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Management and decisions in a Tongan business context
Management and decision-making are functions that enable an organisation to perform effectively and efficiently. In addition, performance measures are the means for determining how effective and efficient the organisation ...
The impact of the business case for sustainable development upon New Zealand organisations
Corporate social disclosure is the provision of information regarding the impact of an organisation upon the natural environment and society. There is no consensus in the literature as to why some organisations voluntarily ...
The Hong Kong IPO underpricing phenomenon and the underwriter reputation
The primary focus of this study is on the underpricing phenomenon in the Hong Kong IPO market. The study examines the link between the reputation of underwriters to an WO issue and the level of underpricing of that issue. ...
MBO liklihood and firm characteristics: Evidence from a data envelopment analysis
The source(s) of wealth created by managers taking a public company private in a Management Buyout (MBO) are not well understood. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to empirically test two theories on these ...
Effect of corporate diversification on firm value and performance in New Zealand
This study finds that diversified firms in New Zealand are of lower value and perform more poorly than undiversified firms, using a sample from 1993-2005. Furthermore, the lower value of diversified firms cannot be explained ...
Evaluating the relative efficiencies of Morningstar mutual funds using @RISK — A stochastic data envelopment analysis approach
Institutional and individual investors have always been interested in identifying those mutual funds that appear to outperform the market more often than not. Identification of such funds is not difficult as a simple ...
The impacts of structural adjustment programmes on the operations of the Ghana stock exchange
This study evaluates the impacts of Ghana's Structural Adjustment Programmes on the operations of the Ghana Stock Exchange from 1990 to 2001. Three main components of the adjustment programmes, namely divestiture of ...
Intellectual capital disclosures by Australian companies
Australia is shifting towards a knowledge-based economy. Even though there is an increasing emphasis on intellectual capital by Australian firms there is no mandatory intellectual capital disclosure standard. This suggests ...
Future auditors’ propensity to blow the whistle: an investigation of auditing students’ propensity to blow the whistle when faced with an ethical dilemma
This dissertation examines the relationship between an individual’s level of moral reasoning, retaliation to whistle blowing, and their propensity to blow the whistle when faced with an ethical dilemma. To test this ...