Corporate governance has attracted many researchers to examine the relationship between board characteristics and financial performance. This study aims determine effect of diversity, size, independence on research is panel data with number observations reaching 1,355 years observation. Financial performance measured using accounting-based market-based. It was found that presence female directo...

Prior research on demographic diversity in work teams has yielded mixed results, with the effects of team diversity ranging from positive to neutral to negative. This article shows that an improved understanding of the relationship between team diversity and team performance can be reached by considering the combined effects of team diversity and demographic social context. We hypothesized that...

In this paper, we present a synchronous multicarrier code division multiple access scheme for the uplink. We apply interleaved and block spreading schemes for Rayleigh and Rice fading channels. Enhancing diversity in the uplink is feasible by applying transmit diversity schemes. Therefore, we compare cyclic delay diversity (CDD) with the Alamouti scheme. Increasing the number of transmit antenn...

This paper considers transmit diversity schemes applied to cross-polarized linear antennas at cellular basestations, with a single linearly polarized antenna used by the mobile station receiver. The performance of SpaceTime Block Code (STBC) and Time-Delay Transmit Diversity (TDTD) is analyzed as a function of the relative orientation of the transmit and receive antennas. It is shown that power...

This study examined the impact of four dimensions of diversity—tenure, age, sex, and race— on performance in 486 retail bank branches and assessed whether employee participation in the firm’s diversity education programs influenced these relationships. Data came from archives of the demographic composition of branches, an employee attitude–satisfaction poll, and branch performance assessed as p...

The paper examines demographic and cognitive diversity at top-level management and its impact on the performance of Malaysian-listed companies (Plantation and Energy Sectors). Although many organisations aspire to be socially diverse, diversity’s consequences for organisational performance remain unclear. Do profitable firms tend to enhance board diversity or other attributes of the firm that c...

Although "valuing diversity" has become a watchword, field research on the impact of a culturally diverse workforce on organizational performance has not been forthcoming. Invoking a resource-based framework, in this study I examined the relationships among cultural (racial) diversity, business strategy, and firm performance in the banking industry. Racial diversity interacted with business str...

Frequency-domain equalization (FDE) based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion can provide a better bit error rate (BER) performance than rake combining. However, the residual inter-chip interference (ICI) is produced after MMSE-FDE and this degrades the BER performance. Recently, we showed that frequency-domain ICI cancellation can bring the BER performance close to the theoretica...