The financial position of listed companies is an issue that every stakeholder is concerned about very much. The management of the companies tries every means to improve the company's financial position,and hopes to maintain good trends in the future. Investors also pay close attention to...

This paper examines corporate governance issues in a broader perspective in the context of recent Indian government's initiatives to attract FDI.Foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs when a firm undertakes an investment in an overseas enterprise, in which the foreign investor has both the...

The purpose of this contribution is to analyse the reasons why family portfolio entrepreneurs (Westhead & Wright 1998; Carter & Ram 2003) develop international activities instead of focusing on the national market after the financial crisis. The author claims that the market orientation is a...

This dissertation explores the mechanisms of institutional change in practice. The institutional change under study relates to the progressive penetration of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) criteria into conventional investment funds, a phenomenon which appeared during the 2000s, known as...

Our review of the evidence found that the notion that higher pay leads to the selection of better executives is undermined by the prevalence of poor recruiting methods. Moreover, higher pay fails to promote better performance. Instead, it undermines the intrinsic motivation of executives,...

The paper empirically investigates the issue of macroeconomic convergence in the West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) using monthly data from 1990:01 to 2010:05 as part of the ongoing discussion on the single currency for West Africa, The ECO initiative. The study specifically examines exchange and...

We extend prior empirical research on the questions of whether, how much, and under which conditions strategic leaders matter to the fate of their firms. With a 20-year Panel of 110 German firms, our analysis broadens the prevalent focus on CEO influences in U.S. settings. The results indicate...

Spanish Abstract: En el ámbito empresarial la competitividad hoy en día ha hecho que los mercados sean más complejos y los consumidores más exigentes, por lo cual en los contextos actuales en los que se desenvuelven las empresas están deben ser más competitivas, siendo de suma importancia...

Spanish Abstract: El seguimiento de egresados contribuye al desarrollo de la responsabilidad social universitaria porque reconecta la Institución con el contexto social, y reencuentra su identidad con los egresados brindándoles formación continua pertinente que mejorare su desempeño. En la...

The study was directed to know the individual investor's behavior with the primary objective of exploring the role of financial knowledge on decisions of investment in the Chennai city of Tamil Nadu. For the purpose of study exploratory research design deployed to get required data by having...