Shareholder perks (SP) are additional benefits companies provide to strengthen investor relationships and increase retail shareholders. Using the Japanese listed companies that conduct SP programs, we examine the management intention of retail shareholder-increasing strategy given the real...

Research Question/Issue: The study compares corporate governance and its impact on cash holdings (CH) between shareholder-perk (SHP) and non-shareholder-perk (NON-SHP) firms in Japan. We use the t-test, fixed effects, and generalized method of moments (GMM) to examine 3522 firms from 2005 to...

This study investigates whether patents can be a useful signaling tool for the IPO performances among high- and low-tech firms. Literature has provided a wealth of evidence confirming a significant relationship between patent signal and capital-raising success for US and EU venture...

Housing demand studies have been conducted since the 1970s. However, this research has lagged that of sustainability in housing & the standards founded to guide sustainable housing development, especially in Asia. While direct comparisons to sustainable building standards are non-existent, many...