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Elert, Niklas. "Economic dynamism : essays on firm entry and firm growth." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-34804.
Full textMacuchova, Zuzana. "Essays on firm dynamics in the Swedish wholesale trade sector." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Kulturgeografi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-17402.
Full textMwangi, Edwin. "The impact of derivative use on firm risk and firm value. Evidence from South African non-financial firms." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32923.
Full textHalvarsson, Daniel. "Firm Dynamics : The Size and Growth Distribution of Firms." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Samhällsekonomi (Stängd 20130101), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118333.
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Warren-Codrington, Alastair. "Trade liberalization and firm dynamics evidence from Indian firms." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12195.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references.
This paper aims to investigate the firm level effects from the removal of trade barriers. It uses firm level data on Indian firms, and employs simple but effective specifications aimed to analyze the differential effects in sales and prices of goods previously quota bound compared to unbound products.
Häussler, Carolin. "Inter-firm collaboration : valuation, contracting, and firm restructuring /." Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 2005. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=3824483335.
Full textMasinde, Catherine Kadenyeka Madete. "Developing SMEs through large firm-small firm linkages." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/694/.
Full textSharapov, Dmitry. "Firm-level and contextual influences on firm performance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610869.
Full textMeng, Qingrui. "Delayed credit rating changes, firm financing and firm performance." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3426/.
Full textMacau, Flávio Romero. "Knowledge effect on firm performance in manufacturing and service firms." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/4509.
Full textThis thesis seeks to examine the difference between manufacturing and service firms with respect to the effects of knowledge on performance, and the influence of market turbulence in this relationship. Empirical data, resulting from a survey, was collected from more than 1,206 firms, involving several sectors. Two samples were analyzed, one with 334 manufacturing and other with 509 service firms. The findings indicate no significant difference in the importance of knowledge on performance between these sectors in the absence of market turbulence: knowledge development (KD) has a stronger effect than culture of competitiveness (CC) on firm performance. However, under market turbulence, manufacturers differ from service providers. The positive effect of KD is enhanced, while the positive effect of CC remains the same for manufacturing firms. On the other hand, the positive effect of KD is diminished, while the positive effect of CC is enhanced for service firms. This supports the argument concerning differences in the nature of manufacturing and service industries. From a managerial point of view, results confirm the importance of knowledge, irrespective of firm sector or market turbulence. However, while industrial firms should center efforts on KD, service firms must find a balance where knowledge development (e.g. norms, processes, routines) does not impair their culture of competitiveness (e.g. learning, innovation, action). The thesis contributes to existing literature by proposing that: (1) the positive effect of knowledge on performance is confirmed; (2) under turbulent markets manufacturing and service firms have different responses concerning the influence of knowledge on performance; (3) a multidimensional performance construct based on cost, profitability, and growth is an interesting way to evaluate firm sustained competitive advantage, rather than one-dimensional constructs; (4) the CC x KD interaction, found relevant for supply chains in previous studies, is not supported for firms; (5) differences in unit of analysis, e.g. from supply chains to firms, result in different effects of KD and CC on firm performance; (6) existing scales can be improved with the addition of more diverse indicators, capturing a wider range of concepts (e.g. information transfer measurement); and (7) results from previous studies are supported for Brazilian firms, contributing for theory generalization.
Litvinova, Maria. "Essays on Firm Boundaries and Firm Organization in Transition countries." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368510.
Full textLitvinova, Maria. "Essays on Firm Boundaries and Firm Organization in Transition countries." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2016. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1890/1/PhDthesis_Litvinova_19Dec.pdf.
Full textHåkansson, Johan, Zuzana Macuchova, and Rudholm Niklas. "Predicting entry of Swedish wholesale firms into local markets." Högskolan Dalarna, Kulturgeografi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-12227.
Full textKazeminia, Ali. "Firm Sustained Growth." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/301631.
