We examine the crucial policy question of whether the South African (SA) stock market values a dual board leadership structure (DBLS) using a sample of 169 listed firms from 2002 to 2007. We find a significant positive link between DBLS and market valuation, but only in firms with independent chairpersons, implying that the market values firms with independent DBLS more highly. Our results are ...

this paper investigates the connection between market valuation anda type of the merger (stock, cash) using real options setup. i solveexplicitly for the timing and terms of cash mergers in two deferent settingsto demonstrate that cash mergers generally occur at low marketvaluations, whereas stock mergers that may be observed at both low andhigh valuations; the result holds with some dierences...

Organizational boards of directors are one of the most important subgroups within most modern organizations, performing critical advisory, monitoring and resource dependence roles. This paper investigates the crucial question of whether the stock market values ethnic and gender diversity within organizational boards. We find that board diversity is positively associated with market valuation. W...

Various approaches to natural gas storage valuation applying real options theory have been developed in recent years. Postulating storage operators as price takers these methodologies ignore the important fact that most evolving gas spot markets, like the German spot market, lack of liquidity. Thus, considering storage operators as price takers does not account for interdependencies of storage ...

The online retail sales are expected to reach $191 billion in 2011 from a meager $36 billion in 2001 (Schonfeld 2010). Different business models have emerged with numerous pure-play online players (e.g., Amazon.com) competing with dual-channel (i.e., brick-and-mortar and online channel) firms (e.g., Best Buy and Wal-Mart). Online channel can reduce search costs of buyers (Bakos 1991) and provid...

Organizational boards of directors are one of the most important subgroups within most modern organizations, performing critical advisory, monitoring and resource dependence roles. This paper investigates the crucial question of whether the stock market values ethnic and gender diversity within organizational boards. We find that board diversity is positively associated with market valuation. W...

this study analyses the relationship of intellectual capital with financial performance measures of indian textile sector for a period of 10 years ranging from 2002 to 2012. for the study, corporate annual reports, especially the profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the selected companies for the relevant years have been used from cmie prowess database. value added intellectual coeffi...

Literature suggests three compensation principles for property expropriation – full, lump sum and market value. While it is difficult to judge which principle is superior, there is no doubt that everyone should be treated equally. Owners of property in Taiwan are required through valuation practices rather than by legislation to give up part of their property value in the public interest. Compe...

We examine the association between the presence of monitoring board committees (i.e., audit, nomination, and remuneration) and market valuation in South Africa using a sample of listed corporations. We find a significant positive connection between the presence of monitoring board committees and market valuation, but only in corporations that have independent monitoring board committees and/or ...