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Halvarsson, 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.
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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.
Yang, Jingwen. "Earnings management in European private firms versus public firms." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/earnings-management-in-european-private-firms-versus-public-firms(d6ea5125-6e4d-48c6-a806-f0baf7777a7e).html.
Full textTrifunovski, Alexandar, and Max Steén. "Micro-firms and the auditor : a study of the individual-firm commitment between auditors and exempted firms in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9585.
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.
Vatan, Antoine. "Interactions of firms in international trade models." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010069.
Full textFirms were introduced into trade theory in the early 1980s. After traditional trade theory failed to explain the importance of intra-industry trade, monopolistic competition (Krugman, 1979, 1980) and oligopolistic competition(Brander,1981)models were developed. These two approaches are in fact grouped under the label "new trade theory". As will be explained further, oligopolistic competition was quite neglected in the last thirty years, while monopolistic competition became the standard framework in the trade literature. These two frame works share a common feature which represents a major change compared to previous perfect competition models: the presence of firms. Nevertheless, a notable difference between the two is that firms are representative in the monopolistic competition framework, while they are able to act strategically in an oligopolistic setting. This partly explains why the former has been the most used. While the first motivation of new trade theory was to provide a rationale for trade patterns, the intuition that firms had to be taken into account was supported by a broad strand of empirical literature in the 1990s-2000s. Thanks to the emergence of firm-level data, trade economists discovered that only a handful of firms are responsible for the bulk of international trade. The most important feature, and probably the best known and most discussed by trade economists, is that firms’ participation in trade is far from random. Only the most productive ones export. Beyond this comparison between exporters and non-exporters, there is also much heterogeneity among exporters themselves. This fact found a rationale thanks to Melitz (2003) who introduced heterogeneous firms into a monopolistic competition model à la Krugman. This model became the most used in trade and is the cornerstone of "new new trade theory". The present Ph.D. dissertation first tries to take part in the debate about the relevance of monopolistic competition models in new new trade theory with respect to exporting firms’ strategies. Second, this dissertation tries to contribute to showing the need to put strategic interactions back into trade models in order to enhance our understanding of exporting and multinational firms. [...]
Smagghue, Gabriel. "Essays on the impact of international trade and labor regulation on firms." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014IEPP0022/document.
Full textRecent literature in international economics and macroeconomics has pointed to the major role played by large firms in shaping aggregate economic outcomes. Large firms influence, inter alia, economic fluctuations, performance on export markets and inequalities between workers and between consumers. It is therefore crucial to understand how large firms emerge and behave. In the present thesis, I look at three independent aspects of this question. First, I study how exporting firms adjust the quality of the products they export in response to an intensification of "low-cost" competition in foreign markets. To this end, I develop a new method to estimate the quality of products at the firm-level and I find evidence that firms upgrade quality in response to "low-cost" competition. Second, I investigate the way exporting firms adjust their sales when a demand shock (e.g. an economic recession, a war) occurs in one of their destinations. In the context of the Champagne wine industry during the 2000-2001 economic recession, I show that firms reallocate their sales toward markets where demand conditions are relatively more favorable. Lastly, I look at the way firms adjust their size and their mix of capital and labor in response to labor regulations which are more binding to large firms. I find that firms shrink and substitute capital for labor to mitigate the labor cost of the regulation. At the aggregate level, preliminary results suggests that workers gain from the regulation while capital owners lose
Zheng, Jingchen. "How do family firms cope with economic crisis? : Case studies about Chinese family firms." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13480.
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 textPierk, Jochen. "Are Private Firms Really More Tax Aggressive Than Public Firms ?" WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Universität Wien, 2016. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5053/1/SSRN%2Did2758756.pdf.
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Oyinlola, B. (Blessing). "Board composition and firms’ performance:empirical evidence from Nordic listed firms." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201804041426.
Full textIntakhantee, Naunghathai. "The role of a firm's political connections in foreign direct investments and firm performance : evidence from listed Thai firms." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19271/.
Full textBjuggren, Carl Magnus. "Family Matters : Essays on Family Firms and Employment Protection." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-100156.
Full textDenna avhandling behandlar företagsdynamik, familjeägande och anställningsskydd. I avhandlingen analyseras anställningsskyddet och hur det påverkar företagens produktivitet, samt hur familjeägda företag reagerar på chocker inom industrin. I avhandlingen analyseras också hur familjeägande påverkar sannolikheten för ett företag att uppnå en hög tillväxttakt. Genom att kombinera olika statistikkällor kan samtliga familjeföretag i den den svenska företagspopulationen identifieras. Avhandlingen belyser också några av de problem som finns i den officiella statistiken över egenföretagare.
