Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...

In the case of Indonesia, family businesses have remained important during the country's years of fast economic growth. One of the reasons for the collapse is the businesses' failure to apply appropriate management practices. Batik is one of the most important (if not the most important) family...

In 2002, the German Corporate Governance Code (GCGC) was established to improve corporate governance of German listed firms and to make the German corporate governance system and firm-specific corporate governance more transparent for (international) investors. With regard to the empirical...

Several previous research studies have reported mixed results concerning the direct relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. Actually, the presence of innovation as a mediating variable within this relationship has not yet been fully established. Hence, this article's...

This paper empirically explores, through the detailed study of a sample of Ellenic cases of international technology transfer arrangements, the relationship between firm economic performance and firm technological accumulation efforts. The logistic regression model used indicates that from the...

This work examines an artificial neural system (ANS) capable of dimensionality-reduction and its fitness to a business data analysis problem. While ANSs are often used in the later stages of explorative data analysis to place similar cases in clusters or to identify known patterns, the role of...

Previously, Tanzania pursued a socialist approach to development. This failed there, as in most other countries. Consequently, since the 1990s Tanzania started promoting SME entrepreneurship to fast-track its economic growth and development. A lack of human capital can hinder development just as...

This study seeks to develop a dynamic theoretical framework for global competitiveness and to determine whether the enhancement of firm performance comes as a consequence of clustering at the location level, inter-organisational trust at the relationship level, or resource and knowledge...