Field Editor: D. Shepherd This study examines the conditions under which portfolios of corporate venture capital (CVC) relationships influence corporate investor innovation performance. We investigate this question using longitudinal data on CVC investment portfolios of 40 telecommunications equipment manufacturers. We find an inverted U-shaped effect of portfolio diversity on corporate investo...

In the light of corporate social responsibility, company success is determined not only by economic performance but also by social and environmental performance. Hence, the value based environmental management improves corporate environmental performance and enhances business excellence. Th e purpose of this paper is to examine the differences in environmental performance among companies of var...

The centrality of corporate enterprises for allocating resources in the economy has sparked the recent debate among economists about the manner in which corporations should be governed to enhance economic performance. The process through which resources are developed and utilised is central to the dynamic through which successful enterprises and economies improve their performance over time as ...

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of corporate activity is difficult since it involves radically changing internal organisational behaviour patt...

The corporate databases can be linked to the Web in a manner that allows clients or employees to access to corporate data through a Web browser. This paper first describes the bridge between the Web and corporate databases and discusses a series of related concepts. Secondly, a number of linking methods and their analysis are presented. Thirdly, an example web-based application developed using ...

Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for manager misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. Thus, the effects of corporate governance should be greatest when firms become overvalued. We test this simple yet powerful idea. Using proxies of price deviations from fundamentals and standard measures of corporate governance we demonstrate that firm per...

Information security is an increasingly important concern among many corporate leaders and system managers who are responsible for computer systems. A modern Information Technology (IT) system, drastically changing the current business/management, is structured by an open system where many different disturbances (e.g., corporate secret agents, hackers and terrorists) influence the IT-based deci...

south pars assaluyeh region is one of the most heavily trafficked industrial regions in the mideast. profoundly affecting the lives of local people, specifically women. the important issue that must be taken into consideration is the corporate social responsibility which, due to the presence of large petrochemical complex companies, could have a positive impact on the lives of people, especiall...

Article history: Received 1 August 2015 Received in revised form 1 December 2015 Accepted 1 February 2016 Available online 17 March 2016 Prior research on the association between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) includes conflicting perspectives and inconclusive findings as to whether or not CSP has a positive, negative, or neutral associationwith CFP...