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.
Choi, Hye Lin. "Essays in Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestically-Owned Firms." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396886658.
Full textShi, Wei. "HR practices and challenges in Chinese firms : comparison with Western firms." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46238/1/Wei_Shi_Thesis.pdf.
Full textElert, 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 textAfolayan, Oluwaseun Babatope. "The Growth of Small Firms: An Alternative Look Through The Lens of Effectuation." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31178.
Full textAlzoubi, Abdallah, and Yasir Alazawi. "Capital budgeting techniques and firms´ performance. Case study: Jordanian listed services firms." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-35656.
Full textCapital investment decision is one of the most important decisions, because it is thought to be affecting the short and long run situations of firms, and according to theory, it is thought to be affecting shareholders’ wealth. The researchers have recognized the two previously mentioned phases and conducted this study.
This study aims at identifying the extent to which capital budgeting techniques and its related practices are used by Jordanian listed services firms, and identifying reasonable justifications behind that pattern of this use. The study also aims at identifying if there is any relationship between firms’ performance and the degree of capital budgeting sophistication.
The researchers planned the study by formulating 3 research questions; these are, what are the capital budgeting techniques and their related practices that used by Jordanian listed services firms? Why Jordanian listed services firms use some capital budgeting techniques rather than others? What is the effect of the technique used on the firm’s performance?
To answer these questions, the researcher developed a questionnaire and addressed it to the capital budgeting decision makers of Jordanian listed services firms. The sample of the study is the whole population; 63 Jordanian listed services firms. The researchers received back 38 usable replies after which they started their statistical analysis to reach at findings about their first two questions. As to the third question, the researchers used a multiple regression model that explains performance by the degree of sophistication and size of the firm. The researchers run the analysis for the multiple regression model on 30 firms, the firms that have their financial statements available at JSC.
The results showed that PBP is the most used technique by the Jordanian listed services firms, followed by NPV, PI, ARR, and IRR. The results showed that the practices related to capital budgeting techniques; cost of capital estimation methods, risk analysis techniques, and cash flow forecasting techniques, are not widely used by the Jordanian listed services firms because of the domination of subjective judgment.
When started their study, the researchers expected that the selection of the capital budgeting techniques is explained by demographical characteristics, type of capital investment decision, and\ or the perception of the respondents to the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. The results showed that academic qualification has a positive effect on the use of DCF techniques, while the type of capital investment decision has no effect on the capital budgeting techniques selection. Based on the respondents’ perception to the advantages and disadvantages of each technique, the advantages of PBP and NPV explain their high use, and the disadvantages of IRR explain its low use. Finally, the results of the multiple regression analysis indicate that there is no relationship between the degree of capital budgeting sophistication and the performance of the firms.
Strecker, 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 textBrenner, Steffen. "Differentiated customers and firms." Doctoral thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=964624028.
Full textHansen, Thorsten. "Firms in Integrating Europe." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-111503.
Full textAinley-Walker, Mike. "Dividend behaviour of firms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358412.
Full textArmstrong, Mark. "Pricing in multiproduct firms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3af11153-479b-48b6-a8ea-3aa2318effb6.
Full textNatale, Piergiovanna. "Markets, contracts and firms." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238794.
Full textLin, Ya-Wan, and 林雅婉. "Director Compensation, Board Structure and Firm Performance :Comparing Family Firms and Non-family Firms." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m675qe.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
財務金融技術學系
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In Taiwan, director compensation has been disclosure respectively since 2004. Based on data of listed companies on Taiwan Stock Exchange(TWSE) during 2005~2013, using multiple regression to examine the effect of director compensation and board structure on firm performance. We divided the director compensation from its structure into non-incentive compensation and incentive compensation. Furthermore, we take the factors of family and corporate governance into consideration. The results show that firm performance is influenced positively by incentive compensation, not by non-incentive compensation. We also find that the board of directors can function effectively if members of the board should not be excessive and the proportion of independent directors should be greater. But firm performance is not influenced significantly by CEO duality. Compared to non-family firms, the amount of the members in the board has a negative impact on the firm performance and board independence has monitoring effect obviously in family firms.
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.
