In the context of Malaysian companies’ survival, potential role intended use proceeds as an influential factor remains unfamiliar. This study examines link between IPO and survival 423 listed companies over period 2000–2014. distinguishes into three segregations: growth opportunities, debt repayment, working capital. Employing Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) model, overall evidence shows a stati...

Improving the product reliability is the main concern in both manufacturing and service processes which is obtained by monitoring the reliability-related quality characteristics. Nowadays, products or services are the result of processes with dependent stages referred to as multistage processes. In these processes, the quality characteristic in each stage is affected by the quality characterist...

The biological effect of alkaline water consumption is object of controversy. The present paper presents a 3-year survival study on a population of 150 mice, and the data were analyzed with accelerated failure time (AFT) model. Starting from the second year of life, nonparametric survival plots suggest that mice watered with alkaline water showed a better survival than control mice. Interesting...

Past studies in the IT outsourcing area have examined the management of IT outsourcing relationships from a variety of perspectives. The present paper extends this line of research. In this study, we take a multi-theoretic perspective to explore factors that determine the duration of continuing IT outsourcing relationships between vendor and client firms. Five ex-ante and two expost factors tha...

Broken adaptive ridge (BAR) is a computationally scalable surrogate to $$L_0$$ -penalized regression, which involves iteratively performing reweighted $$L_2$$ penalized regressions and enjoys some appealing properties of both while avoiding their limitations. In this paper, we extend the BAR method semi-parametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model for right-censored survival data. Specifical...