Full textEsta tesis responde a la pregunta “¿cómo pueden crecer de forme sostenible las empresas en contextos dinámicos?”, que es una de las cuestiones fundamentales en la literatura de estrategia. La tesis está formada por tres estudios sobre varios aspectos del crecimiento de las empresas. El primer estudio presenta un estudio teórico sobre “cómo” se produce el crecimiento de empresa utilizando la perspectiva de “open-systems” y “resource-based view”. Básicamente describe cómo los recursos crecen y clarifica las características de ese crecimiento. El estudio finaliza con una discusión sobre la heterogeneidad de los recursos de las empresas. El segundo estudio aporta un estudio empírico sobre el tema tratado en el primer artículo y describe el crecimiento sostenible del consorcio Airbus a lo largo de 20 años (entre 1967 y 1986). El estudio muestra cómo la acumulación incremental de recursos centrada en la estrategia de “comunalidad” ha contribuido al crecimiento sostenido de Airbus. Además, el estudio presenta dos períodos de crecimiento: (1) la creación y establecimiento durante la primera década, y (2) otros avances tecnológicos posteriores. Finalmente, el último estudio ofrece una teoría sobre la terminación inesperada de una alianza y cómo ésta interrumpe el crecimiento de la empresa, donde el divorcio lleva la empresa a la crisis. El artículo argumenta cómo la empresa puede superar la crisis y volver a las condiciones de crecimiento a través de la gestión de sus recursos. El estudio presenta cómo la velocidad de cambio de los recursos puede contribuir a la gestión de los recursos en crisis.
The thesis responds to the question ´how do firms grow sustainably in dynamic environments´ as one of the fundamental questions in strategy literature. It provides three concrete studies in addressing various aspects of firm´s growth: the first study provides a theoretical study on the how of firm growth drawing on open-system perspective and resource-based view. It basically describes how firm´s resources grow and clarifies the characteristics that resources show over time. The study is finalized by discussions on the heterogeneity of firms´ resources. The second study provides an empirical support for the first study and provides an empirical case on the successful and sustained growth of Airbus consortium over 20 years from 1967 to 1986. The study shows how the incremental accumulation of resources with a focus on commonality strategy has contributed to the sustained growth of Airbus. In addition, the study shows two periods of growth (1) sparks and establishment in the first decade of Airbus growth and (2) further technological advances afterwards. Finally, the last study provides a theory of an unexpected dissolved alliance interrupting the firm growth where the divorce directs the firm into crisis. It discusses how the firm can pass the crisis and return to its growth condition through the management of its resources. The study discusses how the change speed of resources could contribute to the management of resources in crisis.
Richter, Nicole. "Internationalisation and firm performance an empirical analysis of German manufacturing firms." Hamburg Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000543315/04.
Full textWang, Lina, and Qiong Wu. "Enterprises Internationalize with Firm-specific Advantages : Case Study of Swedish Firms." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2538.
Full textBusiness has changed and developed fast and drastically through internationalization, which has drawn many scholars’ attentions. The dissertation will focus on the firm-specific advantages (FSAs) which allow firms to go to the international markets.
The theoretical framework of this dissertation contains four proxies of the firm’s specific advantages, including entrepreneur, market knowledge, network, and technology. In this dissertation, this framework will guide us to collect and analyze the empirical data.
The qualitative research strategy is employed in this dissertation. Utilizing the multiple case study, we choose two sample companies, both from Halmstad. The empirical data was gathered through semi-structured personal interviews. Data was also supplemented with secondary data, such as web pages and scientific articles.
The finding of this dissertation is that market knowledge and experience is a crucial, firm-specific advantage, which facilitates firm’s international expansion. In addition, the entrepreneur and network variables also have an impact on the internationalization process in direct or indirect ways. However, the study does not find obvious evidence that technology does help firms go to the foreign markets a lot.
Rasel, Fabienne [Verfasser], and Irene [Akademischer Betreuer] Bertschek. "ICT, Complementary Firm Strategies and Firm Performance / Fabienne Rasel. Betreuer: Irene Bertschek." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2016. http://d-nb.info/110469803X/34.
Full textVU, Thi Bich Lien. "Small Privately-Owned and Large State-Owned Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam: A Productivity Comparison for 2000-2005." 名古屋大学大学院経済学研究科, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20474.
Full textStrecker, Nanja. "Innovation strategy and firm performance : an empirical study of publicly listed firms /." Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994651236/04.
Full textArslan, Safa. "HRM and firm performance : an investigation of Turkish mid-size IT firms." Thesis, Aston University, 2017. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/31753/.
Full textKim, Huong Trang. "Financial derivatives use and firm value in East Asian non-financial firms." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2016. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/21375/.
Full textTefera, Basazinew. "Effects of derivative use on firm value: Evidence from Nordic financial firms." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-139431.
Full textVan, Zyl Wiehann. "The new product development process : small firm success by studying larger firms." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/925.
Full textStrecker, Nanja. "Innovation strategy and firm performance an empirical study of publicly listed firms." Wiesbaden Gabler, 2007. http://d-nb.info/994651236/04.