Hsieh, Yung-Yi, and 謝咏邑. "The Relationship between Brand Value and Firm Performance-Comparison between Family Firms and Non-Family Firms." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s5t8ux.
Full text東海大學
會計學系
101
In the past, cost control as competitive advantage of IT industry of Taiwan. But in recent years, face of China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging countries and Southeast Asian countries, the rise of price competition, making Taiwaness IT industry profits greatly reduced, if companies want to survive in the challenges of globalization, they would need to get into high value-added brands to develop. But the brand is not a short-term investment, it is essential to invest a lot of money and time to operating. We want to know what the deferent between Family firms operating and Non-Family firms operating? In this study, we use Least squares(OLS) explore years of the 2007-2011 Taiwan's electronics industry to research the relation of brand and firm performance in Taiwan's family firms and non-family firms. The empirical show that brand value on firm performance has a significant positive effect, which means that if the company efforts to brand management, then the firm performance will be better. In the family firm's and non-family firm's company brand value and performance moderate the effect of non-family firm's brand value on firm performance has a significant positive effect, while the family firm's brand value on firm performance has a positive incremental effect. In addition to further using wald test to compare family firm's and non-family firm's brand value and firm performance, which shows the non-family firm's brand value influence firm performance higher than family firms.
Kuo, Yuhan, and 郭語涵. "The Relation of comparison Intellectual Capital Disclosure betweenFamily Firms and Non-Family Firms on Firm Value." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95123778203220082800.
Full text東海大學
會計學系
100
Intellectual capital disclosure is voluntary disclosure. Intellectual capital disclosure is important to enterprises according to the interview of Goran Ross, the professor of ICS in England, held in Taiwan in 2006(Wu,2006). Also, Goran mentioned that intellectual capital disclosure is the root of firm value and a challenge that people have to face in the future because the global capital market is affected by environment. However, Yeh, Su, Ke, and Lee mentioned that over half of enterprises in Taiwan are family firm (2003). This study discusses that, among listed companies and over the counter companies in electronic information industries, whether there is a difference of intellectual capital disclosure exists on family firms and non-family firms in Taiwan. Furthermore, the study also researches that how the intellectual capital disclosure with high quality the influences on firm value. The subjects are listed companies and over the counter companies in electronic information industries from 2005 to 2009. The study also analyzes the present situation of intellectual capital disclosure by using the financial reports of family firms and non-family firms. The measurement of information transparency is adopted content analysis. The study made 40 indexes, obtained by referring related researches of intellectual capital disclosure, present the difference of intellectual capital disclosure between family firms and non-family firms on firm value. The result of the experiment appears that it is a positive relationship between intellectual capital disclosure and firm value. It means that higher intellectual capital disclosure quality, less the uncertainty of enterprise and the information asymmetry, resulting in higher firm value. Furthermore, the study discovers that non-family firms prefer to disclose much intellectual capital information than family firms. Hence, the firm value of non-family firms is higher.
Chen, Siang Ling, and 陳湘菱. "Production Efficiency for Local Firms, Taiwanese Firms and Foreign Firms in China." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11784622451219590322.
Full textLiao, Pei-Chieh, and 廖沛婕. "The Default Risk between Family Firms and Nonfamily Firms - Listed Firms in China." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4785ay.
Full text中原大學
會計研究所
103
This paper investigates whether the difference of default risk between family firms and nonfamily firms, and furthermore whether the difference of the family firms is subdivided into Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan family firms, domestic family firms, and foreign investment family and non-family firms. In addition to using market model KMV to assess default risk, additional analysis is used in basic accounting model Z-score. We use assessment models above to detect the risk of default of the research questions. The sample about publicly traded company in Chinese on this paper is collected from the TEJ. The research period is from 2004 to 2013. Our results show that family firms have higher risk of default than nonfamily firms, and when family firms is divided into Domestic family firms compared with nonfamily firms, the domestic firms risk of default is higher, too. However, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan family firms, foreign family firms of risk of default compared with nonfamily firms do not significant differences. We Surmised that the period of implementation of reform and open policy is not very long , so there have something difference between family firm's business culture, corporate governance in Hong Kong , Macao , Taiwan and traditional family firms. Because of this results, our expectations are diverse Therefore, the Chinese family firms to achieve sustainable development of the business, they must learn from other countries enterprises, corporate governance, and adjustment factors contributing to the risk of default, can help the sustainable development of enterprises.
