although one of the main reasons of brand equity importance is its strategic role to provide competitive advantage in the companies, the previous studies have paid little attention to effective internal organizational factors on brand equity. some of these factors are variables of social responsibility and corporate identity. social responsibility in recent decade has become a dominant paradigm...

The main purpose of this study was to explore whether the current corporate governance mechanisms have an impact on the company's performance in Romania. The importance of this study is given by the following reasons. Firstly, the study will contribute to the existing literature concerning corporate governance impact on firm performance of listed firms in Romania. Secondly, the result of this s...

The characteristics of firm's expansion by differentiated products and diversified products are quite different. However, the study employing absorptive capacity to examine the impacts of different modes of expansion on performance of small solar energy firms has never been discussed before. Then, a conceptual model to analyze the tension between strategies and corporate performance is proposed...

We propose an approach to optimally select corporate bond portfolios based on bond-specific characteristics (maturity, credit rating, coupon, illiquidity, past performance, and issue size) and macroeconomic conditions (recessions and macroeconomic uncertainty measures). The approach relies on a parametric specification of the portfolio weights and allows us to consider a large cross-section of ...

Traditional corporate social capital formulations have been based on a firm’s positioning within its network of market place alliances. This paper extends this model by incorporating firm status attributes of intellectual capital and corporate reputation into an integrated model for corporate social capital. An empirical study of some 155 firms in the global Information Technology sector was co...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate environmental strategy and firm value. The major finding of this study is that corporate performance with regard to environmental responsibility is related to overall firm value. Adopting an environmentally responsible strategy appears to significantly enhance corporate financial performance for all firms except thos...