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South African Journal of Business Management, 1995 In this article we consider the use of debt by South African firms. There are two possible uses of debt: firstly, it is a method of raising finance and secondly, a method of corporate governance. Within the South African corporate environment it is not clear whether firms would use debt for both or either of these purposes.
Davidson, Sinclair, Rapp, Laurence
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FACTORS AFFECTING RETURN ON ASSETS OF US TECHNOLOGY AND FINANCIAL CORPORATIONS
Jurnal Manajemen dan Wirausaha, 2019 The research studies the relationship between eight firm-specific factors on the profitability of U.S. technology and financial firms. The study used multiple linear panel regression models, namely, ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects (FE) and ...
John Francis Diaz, Rudresh Pandey
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BANK LENDING TO NON-FINANCIAL CORPORATIONS IN ROMANIA DURING 2016-2025 [PDF]
Financial StudiesBank lending to non-financial corporations has long been an important source of financing investments in the real economy, especially in European countries. However, following the outbreak of the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2009, the share of lending to
Andrei RĂDULESCU
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Interesy państw a działalność amerykańskich korporacji międzynarodowych w latach 60. i 70. XX wieku
Politeja, 2015 The national interests and the activities of the American international corporations in the 1960s and 1970s The main purpose of the article is to analyze the influence of international corporations on both domestic and foreign policy of the home and ...
Paulina Matera
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Using corporate stories to build the corporate brand: an impression management perspective [PDF]
Journal of Product & Brand Management, 2013 Purpose – A recent area of academic interest within corporate branding and reputation is the use of storytelling in order to differentiate the corporate brand, however there is little empirical research exploring the contents of corporate stories, and how they are used by organisations to build the corporate brand. This paper aims to utilise impression
Spear, Sara, Roper, Stuart
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Medical Tourism in the Caribbean Islands: A Cure for Economies in Crisis? [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2013 Small island states have increasingly sought new means of economic diversification. Several Caribbean states have begun to develop medical tourism, partly building on existing tourist-oriented economies.
John Connell
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Trump's Deja Vu China Trade War
World Review of Political Economy, 2018 The Trump administration is pursuing a “dual track” trade offensive. Track One, announced with US steel-aluminum tariffs, seeks token adjustments to preexisting trade terms with allies in NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), Europe, South Korea ...
Jack Rasmus
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Approaches to locating expertise using corporate knowledge [PDF]
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 2002 AbstractIn many organizations people need to locate colleagues with knowledge and information to resolve a problem. Computer‐based systems that assist users with finding such expertise are increasingly important to industrial organizations. In this paper we discuss the development of Expertise Finders suitable for use within the engineering design ...
Crowder, Richard +2 more
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Revista Galega de Economía, 2015 This article presents the results of a survey carried out in ten sugar and ethanol mills, which were grouped into three categories: closely-held corporations, publicly-held corporations and companies controlled by an international group.
ROBERTO LOUZADA
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Corporate innovation and corporate governance: A study of US firms
Corporate Ownership and Control, 2009 The paper relates corporate governance to firm’s total factor productivity growth of U.S. firms from 1990 to 2004. Given technological constraints, some firms are very efficient whereas others are not and some firms have much faster rates of innovation and productivity growth than others.
Saurav Roychoudhury, Alexei Egorov
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