firm size and its impact on the firm performance examined in all of economics historical periods from different point of view. meanwhile, productivity is one the most important performance index for each firm, therefore so many studies tries to survey firm size impact on it. in iran also, economics literature replete with productivity studies but the impact of size on it rarely seen between the...

Optimal working capital management can positively effect on the Firm performance, but this relationship can be affected by major characteristics of the firm, making an important subject for research. This research investigates the moderating role of firm characteristics on the relation between working capital management and financial performance of the firms listed in TSE during 2008 – 2017 per...

development of technological capability is one of the effective methods for promoting the firm competitive performance. transfer of suitable technology help the firm to make a strong position in its industry faster than using in-house r&d.; successfulness of a firm based on technology transfer process can be measured with different scales such as measurement of firm competitive performance thro...

employee-customer-profit(ecp) chain is one of the guidelines for organizations‘success in their life cycle. strong relationships have been found betweenemployees' attitudes and behaviors, employees' behaviors and customers'impressions, and customers' impressions and revenue growth. out of this chain,there are some factors that can influence the processes through which these factorsinteract. one...

in this study, the relationships between human resource practices (hrps), firm performance (service quality), and the mediation effects of employees’ abilities were examined. to assess the relationships between variables, before evaluating the fitted structural model, the measurement model was defined to verify that the measurement variables used to reflect the unobserved constructs do so in a ...

Performance appraisal is a process which help shareholders make informed and optimal investment decisions. In recent decades, a long stream of research has devoted particular attention to the importance and impact of financial decisions on firm performance and firm value. The present study thus is primarily concerned with investigating the association between free cash flow and institutional ow...

this study addresses executive compensation from shareholders perspective by empirically examining the effects of chief executive officer (ceo) compensation on firm performance subsequent to the year of compensation. three factors of ceo compensation are examined, size, total annual compensation; form percentage of total compensation comprised of cash, cash bonuses and stock; and sensitivity. t...

Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less cooperation and more politicking amongst workers resulting in worse outcomes. We try to shed light on these issues using panel data for Austrian firms....

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. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of monitoring and incentive contracts given certain characteristics of the firm. That ...