Looking across the rapidly developing world, it is even more crucial for companies to benchmark their R&D investment against best international practice in their sector and to understand the ways in which their R&D investment will affect future business performance. The globalisation of technology requires a global analysis involving companies all over the world. In this study, top R&D European...

Background: Biopharmaceutical medicines represent a growing share of the global pharmaceutical market, and with many of these biopharmaceutical products facing loss of exclusivity rights, also biosimilars may now enter the biopharmaceutical market. Objectives: This study aims to identify and document which investment and development strategies are adopted by industrial players in the global bio...

Objective –This study intends to examine the relationship between investment efficiency and financial information excellence. The study is also examining the moderating impact of sustainability on the relation between excellence in financial information and investment productivity. Methodology –The cumulative measurements are 668 firm-years and are made up of 257 subsamples of underinvestment a...

Nowadays, carrying out precise stock predictions is essential for many companies in order to reduce material in storage. It allows these companies to decrease their investment in material. In the particular case of " Pool " companies, this need becomes greater since they have to maintain the quality of service as well as to minimize the investment in fixed assets. In order to make an accurate p...

Although studies on the investment effect of information technology (IT) have been proceeding, the requirements for effective IT investment are changing due to changes in the conditions and circumstances of many companies, such as diversified organization types (e.g. types of relationship between IT section and business planning section), and consideration of effectiveness of enterprise groups ...

This study focuses on the influence intellectual capital has on employees’ perceptions as related to both company investments and productivity levels. The data was obtained from 440 employees at 13 Portuguese companies. Both ANOVA and Regression Analysis were conducted in order to understand the impact three Intellectual Capital Scale components have on perceptions of investment and organizatio...

Physician entrepreneurship is on the rise; and investment by physicians in startup device companies is one manifestation of it. At the same time, there is increasing concern about potential conflicts of interest in physician business interests, given their fiduciary responsibility to their patients. There are multiple forms such investment can take. The Stark and anti-kickback statutes are rele...

The Australian coal industry has been described as being a perpetual case of ‘profitless prosperity’. This implies that foreign companies invest in low-margin mining activities with motives other than profit. It is argued that foreign investors and Japanese trading companies in particular used government investment concessions and subsidies to help create oversupply in the seaborne coal market....