An increasing proportion of corporate information takes the form of unstructured or semi-structured text. Annual reports are one of the most important external documents that discuss corporate performance and managerial priorities. This paper is aimed at visualizing textual information in corporate annual reports. Several word categorization schemes are used to extract the tone of text. Self-or...

The efficiency of corporate governance is reflected by the performance of a company, which means corporate governance has the positive and negative effects on the performance of this company. Based on the discussion of the theoretical basis of governance efficiency, this paper takes the listed company with management buyout (MBO) in China as samples and makes an empirical analysis of their gove...

Article history: Received 16 October 2014 Received in revised form 6 April 2015 Accepted 8 April 2015 Available online 22 April 2015 The primary purpose of this paper is to review the historical development of the application of IT, its relationships with corporate strategy, and its influence on corporate performance. The secondary purposes are to empirically investigate the above relationships...

I test whether corporate governance is ineffective in emerging markets by estimating the link between CEO turnover and firm performance for over 1,200 firms in eight emerging markets. I find two main results. First, CEOs of emerging market firms are more likely to lose their jobs when their firm’s performance is poor, suggesting that corporate governance is not ineffective in emerging markets. ...

In this paper, we examine the universality of “good” corporate governance practices as exemplified by the Anglo-American governance paradigm. Using a new database from Governance Metrics International featuring highly granular measures of corporate governance practices across a large number of countries for the period 2006-2011, we first find that the national cultural dimension of individualis...

this research is to examine the relationship between corporate organizational culture and financial performance in iranian ict ministry-affiliated corporations. denison's questionnaire was used to measure organizational culture while four indicators namely return on assets, return on sales, return on owner's equity ratio and operating expenses/operating income ratio were employed in a...

Following the rapid growth of mobile data services in China, the competition between mobile data service providers becomes more intensively. To gain advantage in the fierce competition, it’s very critical to service providers managing their service quality effectively, thus a comprehensive measurement instrument of service quality is needed. However, there are few studies dedicated to mobile da...