Full textDiggelmann, Karin. "Firm Ownership and Performance." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01649581002/$FILE/01649581002.pdf.
Full textSprenger, Carsten. "Ownership and firm behavior." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7350.
Full textThe thesis studies the evolution of the ownership structure of companies and its effects on real economic outcomes. Chapter 1 provides an empirical analysis of the large-scale privatization in Russia in the 1990s. A comprehensive data set of 530 Russian manufacturing firms is used to estimate determinants of the decision to privatize a firm, of the choice among different options of privatization, the resulting initial ownership distribution, and its further evolution. Chapter 2 studies the effects of conflicting interests of shareholders on investment decisions and share trade in a simple model. In a setting with incomplete financial markets, the wealth, initial stake and preferences of owners affect their preferred level of investment. Decisions on investment are taken by majority. Two extensions, a protection for minority shareholders and private benefits of control, allow us to analyze the impact of corporate governance arrangements on investment decisions and ownership structure. The model predictions for the evolution of ownership are in line with the empirical observations in chapter 1.
Scott, Morton Fiona. "Firm pricing and entry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11958.
Full text"Intra-Firm and Inter-Firm Agglomeration: The Location Decisions of Multi-Unit Firms." Doctoral diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38502.
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Doctoral Dissertation Business Administration 2016
"Financial development and firm growth: a firm-level panel analysis of Latin American firms." 2012. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549107.
Full text然而,與過往的公司層面研究不同,金融發展對比較大型公司的正面影響,相對小型公司之影響為大。這結果與較近期的研究指在新興市場中,金融發展會不成比例地刺激本來因政治或其他因素與金融體系比較密切的公司相符。未來研究應注重這些市場的獨特性以求更透徹地了解箇中機制。
This thesis revisits the finance-growth nexus at the firm level. Using a new dataset based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey conducted in 2006 and 2010 covering six Latin American countries, financial development is found to have a positive effect on both the level of firm sales and labor productivity, after controlling for other macroeconomic changes and unobserved firm-specific effects in a panel-data estimation, reinforcing previous similar studies at the firm level, which relied only on cross-sectional data.
However, in contrast to earlier firm level cross-sectional researches, it is discovered that financial development exerts a greater positive effect on larger firms relative to smaller ones. This is consistent with more recent studies that finance disproportionately spurs growth of firms that are originally more connected to the financial system for political or other reasons in the context of emerging markets. Future researches should point to the uniqueness of these markets to understand more thoroughly the mechanism behind.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Tsang, Wai Him.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-72).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Abstract --- p.ii
擇要 --- p.iii
Acknowledgements --- p.iv
Table of Contents --- p.v
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2 --- Motivation --- p.6
Chapter 2.1 --- Revisiting the finance-growth connection at the firm-level with a new dataset --- p.13
Chapter 2.2 --- The distributional effects associated with financial development --- p.18
Chapter 3 --- Data Set and Methodology --- p.25
Chapter 3.1 --- The Data --- p.25
Chapter 3.2 --- Specifications --- p.28
Chapter 4 --- Results --- p.32
Chapter 4.1 --- Baseline Regressions --- p.32
Chapter 4.2 --- Robustness Check by Splitting Samples --- p.37
Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.40
Chapter 6 --- Figures and Tables --- p.42
Chapter 7 --- References --- p.69
Wang, Chih-Yang, and 王志洋. "Family-Controlled Firms Characteristics and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38316413383312019138.
Full text輔仁大學
會計學系碩士班
99
This paper comparing the performance of family-controlled firms versus nonfamily-controlled firms and the determinants of affecting family-controlled operation performance. This paper combines two points of view based on agency theory and stewardship theory to explore the effect of family-controlled firm performance. Based on the sample of 1,237 Taiwan listed, OTC and ROTC firms from 1996 to 2010, our results suggest that family-controlled firms are significantly better performers than nonfamily-controlled firms. Moreover, we also find professional management governance firms are significantly better performers than family-controlled firms. This empirical result is consistent with the alignment effect argument. The impact of family business performance determinants, we found family control shareholding have a positive impact for the accounting performance mainly from family members of the direct shareholding. Family directors and market performance are in a negative relationship. The family members as chairman and CEO no significant correlation with the performance. We find positive effect institutional ownership is positively associated with firm performance. We also find foreign financial institutional ownership is positively associated with stock market-based measures of firm performance only. The family-controlled firms with higher deviation of control from cash-flow rights are underperforming.
