In this paper we examine the relationship between firm characteristics and the decision of the firm to sell in the domestic market, export and/or invest abroad. We find that globalisation of Indian firms through the sharp increase in exports and foreign direct investment can be explained by firm characteristics. Data for a set of more than 1600 Indian firms for 10 years shows that exporting and...

Many studies have demonstrated the impact of interviewers’ characteristics on applicants’ reactions in terms of their impressions of the organization and their intentions to accept the job offer. However, previous research has generally neglected the effect of interviewers’ characteristics on applicants after they join the firm. The present study, which involved a sample of 200 employees from d...

This study examines the impact of specific firm characteristics, environmental characteristics and marketing mix strategy on export marketing performance. Data were gathered via a mail survey of firms exporting from Queensland, Australia. The results indicate that firm characteristics and environmental characteristics impact significantly on both overall performance and marketing mix strategy a...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue of how the suppliers of finance to various corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance. Using different data samples from different countries, most of the studies provide evidence that ownership influence firm performance. This stu...

TABLE A-I LISTS ALL OF THE STATE VARIABLES IN THE MODEL. As some station characteristics are assumed to be fixed and ownership is assumed not to change over time, a state is firm-specific, and the value of the state variables will depend on the characteristics of the stations owned by the firm (some of which are fixed), the characteristics of the firm’s competitors (the set of competitors is fi...

This paper studies the relationship between three measures of relative earnings and firm performance based on data of 664 listed manufacturing companies in China over the period 2005-2012. It finds that (1) capital earnings relative to labor earnings and the overall average wage level relative to a firm’s average wage level had negative effects on firm performance; (2) the earnings of high-leve...

Tosi and Gomez-Mejia, (1989) suggest that the challenge of corporate governance is to set up supervisory and incentive alignment mechanisms that alter the risk and effort orientation of agents to align them with the interests of principals. The research problem is to discern the conditions that align the goals of the agent with those of the principal. These conditions will promote maximum effor...

<p>This research provided two analyses: (1) whether the firm characteristics and earnings management practices might influence amount of tax amnesty's assets presented in financial statement; (2) influenced value. There are 86 observations obtained from Indonesian public listed companies that participate amnesty program during 2016 – 2017. This used multiple regression to conduct each ana...

When a firm offers health benefits to workers, it exposes the firm to the risk of making payments when workers get sick. A firm can either pay health expenses out of its general assets, keeping the risk inside the firm, or it can purchase insurance, shifting the risk outside the firm. Using data on insurance decisions, we find that smaller firms, firms with more investment opportunities, and fi...