ABSTRACT The study analyzed the association between environmental, social and governance (ESG) life cycle stages of Brazilian publicly-traded companies listed on B3 S.A. - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão (B3) from 2010 to 2020. It explores a theoretical gap regarding relationship ESG initiatives in Brazil, an emerging country. findings are relevant for understanding how act as signals level actions marke...

In this paper, a newly emerging duopoly market with a short life cycle is analyzed. The partially known information of market is characterized by the possibility distribution of the parameter in the demand function. Since the life cycle of the new product is short, how many products should be produced by two rival firms is a typical one-shot decision problem. Within the one-shot decision framew...

This essay examines market liquidity and underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the wake Chi- Next board's financial reform June 2020. The results show that IPO has grown improved since reform. channel by which affects can be explained investor sentiment. impact on also other firm-level characteristics, such as leverage firm life cycle.

This study concerns the integration of electronic commerce networks into the “sales” processes of small firms. Specifically, this study focuses on integration of an electronic commerce (EC) network in those business processes leading up to an actual sales order. We examined seventeen small firms at the end of their first year of participation in an inter-organizational electronic network that m...

Industry life-cycle research on firm survival concentrates on the effects of entry timing, pre-entry experience, and innovativeness. However, findings on how these effects change over different stages of the life cycle are scarce. To fill this gap, we perform a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis on a dataset of 58 video game device producers in six product generations. We find that both...

Business Process (BP) analysis aims to investigate properties of BPs by performing simulation, diagnosis and verification with the goal of supporting BP Management (BPM). In this paper, we propose a framework for BPM that relies on the BP Modeling Notation (BPMN). More specifically, we first introduce a method to deal with the BPM life cycle. Then, we discuss a platform to support this life cyc...

It is widely held that new ventures experience different kinds of problems as they grow and mature. This so-called life cycle or stage model of organizational growth has received considerable empirical support (Dodge & Robbins, 1992; Hanks & Chandler, 1994; Kazanjian, 1988; Kazanjian & Drazin, 1989). Most previous studies of the life-cycle model have identified or examined different types of pr...

We examine the effect of financial dependence on the acquisition and investment of singlesegment and conglomerate firms at different stages of the industry life cycle. Conglomerates and single-segment firms differ in acquisition activity more than in the level of capital expenditure across all stages. Financial dependence, a deficit in a segment’s internal financing, decreases the likelihood of...

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