Wu, Chun-Min, and 吳春敏. "Internationalization, Firm Innovation, and Firm Performance: The Role of Board Structure of Taiwanese Listed Firms." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37736438645354839862.
Full text國立中央大學
企業管理學系碩士在職專班
99
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the moderating effects of board of director characteristics on the performance and innovation implications of internationalization. I use four board of director characteristics: (1) percentage of insiders on the board, (2) separation of chairman and CEO, (3) board size, and (4) outside director ownership. Using a sample of Taiwanese listed firms, I document that: (1) the percentage of outside directors’ shareholders is positively related to the performance implication of internationalization, (2) the percentage of insider directors is negatively related to the performance and innovation implications of internationalization, and (3) multinational firms which CEO is also the chairman of the board enjoy stronger performance implication of internationalization.
Huang, Shiang-Wen, and 黃驤汶. "Divestitures, Firm Resources and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45078492292057773410.
Full text國立雲林科技大學
企業管理系
102
The competition of business surrounding has been drastic day by day. For the purpose of maintaining the position in the market, companies must build up appropriate investing strategies for firming marketing competitiveness. However, when companies encounter hardship in the period of investing activities or are unable to meet expected performance, they sometimes choose to enforce divestitures so as to relieve the disadvantageous level of financial degeneration. Our research study companies’ performance influenced by divestitures from perspectives of four main resources, technological resources, marketing resources, internal financial resources and external financial resources. The samples are publicly traded companies in Taiwan and the studying period of our research is from 2001 to 2013. The financial data is gathered from Taiwan Economic Journal. The studying result shows that there is significantly positive abnormal return before the day of divestiture. As for the consequence of regress analysis, only external financial resources help to enhance firm performance after implementing divestitures. On the contrary, other resources cause no significant influences after divestitures. Hence, companies will get better performance under the condition of possessing more external financial resources. On the whole, investors are convinced that divestitures will create enterprise value and bestow positive evaluation on stock prices. In addition, companies with more external financial resources will promote the performance of divestitures and it appears that investors consider companies can settle debts, program financial affairs and conduct other investment through the profit earned from previous investment and capital acquired from bond market.
李貫逢. "Firm Cash Holdings and Firm Innovation Strategies." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98pbdt.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
會計學系
105
This paper is to examine how the different levels of cash holdings affect firm innovation. Previous literatures indicate that firms with large cash holdings are able to smooth their R&D activities, because when firms terminate their R&D activities, they have to take high adjustment costs. When the firms in the industries with intensive innovation activities hold less cash, they may not able to maintain their R&D activities. Therefore, they have to rely on another innovation activities, such as acquiring ownership of external patents, acquiring patent license, or infringing patents. In this paper, we try to explore how the different levels of cash holdings affect on firm innovation. Furthermore, different innovation strategies have different impacts on firm performance. We also examine how the different levels of cash holdings and innovation activities affect on firm value. By investigating S&P 900 firms from 1980-2015, we find that firms with higher level of cash holding will invest more R&D activities. Most interestingly, we find that firms with higher level of lagged cash holding will invest less external patents, in terms of patent ownership acquisition. We also find that firms holding high level of cash and investing more R&D activities will have good future earnings performance.
Xiong, De Chang, and 熊德昌. "Executive Appointment, Firm Characteristic and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y43m8s.
Full text臺中技術學院
會計資訊系會計與財稅碩士班
99
The purposes of this study are to investigate: (1) the relationship between appointmentsof executive management team with the public sector experience and firm characteristics;(2)the relationshipbetweenfirm performances and appointmentsof executive management team with the public sector experience. The samples are the listed, OTC, and emerging stock companies in Taiwan.The empirical results show that the higher the percentage of shares held by government, the higher the percentage ofappointmentsof executive management team with the public sector experience. Furthermore, the higher the percentage ofappointmentsof executive management team with the public sector experience, the better the firm performances.
GUO, WAN-YUN, and 郭宛畇. "The Impact of Firm Leverage on Firm Performance in M&As:The Comparison between Family Firms and Non-Family Firms in Taiwan." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r44h84.
