OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the corporate governance of pharmaceutical companies on research and development (R&D) investment. METHODS The period of the empirical analysis is from 2000 to 2012. Financial statements and comments in general, and internal transactions were extracted from TS-2000 of the Korea Listed Company Association. Sample firms were th...

I introduce the concept of hybrid intermediaries: financial conglomerates that control a multiplicity of entity types active in the “assembly line” process of modern financial intermediation, a system that has become known as shadow banking. The complex bank holding companies of today are the best example of hybrid intermediaries, but I argue that financial firms from the “nonbank” space can ju...

This paper is produced as an exploratory study with the aim of carrying out a taxonomy construction companies operating in Czech Republic, taking into account type and number concluded public procurement contracts. In processing multidimensional matrix describing companies, cluster analysis was used to identify dependence between set variables. Results suggest that prevailing types procedures i...

BLAŽEK, L., PUDIL, P., ŠPALEK, J.: The factors aff ecting competitiveness of companies: contribution and limits of the statistical pattern recognition methods. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 7, pp. 69–80 The paper elaborates the methodical side of empirical research of factors infl uencing the economic success of companies. The analysis is based on the selective samp...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects debt policy, good corporate governance, cash holding, and sales growth on value company. method used in research is a quantitative through secondary data form financial information manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange starting 2018 until 2021. Data obtained from www.idx.co.id www.finance.yahoo.com, company's official webs...

Through implementation of its 2000 pharmaceutical reform, the South Korean government expected to reduce the cost of medications and improve service levels, medical appropriateness of care, and drug effectiveness. However, despite the reform's lofty goals, unintended consequences have distorted the supply of medical services and spending. These consequences have included increasing the use of u...