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Value chain examination of tertiary education institutions is centered on the dynamics of inter-connection within the education sector, most especially the way in which tertiary education providers such as universities, polytechnics, institutes and the likes are universally integrated, this entails conventional systems of economic, social analysis and much more. This research work is centered on the...
This study examined the nexus between research and development (R&D), innovation and profitability of indigenous oil firms in Nigeria. The factors were categorised into four constructs and the causal relationship among the constructs were established. Structural equation model technique was adopted to test the hypotheses formulated. The results revealed that R&D has a positive and significant...
IPO (Initial Public Offerings) pricing is a systematic and complicated task that directly determines whether the capital market is able to function in a healthy way. As China's stock market goes through ups and downs, China Securities Regulatory Commission generally adopts a positive strategy. Therefore, to weaken the policy factors, 48 cases of IPO companies dated from January 2014 to February 2014...
This study modifies Fukuda Nakamura Caballero Hoshi Kashyap (FN-CHK) method to identify zombie firms by incorporating non-recurring gains and losses. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated by existing unqualified companies and specially-treated companies in Chinese stock market. Based on the proposed method, this study analyzes the development trend, the proportion of zombie firms in...
Using the panel data of thirteen provincial cities in China's Jiangsu Province, this paper analyzes the interactive relationship between industrial agglomeration and talent agglomeration in Jiangsu Province on the basis of elaborating the interaction mechanism between them, and draws lessons from European Union's “smart specialization” policy to make targeted recommendations. Our results show that:...
This paper intends to determine the impact of pursuing a strategy for innovation on capital structure decisions and performance. It builds on the R&D management research which is country-focused and utilizes an international sample. This is significant when considering the sample of the study. While past studies have focused on single country samples, this study utilizes the most innovative firms...
The State Council proposed to develop the strategic emerging industries and give them some support in terms of policy in 2010. Under the policy context, this paper selected the new energy industry as the research object. Based on the panel data of the new energy industry from 2010 to 2014, we found that government subsidies had a weak positive correlation with the capital structure but a significantly...
Video website is one of the fast growing Internet industry in recent years. Although the network video industry maintains a steady market expansion, long-term loss issues of the major online video sites remain unresolved. In order to achieve economies of scale and relieve stress, merger and acquisition (M&A) events between the video sites occur frequently. Can video sites get rid of loss-making...
This study has analyzed the effect of corporate social responsibility on the adjustment speed of capital structure towards the optimal or targeted one, by using data from the non-financial sector of Karachi Stock Exchange for years 2006 to 2014. The study has used structural equation modeling. The study has concluded that the relationship between CSR and speed of capital structure adjustment is significant...
Selling in bundles has been argued to lead to more and earlier sales in promotion and clearance campaigns, which could improve inventory turnover, capacity utilization, and profitability. However, recent findings suggest that bundle promotions have limited ability in achieving such outcomes because of the quantity requirement in traditional bundling (purchasing a quantity of two or more for consumers...
On the basis of comprehensive analysis of the traditional evaluation method, this paper proposes a financial competitiveness evaluation model combining the entropy weight method and grey correlation theory, better overcome the incompleteness and uncertainty of information, and reveal the implicit relationship between the sample indicators, provides a practical and feasible method to analyze and evaluate...
New material industry is one of the seven strategic emerging industries, which push the development of other strategic emerging industries. Researches about new material industry are growing. Based on the DEA method, the paper conducted an empirical study of the financing efficiency of 68 listed new material enterprises, with the panel data from 2011 to 2013. The main empirical results demonstrate...
R&D investment strategy is important for the growth of an enterprise profit. However, there is always a trade-off between short-term profits and R&D expenditure for the firm's decision-making. In this decision-making, R&D investment by an enterprise is considered as a combination between the ‘genotype’ of the industry that the enterprise belongs to and the ‘phenotype’ of the enterprise...
The rapid development of cultural media industry has become a new economic growth point of the national China's economy. This paper utilizes multivariate statistical method, and carried carries out the factor analysis of 14 key financial indicators for 39 listed companies in 2013 of the China's cultural media industry. Four common factors are extracted as: company scale merit factor, company profitability...
This paper selects 12 publishing listed companies in China as research sample, uses the factor analysis method to make a comprehensive evaluation and comparative analysis of the growth of publishing listed companies in 2012–2013 according to four respects including profitability, operation ability, debt paying ability and development ability. Finally, we find that the profitability is not strong for...
Based on the research of the existing literature, this article especially added some factors, such as operating leverage and sustainable growth rate; to evaluate the Guangdong listed small and medium-sized enterprise sustainable development ability. This article selects the 2013 annual report data from the GTA CSMAR Database and uses the factor analysis and the cluster analysis of SPSS22.0 multivariate...
Information and communication technology (ICT) in today's developing world, is on the assets and necessities for development and growth of companies, especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which play an important role in the economy of each and every country and are capable of bringing about results like effectiveness, profitability, decreasing trading costs, better marketing and...
In the last half decade or so, the buzz phrase in the business and research arena is Big Data and Big Data Analytics. One industry that can reap substantial benefits from big data and analytics is the mobile phone industry. Nigeria in the West Africa is one country where mobile phone market is considerably big. Over 90 per cent of individuals and corporate businesses completely rely on the mobile...
Free to play is supposed to be the future of monetizing games. On one side user can access the game for free, thus it is distributed quickly. On the other side the game generates turnover by user spending real money on virtual items. Even though only a small number of players buy in-game items, it seems to be a very successful revenue model for games. Yet there is little understanding of the purchasing...
This paper gives an empirical study on determinants of capital structure of Chinese-listed companies using firm-level panel data. The study employs a new database containing the accounting data from 89 non-financial companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange during the period time of 2003 to 2005. It employs six index variables as independent variables, and finds main affecting factors...
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