This paper, through an analysis of the relationship between internationalization and a novel concept of performance at the firm level, sheds new light on this stream of literature, as our analysis presents a new approach by examining the …

This study examined the experiential learning of professionals and empirically analyzed the learning effect. As many professional studies have pointed out, professionals must continue to learn and improve their expertise throughout their careers …

There has long been debate about whether the motives for corporate philanthropy are selfish or altruistic in nature. This study takes A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges in China from 2016 to 2019 as the research …

From the perspective of enterprise risk management(ERM), this paper adopts excess return of shareholders as a proxy variable for firm performance and divides ERM into strategic decision-making effectiveness and internal control based on the theory …

Multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is an imperative economic engine. MFP dynamism across five advanced and seven developing countries from 1996 to 2015 is analyzed, elucidating its association with financing and intangible assets. Debt is …

This paper investigates the relationship between CEO age and firm innovation measured as innovation productivity (i.e., the number of patent applications) and innovation scope (i.e., technological proximity). Using a sample of 8589 firm-years that …

This study investigates the influence of family ownership and family control on firm performance while considering the moderating effect of gender diversity. Utilising a dataset of 226 nonfinancial firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange spanning …

In the financial system, the customers’ willingness to share their data is pivotal, because otherwise, banks and insurance companies are powerless to build on customer data. The key step now is to understand whether there is such willingness and …

Twitter's massive data has been intensively explored in the stock market research in recent years as it allows researchers to relate investor sentiment and investor attention to stock performance. However, narrowing down to celebrity-like CEOs …

We empirically examine the interaction between different types of diversification (stage, industry, geography) and portfolio size, i.e., number of investee companies, in explaining venture capital (VC) funds’ returns. We study a comprehensive …

This article examines the relationship between firm age and acquisition activity and how family and non-family firms differ in the number of acquisitions they undertake. Inspired by previous research requiring firm age as a focal aspect and …

This study examines the analysts’ intentions on predicting the earnings forecasts, whether analysts predict managed or unmanaged earnings or in other words, predict accurate forecast or optimist/pessimist forecasts. This study introduces ex-post …