Recently added articles from Journal of Academy of Business and Economics:
State versus private ownership: a shareholder's wealth perspective.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Nguyen, Nhut H. ... 1. INTRODUCTION There has been a voluminous literature on the debate over state versus private ownership. State intervention is theoretically justified as a solution to some form of market failure or in markets for social goods. (1) As argued by Shleifer (1998), however, even ...
Comparing the market responses to dividends and repurchases: an empirical study.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Sedzro, Komlan ... 1. INTRODUCTION We compare the market responses to four competing forms of incremental payouts: regular dividend increases, special dividends, self-tender offer repurchases and open market repurchases. We also investigate the reasons why firms choose one payout form over ...
Analyzing the effectiveness of red flags to detect fraudulent reporting.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Moyes, Glen D. ... 1. INTRODUCTION Corporate governance has been an increasingly important part of the business environment as the actions of some major corporations have resulted in significant financial losses by shareholders. In particular, the financial collapse of such companies as WorldCom, ...
The effect of physical structure on working and personal behavior: an investigative case study at an educational institiution.
Jan 01, 2009; El-Farr, Hadi ... 1. INTRODUACTION For every type of organization, public or private, the office building is a fundamental resource (Gibson, 1994). It is commonly understood that an office building is a workplace which accommodates information gathering and knowledge processing activities ranging ...
Outsourcing multicriteria decision model based on promethee method.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Abath, Juliana Regueira ... 1. INTRODUCTION The purchasing activities of a company are a very important part in the overall operation of the company (Araz, 2007). When outsource, companies become more dependent of its supplier's performance. That is one of the reasons why outsourcing has become a very ...
FDI, export and innovation performance of China's high-tech product industry.(foreign direct investment)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Cheung, Kui-yin ... 1. INTRODUCTION Since economic reform in 1979, China has integrated into the world economy resulting in phenomenal economic growth and expansion of its export sectors. China has diversified its export structure from one that emphasizes labor-intensive products to one that ...
Ethics and nonprofit governance.
Jan 01, 2009; Dede, Martha J. ... 1. INTRODUCTION The ethical and accountability dilemmas confronting nonprofit organizations and their managers generally tend to derive from governance and governance roles. More specifically, such dilemmas arise from inadequate or complete absence of oversight from voluntary ...
Competitive determinants of consumer satisfaction in e-commerce.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Qi, Fang ... 1. INTRODUCTION The online retail sale was up to approximately $104 billion in 2003, a 39% increase over sales was reported in 2002 (Johnson 2004). Technology and the Internet are having a profound effect on marketing (Bitner, Brown, and Mueter 2000). E-Service has grown as a ...
The cross-sectional behavior of trading volume.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Ma, Guohua ... 1. INTRODUCTION Researchers have long been focusing on the behavior of stock returns, but paid less attention to trading volume, an important stochastic process closely related to returns. Numerous theoretical and empirical studies examined the different aspects of the stock ...
Stock return and volatility in the emerging stock market of Bangladesh.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Mollah, Sabur A. ... 1. INTRODUCTION Volatility of stock returns has long been an issue of interest in financial literature. A wide variety of research has been conducted on stock returns volatility in developed and emerging markets since 1970s. Nature of volatility in different markets at different ...
Corporate boards: the new corporate leaders.
Jan 01, 2009; Mueller, Jens ... 1. INTRODUCTION The elected board of directors is a team which leads a corporation. The diversity of the team, along with its shared visions and goals, is essential to leading a successful corporation. As the evolution of the corporation is examined it becomes very "clear that ...
Value-added program assessment using nationally standardized tests: insights into internal validity issues.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Zeis, Charles ... 1. INTRODUCTION Over the past twenty years, higher education has increasingly utilized various assessment approaches to demonstrate the impact or value of a post-secondary education. Such efforts have been driven by several interrelated forces, among others, increased ...
