Purpose: The paper examines how earnings transparency affects dividend payouts for Indian firms. The authors also explore the channels through which earnings transparency affects dividend payouts. Design/methodology/approach: The authors employ panel data estimation with fixed effects to...

Purpose: We examine how business group affiliation affects corporate debt maturity. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs the financial data of all listed Indian companies obtained from the CMIE database for 2011–2018. The ordinary least square, firm-fixed effect and Fama–Macbeth...

Six Sigma approach is considered as a very successful tool in manufacturing quality improvement. From the last two decades, Six Sigma has helped many companies e.g., Honda, American Express, Ford, Honda, General Electric, Sony, Hitachi, Motorola, Texas Instruments etc. to be successful. The goal...