Evolutionary correlations between functionally related character suites are expected as a consequence of coadaptation due to physiological relationships between traits. However, significant correlations may also exist between putatively unrelated characters due to shared relationships between those traits and underlying variables, such as body size. Although such patterns are often dismissed as...

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of diversification, corporate governance intellectual capital on sustainability performance, either directly or indirectly, by involving financial performance as a mediating variable. uses secondary data Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia which are registered with Financial Services Authority from 2011 - 2018, sample size 10 banks that meet c...

This study examines the influence of country and industry factors on the cross-sectional variance and correlation structure of returns. I use new data on emerging markets’ stocks obtained from the Emerging Markets Data Base. I find that emerging markets’ returns are mainly driven by country factors, as it was shown previously in studies for mature markets, and that cross-market correlation is n...

This paper examines the effectiveness of strategic planning in commercial banks and how management styles influence (or reflect influences) on diversification decisions within bank markets. The research is based on and further develops a framework proposed by Goold and Campbell (1987) and Goold et al. (1994) by testing the strategic response of banks to changes in their growth opportunities. Ch...

Aim Size is one of the most important and obvious traits of an organism.Both small and large sizes have adaptive advantages and disadvantages. Body size–frequency distributions of most large clades are unimodal and right skewed. Species larger than the mean or range midpoint of body sizes are relatively scarce. Theoretical models suggest evolutionary rates are higher in small organisms with sho...

in this study it has been initiated to find out the credit strength and financial performance of cement industries in bangladesh through investigating the financial report for the period from 2007 to 2011. financial ratios are employed to measure the liquidity (working capital to total assets), profitability (retained earnings to total assets), efficiency (earnings before interest and taxes to ...

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...

In the presence of corporate taxes and default costs, mergers can realize purely financial synergies due to reduced risk and the potential for greater leverage, as suggested by Lewellen (1971). But his conclusion that mergers always create positive financial synergies is incorrect: when firms have quite different risks or default costs, the loss from no longer being able to fit different capita...

Financial liberalisation has offered global investors with new investment opportunities via international portfolio diversification. Proper investment planning as well as portfolio diversification and rebalancing require low correlations between the assets under consideration. In general, correlations between countries have increased during the global financial crisis due to contagion, interdep...