Leadership development and diversity in JSE-listed companies

The Impact Of Divestitures On Companies Share Price And Operating Performance For Companies Listed On The JSE

Dual-listed Companies

Last year, two Australian companies (BHP and Brambles) used a dual-listed company (DLC) structure to facilitate their international expansion. They joined CRA, which had entered into a similar arrangement with RTZ to form Rio Tinto in the mid 1990s. DLC structures remain quite unusual in the international context, with only a few in existence in the major countries today. They involve a company...

Earnings Management and Dividend Policy An Empirical comparison between Pakistani Listed Companies and Chinese listed Companies

The study is an effort to fiind out the impact of earnings management on dividend payout policy for two coutries that is Pakistan and China. A set of listed Companies in both of the countries have been investigated to analyze the relationship for the year 2003 to 2007 in Pakistan and 2001 to 2007 in China. Dividend policy has been measured by dividend payout. Whereas earnings management has bee...

Diversity, Inclusive Leadership, and Health Outcomes

In this time of polarization and divisiveness across increasingly diverse communities, health policy and management research offers an important insight: engaging diversity meaningfully through inclusive leadership—that embraces staff across hierarchies and engages difference perspectives so that all healthcare workers of all kinds feel they can speak up and participate...

Local Taxation and Firm Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies∗

This paper examines the effects of province corporate income tax policies on firm employment. It uses A-share listed Chinese firms’ panel data for 2004 to 2014. To control for unobservable time-varying province characteristics, we employ a quadratic function of time to approximate the effect of time-varying province heterogeneity. We also construct an instrumental variable to deal with the pote...