This study investigates the moderating effect of firm size in the relationship between corporate governance (board size, board independence and ownership concentration) and banks’ risk-taking (insolvency risk and credit risk). Secondary data (annual reports) was collected from a sample of 21 Malaysian commercial banks covering the 2005–2014 accounting period. An empirical model using pooled ord...

This purpose of this paper is to explain the mediating role inter-firm coopetition in relationships between competition and firm performance, cooperation performance. Studies on effects coopetitive have mainly been based developed economies, with a few focusing developing economies. Further, provides an assessment how affects performance context countries, specifically, emerging among digital f...

Fee-based membership free shipping is an important shipping fee schedule in E-Commerce. This paper studies how the membership free shipping (MFS) program affects firm competition and how to set the membership fee optimally. We find MFS relaxes price competition. The firm that adopts MFS has a higher pricing band than the other firm. Both firms have positive profits, strictly better than when me...

We study empirically and analytically growth and fluctuation of firm size distribution. An empirical analysis is carried out on a US data set on firm size, with emphasis on one-time distribution as well as growth-rate probability distribution. Both Pareto’s law and Gibrat’s law are often used to study firm size distribution. Their theoretical relationship is discussed, and it is shown how they ...