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Given the conflicting results from past research, this paper uses social network analysis (SNA) to empirically determine the relationship between interlocking directorates and corporate profitability. Specifically, it seeks to address two research questions: (1) what relationship exists between the number of director interlocks and companies' profitability? (2) what relationship exists between power...
Chinese large logistics enterprises have carried out the business of pledge by warehouse receipts for more than ten years while many problems emerged in the process of business implementation. A lot of risks such as customer credit risk, the risk of bad delivery and regulatory risk have emerged in the business. In particular, customer credit risk is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to study...
In order to analysis whether the administrative appointment can select eligible operators for state-owned enterprises(SOE), a two-stage dynamic game of incomplete information is used in this paper. By introducing an alternative parameter that can reflect the operating capacity, the game model can show what will the administrative appointment bring to this ability parameter. Equilibriums of this game...
The article has introduced appearance background of single well drilling cost information management system. It has analyzed the main module function and described this system's application of drilling company in Zhongyuan Oil Field. The system has kept the information of drilling production material consumption etc. in a clear and orderly condition. It can strengthen the ability of the cost of management...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the intellectual capital reporting practice of companies listed under Ace Market of Bursa Malaysia. This study also evaluates the relationship of firms' characteristics such as firm size, type of industry, type of auditor and profitability with intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) levels. The extent of ICD was measured by using content analysis method....
Augmenting products with services is a key way manufacturers have of pursuing differentiation in today's competitive market, especially in China, an economy in transition. This paper adopts a comprehensive perspective on service in manufacturers by examining the antecedents and the consequences related to a service orientation strategy, as well as the contingency variables with its implementation...
As it is well known, competitive electricity markets require new computing tools for power companies that operate in retail markets in order to enhance the management of its energy resources. During the last years there has been an increase of the renewable penetration into the micro-generation which begins to co-exist with the other existing power generation, giving rise to a new type of consumers...
Islamic financial markets are still at infant stage in Malaysian economy, thus have created dual financial systems; Shariah-compliant and conventional financial system. Capital structure determinants of Shariah-compliant (SC) and conventional companies (CC) might be different due to restriction placed on capital structure and business activities of an SC. The aim of this research is to disclose the...
This research presents a logical approach for implementing dynamic business rules based on a context-aware integrated BPM-SOA framework [18]. Specifically, a system is developed to demonstrate how Internet-based commercial lending operations with intelligent decision making can deliver faster speed, improved consistency and reliability throughout the entire lending process with scalability. With Internet-based...
Enabling computational agents to efficiently aid or automate negotiations with humans requires a recognition and understanding of differences in negotiation behavior. One important dimension of these differences is based on the cultures of the negotiators. In this work, we investigate two tasks needed to enable culturally-sensitive computational negotiation agents: (1) the identification of negotiators'...
The Earning's quality of Listed Companies is one of the focus questions for accounting information user, it is very important that studying how to analyze and evaluate it. This paper choose 24 Shanghai and Shenzhen-listed manufacturing companies in 2010 as research objects, analysis from authenticity of the profits, collectibility, the continued stability and growth, determine an index system composed...
In recent years, customer relationship management has become a serious and prevailing phenomenon, so that companies are more concern about that. The increasing companies' competition in attracting customers to sell out their productions and services and also the increase of customer power in today's competitive world cause the companies not only to search new customers but also to try to keep their...
By making an analogy with the human body, the present paper tries to underline the relations between firm's failure causes and its current situation, in terms of the syndrome that can be identified at its level. For this reason, some elements taken from medicine, such as symptoms, causes and syndromes are presented and characterized from the firm point of view. Knowing the type of syndrome and the...
The aim of this paper is to present how Net Present Value (NPV) can be used as a proper tool to ensure effective project management. The author proves that investment project's appraisal methods, such as e.g. NPV, can and should be used as an ongoing monitor of project health. What is more, even in case of project turbulences Net Present Value can be used as a key instrument for finding the most appropriate...
Based on data from 14 famous telecom operators, this study investigates factors influencing telecom operator's economic value added (EVA), thus reveal the mechanism and relationships between telecom operators' various capabilities and EVA. Factor analysis and Structural equation modeling (SEM) are used as the main analysis tools. Results show that Profitability capacity, Management capacity, and Risk...
In the context of financial storm, financial crisis early warning has become an important object of research in the field of corporate financial management. This paper collected the data from China Stock Market Trading Database (CSMAR) and sorted out the financial indices of listed companies. We first used factor analysis to select variables and extract common factors, and then established the financial...
Accounting is a science that, by studying the financial statements, search to provide information of great importance for decision-making, becoming a crucial tool for the managers of an organization. One of the existing difficulties is in the transparency and understanding of accounting data by managers. The studies in this area show the use of subjectivity on the part of financial analysts while...
GEM provides an important financing channel and a selection mechanism for the growth enterprises. Only those that meet some certain standards such as continuous profitability and growth capability can go public on GEM. In this paper, we sum up the IPO failures of GEM to analyze why they didn't successfully go public on GEM. And by this means, we try to find out the existing crucial cruxes of China's...
Business circular fluctuation, as the inherence of economic development, inevitably exerts its impact on manipulation of R&D and transfer. It is held herein that there is a sensitive interaction and co-movement between the cycle of R&D and business cycle. And business cycle is a determinant to tech-life cycle, which is a determinant to tech-transfer.
Firstly reviews related researches at home and abroad, combines related theories and author's analysis, finds out the likely determinants of internal control quality, and then collects the sample data to test them empirically. The empirical results show: the larger the size, the higher the quality of internal control; the quality of internal control will be higher if the proportion of the largest...
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