This research aims to investigate the effect of CEO characteristics (female gender, education, and age) on financing policy (interest-bearing debt total assets), investing (capital expenditure), firm performance (return assets) when it is controlled by size age. Our uses data manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in period 2010 - 2017. The results our show that female CE...

an explanatory survey was carried out in 2008 to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (eo), environmental factors, human capital and organizational characteristics vs. entrepreneurial performance among entrepreneurial firms in iranian agricultural sector. data were obtained from a sample of 120 iranian agricultural establishments, using an interview-oriented question...

the purpose of this article is to present the link among resource based theory, marketing strategy, and firms’ performance in order to propose integrative framework showing how the three constructs are linked. it is organized based on a review of academic literature on resource based theory and marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals up to december 2015. besides, the paper ref...

this study aims to investigate the current and desired situation of information and communication technologies (ict), organizational structure and firm performance in consultant engineering firms. to do so, a descriptive-exploratory study was performed among 252 managers and experts of consultant engineering firms in tehran. a cluster sampling approach was used bya self-administrated questionna...

We explore the impact of labour turnover on firm performance by analysing the predictions of an extension of the efficiency wage model of Salop (1979) developed by Garino and Martin (2007), which separates incumbent and newly hired workers in the production function. Within this theoretical framework, an exogenous increase in the turnover rate can increase profits if firms do not choose wages u...

This paper investigates how firm age affects performance. Consistent with an obsolescence of firm endowments, the existence of organizational rigidities, and the proliferation of seniority rules, performance gets worse with age. Profits fall, margins thin, sales growth drops, and costs rise. Firms do best when they are young, and roughly 15 years after listing (37 years after incorporation), th...

Corruption is a curse in Pakistan, neither public office nor any structure immune from this phenomenon. Inspired by this, the study commits to examine two significant research issues. First assesses find whether corruption greases wheel or sanding it. Second, determine what causes firms. This based on World Bank's enterprise survey, data of Pakistani tries associate effects firm performance aft...