the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between customer equity and the performance of parsian international hotels corporation. for this reason it’s an applied and descriptive research. a review of the current literature revealed three key determinants of customer equity: (1)value equity, (2) brand equity and (3) relationship equity. in order to examine the proposed hy...

We analyze hedge fund performance using the stochastic discount factor (SDF) approach and imposing the arbitrage-free requirement to correctly value the derivatives and dynamic trading strategies used by hedge funds. Using SDFs of many asset-pricing models, we evaluate hedge fund portfolios based on style and characteristics. Without the arbitrage-free requirement, pricing errors are relatively...

Non-financial performance measures are often used for performance evaluation. They are especially relevant if the available financial performance measures not completely reflect the manager’s contribution to the firm’s total value. Then, non-financial performance measures serve as an indicator for the firm’s long-term performance and may therefore be included in incentive contracts. In the pape...

vol. 6, no. 1, 2014, ser. 66/3     extended abstract   explaining the relationship indices of the performance evaluation and rank performance with the growth of the companies   m. afshar                                          r. zamani amugheen molana higher education, abyek, qazvin   introduction        due tocompetition in the global economy and an increase in public awareness about the fin...

although organizational learning is often known as a goal, in the view of many stakeholders, the final aim of many organizations is optimization of financial results such as productivity, and  innovation is among various factors which optimizes the organizations financial performance, however, as firms seek financial performance improvement, higher profit and minimum cost, it is necessary to un...

The purpose of this paper is examining the impact of financial leverage as a mediation variable on the relationship between ownership concentration and financial corporate performance. To test the hypotheses, multiple regression analysis is used. The statistical population of this research is all listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. However, data were available only for 60 companies durin...