Full text東海大學
財務金融學系
107
This study is to explore the impact of leverage ratio of family and non-family firms on mergers and acquisitions performance. Using event-study methodologies with 940 mergers and acquisitions samples in Taiwan from January 2000 to December 2017. Firstly, we find that leverage deficit around mergers is significantly positively correlated with the mergers and acquisitions abnormal returns, on the average, family firms have underleverage, and non-family firms have over-leverage. Second, we investigate that leverage deficit affects mergers and acquisitions abnormal returns, results show that leverage deficit will positively affect short-term cumulative abnormal returns, while in the long run, leverage deficit will negatively affect cumulative abnormal returns. Using financial variables, corporate governance variables and merger and acquisition variables. We find that leverage deficit has a significant positive impact on cumulative abnormal returns during the short-term announcement date of mergers and acquisitions, Finally, we explore whether the family controls and leverage deficit affect abnormal returns. The results show that when the family controls is between 40% and 50%, there is a positive that leverage deficit has a significant positive impact on cumulative abnormal returns.
ONG, CHUAN-FANG, and 王傳芳. "ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND FIRM PERFORMANCES OF MULTINATIONAL CONSTRUCTION FIRMS." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2v6548.
Full text國立臺灣大學
土木工程學研究所
106
Growing attention on environmental protection has triggered drastic changes in the corporate practices of construction firms. Several studies have shown that multinational construction firms have been relatively proactive in environmental management. However, the relationships between environmental management, degree of internationalization, and financial outcomes are not fully comprehended. This study targets on multinational construction firms and the main goals of this study are to explore relationship between environmental strategy and degree of internationalization; examine the relationship between environmental practices and financial performance; and examine the moderating effect of regional diversification on the relationship between environmental practices and the financial performance. Primarily, these relationships were established drawing from three profound management theories, Resource-based view explain how firms acquire competitive advantages from environmental management, transaction cost and organizational learning are two main perspectives that articulated firm performances with internationalization. In total, 61 samples of multinational construction firms are drawn from the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top International Contractor list published in 2012. Content analysis was used to extract and measure the degree of proactivity of environmental management disclosed through environmental reporting. Financial and accounting information is collected through secondary data disclosed in Datastream database. Degree of internationalization is measured based on investment intensity, geographical extensity, and geographical concentration. In addition, the study adopted three different analysis approaches to achieve the targeted goals. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and other similar extension methods, stepwise regression, and moderated regression analysis are consecutively carried out to analyze the relationships that related to the goals. Three clusters of environmental strategies have emerged from the statistical clustering which depict reactive, preventive, and proactive postures in strategic environmental management. The results denote that construction firms which are proactive in strategic environmental management would have improved internationalization to an extent where further proactivity would deem irrelevant to internationalization, and proactive firms would more likely to have greater geographical portfolio distribution in developed countries. In regards of financial performances, five environmental management practices have been revealed to significantly associated with financial performances. These practices include pollution abatement on-site, environmental scanning, management systems and procedures, environmental innovation, and stakeholder engagement. Nonlinear relationships have been detected on both pollution abatement on-site (U-curve) and environmental innovation (inverted U-shaped). These findings can assist construction firms in determining the key environmental management practices that are able to enhance their competitive edge. Furthermore, regional diversification is adopted as a moderator, forming interaction terms with environmental management practices such as pollution abatement on-site, environmental scanning, and environmental innovation to examine the impacts on financial performances. The results suggest regional diversification can be either positively or negatively moderate the relationships between environmental management and financial performances, and it depends on whether the benefits of internationalization outweigh the costs of internationalization. In a nutshell, this study provides theoretical support and empirical evidences on the linkages between environmental management, internationalization, and financial performances. Besides, it also contributes to the growing body of evidence that environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly vital to the operations of construction firms, and proper strategic environmental management can enhance a firm’s competitive advantage in the global market.
Wu, Chun-Lin, and 巫俊霖. "Firm Size, Business Group, Innovation and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21529374901587413776.
Full text靜宜大學
國際企業學系研究所
98
Taiwan has encountered party alternations in power since year 2000, therefore resulting changes in economic strategy. However, enterprises haven’t changed their goals towards internationalization. Many of the past studies researched how performance of firms affected their international entry mode or measurement of performance. These studies were conducted to help enterprises having better strategies and development. This study was conducted for the enterprises performance in Taiwan as a reference. The research purpose of current study is to examine whether firm size, business group, and firm innovation can increase firms’ performance as independent variables. Return on Assets (ROA) was applied as performance data reference values in the study. The data of enterprises in iron industry, automotive, electronics, cement industry, and foodstuffs industry from 2001 to 2008 was used as the research samples. The enterprises were analyzed by the three independent variables to examine whether these has positive impacts on return on assets. Firm size was measured by total assets and net operation income, setting business group as virtual variable, R&D expenditures as innovation to analyze. This study is useful for enterprises in Taiwan. For enterprises, by the scale of the company, business group or not and innovation, we can know that if the results could be promoted or not. And we can tell if it’s good or bad for the company by the trading strategy and the condition of team up with other company, and also to decrease the crisis of deficit to the enterprise.
