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Cost Stickiness, Firm’s Dividend Payouts, and Family Ownership

Lahore Journal of Economics
Our study enriches the growing literature on cost stickiness in the context of an emerging economy. The study examines the relationship between cost stickiness and dividend payout behavior in Pakistan, and the possibility of their being a moderating ...
Ali Amin, Ramiz ur Rehman, Ali Amin
doaj  

Reducing asymmetric cost behaviors: Evidence from digital innovation

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study quantifies the impact of digital innovation on corporate performance, offering insights into the sustainability of digital innovation’s impact and providing guidance for firms embarking on their digital innovation journey.
Xinyi Du, Kangqi Jiang, Xian Zheng
doaj   +1 more source

Confucian culture and cost stickiness

Accounting & Finance
AbstractCultural features may exert significant impact on firm behaviour. Through a sample of listed A‐share firms on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, we find that Confucian culture may significantly lower firms' cost stickiness. Our mechanism tests suggest that ideologies of self‐discipline and prudence embedded in Confucian culture may ...
Ailing Pan, Hui Wang, Lei Xu
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Facing Obsolescence: Component Repair and Collaboration in the Independent ICT Commercial Repair Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Repairs are becoming more difficult to perform due to multiple factors, including obsolescence, complexity of designs, technological change and lack of information and spare parts. This underlines a conflict between repair and technological designs driven by accumulation logics that require increasing growth rates.
Francisco López‐Bermúdez, Xavier Vence   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO overconfidence and cost stickiness

Management Control & Accounting, 2015
Cost stickiness occurs when costs decrease less when sales fall than they increase when sales rise. Prior literature provides both economic and agency explanations of sticky costs. Our study tackles this cost behaviour from a managerial behavioural perspective.
Qin, B., Mohan, A.W., Kuang, Y.F.
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The Strategic Logic of Biodiversity: Why Firms Invest in Nature‐Based Initiatives

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss poses profound strategic and operational challenges for firms, yet management research offers limited evidence on which organisational mechanisms effectively reduce corporate biodiversity impacts. This study introduces the Biodiversity Strategy Configuration Framework (BSCF) to enhance the understanding of firm‐level ...
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

From critique to catalyst: How academic entrepreneurs transform negative feedback into pivots and performance

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study examines how academic entrepreneurs refine business ideas in response to external critique and how these responses relate to performance. We develop a framework that links feedback (critique), business‐idea changes (pivots), and performance, and test it using detailed data on external stakeholder feedback, changes ...
D. Carrington Motley, Michael Leatherbee, Riitta Katila   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sodium‐Based Battery Component Design: Imitating Lithium or Forging New Paths?

Small, EarlyView.
This Perspective elucidates the decisive yet underexplored impact of cation chemistry, Na+ vs. Li+ charge carriers, on the design, selection, and formulation of their corresponding battery systems, addressing common misconceptions and the pitfalls of overreliance on Li+ design principles. Leveraging the unique characteristics of Na+, it comprehensively
Xingxing Wang, Ziyu Song, Wenfang Feng, Moritz Schütte, Sascha Berg, Feng Cai, Viviane Maccio‐Figgemeier, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Stefano Passerini, Michel Armand, Zhibin Zhou, Egbert Figgemeier, Heng Zhang, Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu   +13 more
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A Dual‐Mode Photoconductive Colorimetric Wearable UV‐Dosimeter: Strategies for Tunable UV‐Band Sensitivity

Small, EarlyView.
The harmful ultraviolet component of sunlight necessitates reliable and wavelength‐selective personal UV monitoring technologies. Here, thermally evaporated CuBr thin films enable dual‐mode UV dosimetry through persistent photoconductive and colorimetric responses arising from charge trapping and surface oxide formation.
Suman Kundu, Aneeta Jaggernauth, Robert O'Connor, Rajani K. Vijayaraghavan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Product Market Reforms Work? Assessing Regulatory Changes Impacting Competition

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We create a new dataset that characterizes studies of product market reforms implemented from 1932 to 2011. We examine the size and origins of differences in estimated impacts based on an OECD classification scheme for potentially competitive restrictions of regulation. The median impact from switching to a pro‐competitive environment is a 19%
Sean F. Ennis, Selvin Thanacoody
wiley   +1 more source