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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...