Chung, Chieh-Wei, and 鍾介瑋. "Bank-Firm Relationship and Firm Performance in Taiwan." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31259490965984706025.
Full text長庚大學
企業管理研究所
90
This paper examines how bank-firm relationships affect the firm performance in Taiwan. Typically, close bank-firm relationship is often credited for many positive effects. Those positive effects include availability of capital, to make use of funds flexibly, and higher line of credit et al. It will affect the firm performance. However, would those positive effects affect the firm performance and the influential condition becomes the main research subject of this thesis. This study collects the data on 249 publicly securities Taiwan firms for the period 1991-2000, and gets empirical results as follows. 1.The firm performance is negatively related to the firm’s number of banks, Long-term load and secured loan. We find that the firms have more the number of banks; the amount of long-term loan and secured loan, the firm performance is low. About the firm’s number of banks, due to more the firm’s number of banks, the firm performance is low. By the means, the data set show Taiwan publicly firms maintain more bank-firm relationships for loan. This condition represents the firm performance of the Taiwan publicly firm. 2.The firm performance is positively related to the bank loads of the variation interest rate. When firms have closed bank-firm relationships, the interest rate isn’t fixed during the period of the bank loan existing. Then the content of the bank loans contract will higher flexibility and increase the possibility of the negotiations terms. 3.“The focus of the firm-bank relationships” means firm acquire the bank loan from someone bank which one of the all banks in Taiwan. It can be a criterion of the measure whether the bank-firm relationship is closed or not. The empirical indicated the firm performance is negatively related to the focus of the firm-bank relationships. It implicates Taiwan publicly firms that have focus on several bank to obtain bank loans, then the firm performance is low at the same time。
邱歆瑀. "Firm internationalization, earnings management and firm life cycle." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75r6yk.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
財務金融技術學系
106
This study focused on how firm internationalization influences earnings management and analyzes the effect of firm life cycle. We selected sample of 11654 Taiwanese listed companies ranging from 2006 to 2015. This paper uses regression models to test the hypotheses. Discretionary accruals as a dependent variable, the number of foreign countries and the number of foreign subsidiaries as an international enterprise variables. Both measures variables, internationalization is negatively associated with earnings management. This study further explores the impact of international business and earnings management on the different life cycle of enterprises. It is found that the international enterprises will not be involved in earnings management during the period of growth and maturity compared with the decline period.
Hung, Pei-Ling, and 洪佩伶. "Inter-Firm and Intra-Firm Collaboration Network: the Effects of Network Structure on Firm Innovation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50881216293665443121.
Full text國立臺灣大學
資訊管理學研究所
101
This study constructs inter-firm collaboration network by strategic alliances and intra-firm collaboration network by patent co-invention simultaneously and investigates the impact of network size and network efficiency in these two networks on firm innovation. And we also examine how intra-firm network size and technological diversity influence the relationship between inter-firm network structure and innovation to explain the role of these variables on firm innovation. The study employs the secondary data analysis and social network analysis in information and communication technology and pharmaceutical industry, and the negative binomial regression is used to testing our hypotheses. The results indicate that both network size and network efficiency in inter-firm network and intra-firm network contribute to firm innovation. And the effects of inter-firm network structure on innovation are moderated by intra-firm network size and technological diversity.
Chen, Bo-Rong, and 陳柏融. "Firm Characteristics, Firm Performance and Risk Management Segment Formation." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v7ar2r.
Full text國立東華大學
會計與財務碩士學位學程
100
Manifold of risks faced by enterprises. The intricacies of risk factors and changing market environment increase the difficulty of the enterprise control risk, the need to invest more resources and manpower to integrate risk. The existence of the risk management segment not only to make risk management more efficient but also to make the risk control more specialized. In this study, we research the influence of risk management segment and functions. Research purposes is divided into two, first to explore the correlation between firm characteristics and the risk management segment setting, an additional impact on firm performance for the segment setting. The company in 2009, the firm characteristics into the board of directors characteristics, board size, proportion of outside directors and directors of professional backgrounds, other characteristics of the complexity and financial reporting risks, and explore its corporate risk management set the degree of influence. In addition, further more analysis of set a specialized risk management segment, whether it can make to significantly improve firm performance. The findings of this study were summarized as follows: 1. Firm characteristics are indeed important factors affect the company set up specialized risk management department (or risk management committee), other firm characteristics, such as the company's complexity, financial reporting, the influence of risk is greater than the board of directors characteristics. When companies face more risk, complex, companies are more willing to set up a specialized risk management segment (or risk management committee), and the impact of board characteristics on enterprise risk management is less obvious. 2. the set of risk management segment or risk management committee, make the company's risk management system is more robust, although the segment and personnel training is required to put the high cost, in the short term would undermine the profitability of their company, so that each shares surplus significantly reduced, but on the other hand, other performance such as the performance of the financial slack, earnings volatility significantly changed, and also shows that the risk management segment (or risk management committee) settings can effectively enhance the company's performance.
