corporation, operating within the context of global market capitalism. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken is a theory guided case study....

The empirical determination of whether human capital investment creates intangible assets and contributes to firms' profitability and market values is seriously hampered by the lack of publicly disclosed information on such practices. Using unique survey data regarding employee training...

This study explores analyst following of companies in terms of equity analysts' potential trading and underwriting revenues and costs. Using measures of equity securities trading, equity securities issuance, risk, corporate disclosure, insider and institutional ownership, and complexity, we...

This research studies the association between multinational firm complexity and analyst following. We first present a model of a firm?s operational complexity in terms of its lines of business and geographic operating regions, considered separately, jointly, and interactively, including a...