Hsieh, Hsiao-Tien, and 謝孝典. "Bank-firm Relationship before the Firm Becomes Financially Distressed." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42489395423733995549.
Full text元智大學
財務金融學系
97
This study analyzes changes of bank loans to financially distressed firms up to five years prior to the distress. Using data of 234 financially distressed firms in Taiwan from 1992 to 2007, we examine the changing amount of bank loans before the financial distress news declared to the public. The results indicate that firms with more banking relationships are more likely to receive additional funds from its lending banks. Furthermore, banks that have larger amount of existing loans to the problem firms are more likely to provide additional funds.
Nagaraj, Sugarla Edwin, and 詩格拉. "Waste disposal models for manufacturing firm and disposal firm." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55957165234904878149.
Full text元智大學
工業工程與管理學系
97
This research identifies analyze and propose solutions for waste-related problems in industries. In this research an inventory control of the waste products that are generated during the manufacturing process is concerned. Two types of waste accumulation rates are discussed. One is the constant waste accumulation rate and the other is the linearly increasing waste accumulation rate. Also, waste disposal is examined from two different perspectives, from the point of view of the waste ‘producing’ company on the one hand, and from the point of view of the waste disposing company on the other hand. The idea of the basic model lies in the ‘turning upside down’ of the lot-sizing approach to inventory control theory. A corresponding formula for disposal is derived to calculate the optimal number of pick-ups and the amount of waste to be disposed at certain period of time. This shows that the results for these two different types of waste accumulation differ in a wide range because of the difference in the waste accumulated way which disturbs the storage cost. Finally, both the models are verified by a numerical example and both the results are compared. An integrated model is developed and discussed in which both the manufacturing firm and the disposal firm are benefited by the integrated model. This research also explains the necessity of integration between the manufacturing and the disposal firm for effective implementation of the integrated model. An integrated lot-splitting model of facilitating multiple shipments in small lots is developed and compared with the existing approach in a simple waste disposal model, under deterministic conditions for waste products. It is shown that the optimal policy adopted by the integrated approach can provide a strong and consistent cost-minimizing effect for both the manufacturing firm and the disposal firm over the existing approach.
Leu, Jyh-Horng, and 呂志宏. "Competition and Coordination between Upstream Firm and Downstream Firm." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43599936376705504493.
Full textHo, Nien-Ting, and 何念庭. "Association between Family Firm''s CEO and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99629002009652579445.
Full text國立高雄第一科技大學
財務管理研究所
101
This paper investigates the relationships between family firm’s CEO and firm performance in Taiwan stock-listed firms during 2008-2011. We further investigate the impact of family CEO and nonfamily CEOs characteristics on firm performance. Other findings include the following: (1) Family CEO in family firms are significantly negatively related to firm performance. (2) Whether for family members as CEO, the younger and higher education level is significantly positively related to firm performance. (3) Family CEO with international experience can help improve firm performance. (4) Nonfamily CEO has top manager experience significantly impact on firm performance. One important management implications of this paper is: If family firm still prefers to hire family members as CEO, should select with the younger, higher education level and have international experience family members, and then will be better for firm performance.
Min, Gan Shih, and 甘世旻. "Bank-firm Relationships, Financial Supply Chain and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49949149803846723273.
Full text長庚大學
企業管理研究所
95
This paper proposes to investigate the bank-firm relationships and financial supply chain in Taiwan. We examine empirically the impact of banking relationships and financial supply chain on firm performance. Using a panel data set of 247 TSE listed firms in Taiwan from 1996 to 2005. The paper shows that firms with higher loan interest rate have higher performances but the number of related banks does not have any evidence of firm performance. On the other hand, firms with higher leverage and bank debt ratio may perform worse. The result indicates that concentrated banking relationships may not bring better loan conditions which won’t benefit firm performance. However, large amount of debt may deteriorate firm reputation, which damage to firm performance. We think that firms may be charged higher interest rate to actively maintain close relationship with related banks. Furthermore, we conduct the study to investigate the bank-firm relationships, financial supply chain and firm performance for three industries, textile, iron and steel, and electronics. We uncover that firms with better financial supply chain have higher performance. Generally, this study indicates that the financial supply chain could improve the firm performance but do not have any evidence that firms maintain long-term or close relationship with banks have better performance.
Greene, Daniel. "Firm Value and Financial Constraints: Evidence from private firm sellouts and reverse mergers." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/finance_diss/24.
Full textDuranPena, Ricardo, and 李派然. "Firm Risk-taking, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance: Moderating Roles of Firm Slack and Learning Orientation." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47419598018100847936.
Full text國立成功大學
國際經營管理研究所碩士班
100
Entrepreneurship nowadays is a very relevant factor for the economic growth. Therefore, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has become a fundamental factor within strategic management over the last years. Entrepreneurial Orientation is usually relation with growth, competitive advantage and greater performance. This study aimed to analyze the relation between Firm Slack-Entrepreneurial Orientation-Firm Performance; as well, it aimed to analyze the moderating roles of Learning Orientation and Firm Slack in the Firm Slack-Entrepreneurial Orientation-Firm Performance relation. In this research a conceptual model is developed and a series of hypotheses are besought that explain the interaction between constructs. This research uses a hierarchical regression analysis in order to analyze the survey data from 101 CEO from Taiwan and Mexico. According to the findings of this research, there is a significant positive relationship between Firm Risk-taking and EO, also this research shows that Firm Slack has a positive moderating role in Firm Risk-taking-EO relationship, however, this study was unable to provide any evidence of a positive relationship between EO and Firm Performance, this research also was unable to provide any evidence of a positive moderating role of Learning Orientation. The principal limitation of this study is that offers a small sample size data collection. However, this research proposes a starting point for future researches in Entrepreneurship field and the factors that influence Firm Performance.
Kuo, Nai-Hsin, and 郭乃勳. "Market Structure, Firm Conduct and Performance Of Venture Capital Firms." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r9fhes.
Full text銘傳大學
財務金融學系碩士在職專班
93
The venture capital firm has brought in Taiwan since 1984. It has developed for 20 years. As time goes by , the investment business comes to mature period from introduction period. More and more venture capital firms have been created during this period. It has 241 firms until now. The vigorous development of investment business that has great contribution for Taiwan’s economical success in the past time. Studying the papers of the Venture Capital from foreign to domain countries, all we got are these that they analyzed the organizational structure from peer to peer and more fragmentary. From these, we can’t catch the overview for the operation of Venture Capital Company. And we also can’t understand how they worked and the possible reaction paths of cause and effect. Therefore, this study was base on 「structure-Conduct-Performance」of industrial economy theory. And picked 35 local Venture Capital firms totally as empirical sample, and the sampling period is from 1996 to 2001, ,place order the municipal to share the three variableses such as market concentration rate、market share ratio and IPO ratio etc. to represent the structure factor;place order the municipal to share the five variableses such as Venture Capital fund management style、age、 diversification degree、long term investment / asset ratio and directors hold rates etc. to represent the conduct factor;place order the municipal to share the two variableses such as ROA、ROE ect, to represent the performance factor, with the least square method of three stages( Three Stage Least Square),to find out each variable to affect the relation mutually. Overall, the results of this study support the idea that there are significant effects on the structure-conduct-performance of venture capital firms.
YU, PEI-JUNG, and 余佩蓉. "Corporate Governance and Firm Performance:Evidence from the Listed Construction Firms." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7pw47g.
Full text東海大學
財務金融學系碩士在職專班
105
This study aims to investigate the relation between corporate governance and firm performance with 26 listed construction in Taiwan during the period from 2010 to 2015. My empirical findings mainly based on ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions reveal that both ownership structure and specific financial rations are significantly related to firm performance. In particular, there is a negative linkage between board (institutional) ownership and firm performance. On one hand, it implies that board members appear not to act effectively to enhance board monitoring and advising, and consequently hurt firm performance. On the other hand, the argument that institutional holding or institutions’ propensity to acquire stocks could be sensitive to corresponding firm performance is well supported in my thesis. At the end, my regression results also indicate a significant relation between certain financial ratios, such as financial leverage, current ration and ea- rnings per share, and firm performance proxied by return on assets indirectly providing evidence for firms in construction industry in Taiwan during recent years.