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.
Chen, Yu-Yen, and 陳玉晏. "The Impact of Managerial Ownership on Firm Performance and the Differences between Group Firms and Non-group Firms." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27985798648006263295.
Full text淡江大學
產業經濟學系
90
This paper provides empirical evidence about the impacts of the two types of managerial ownership in Taiwan on firm performance and the differences between group affiliates and unaffiliated firms. We constitute a balanced panel containing information about 229 firms listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1994 for the 6-year period 1995-2000. The purpose of this study is to investigate the substitutability of the two types of managerial ownership in Taiwan and the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance and the differences between group firms and non-group firms.The empirical results show that there exist substitutability between shareholdings of individual and institutional managers and the substitutability in group and non-group firms is quite different. The substitution of institutional ownership for individual ownership in group firms is more substantial than in non-group firms. Institutional ownership creates a mechanism for group members to tie together, and hence should be more important and less substitutable in group affiliates. However, for group affiliates, because institutional ownership may cause some problems to reduce firm performance, the substitution of individual ownership for institutional ownership is more substantial than that of institutional for individual ownership. Besides, pyramids and cross-holdings are commonly used mechanisms within business groups for families to concentrate control. Both individual and institutional managerial ownership have more significant impacts on performance in unaffiliated firms because the transparency problem and reciprocal ownership caused by pyramids and cross-ownership in business groups make the performance of member firms less sensitive to the changes of managerial ownership. Our empirical results also suggest that the institutional managerial ownership in Taiwan has a negative impact on performance and conform to entrenchment hypothesis. To unaffiliated firms, institutional managers are representatives arranged by institutions, they do not really hold shareholding of the firm and they may tend to consume excess perquisites and engage in opportunistic behavior at shareholders’ expenses. For group firms, institutional managers may usually be family members, when there are interests conflicts between their families and corporations, they may consider their family interests fist and cause damage to minority shareholders. Finally, the individual managerial ownership in Taiwan does enhance firm performance. Individual ownership in Taiwan listed companies serve as a credible guarantee of bearing the cost of not maximizing the value of shares and conform to convergence -of-interest-hypothesis.
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.
Chen, Wen-Yen, and 陳文彥. "Analyses of Information Asymmetry:Focused Firms versus Diversified Firms." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35875346278091677626.
Full text國立中央大學
財務金融研究所
96
This study contains 777 firms who announce earnings warnings, and analyzes information asymmetry problem among firms with different corporate structures by examining market response to earnings warning, investment opportunities and operating performance. The results indicate firms with higher level of focus will have more severe information asymmetry problem. Market will response to firms’ earnings warnings in the (-1, 2) event window. Significant positive CAR surrounds positive warnings, and significant negative reaction surrounds negative warnings. We find market will react more drastically to earnings warning announced by focused firms no matter the warning is positive or negative, and this phenomenon can be due to higher information asymmetry for focused firms. Severity of information asymmetry will also have significant impact on firms’ investment opportunities and operating performance. As shown in this study, diversified firms will gain better investment opportunities and better operating performance after earnings warnings. Based on previous literatures, the improvement of investment opportunities and operating performance may come from the lower information asymmetry, so we infer the focused firms will still have more severe information asymmetry problem after earnings warning. Overall, empirical results in this study suggest that focused firms suffer more information asymmetry problem than diversified firms before and after earnings warning.
Hsu, Ya-Huai, and 徐雅慧. "The relationship among firm characteristics, financing behavior and firm's performance-An empirical study of Taiwan Listed Firms." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94010142026528706553.
Full text中原大學
企業管理研究所
93
According to statistical information of indirect and direct financing, indirect financing has decreased from 1,094.8 billion in 1994 to 548.9 billion NT dollars in 2004 and direct financing has been increasing from 904.5 billion to 965.6 billion NT dollars. It has showed that more and more Taiwanese firms preferred to choose direct finance to collect funds. Moreover, Taiwan listed firms have issued bonds from 9.32 billion in 1994 to 155.7 billion NT dollars in 2004 and have issued Season Equity Offerings from 1994 to 2004 from 1,917.9 to 2,760.8 billion NT dollars from public investors. These statistic numbers have showed that most firms can’t grow up without the fund from outside of the firms; therefore, managers often have to do financing decision. After issuing bonds for several years, some firms incurred the financial crisis when they are not able to payoff the principal and interest. Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to explore whether any difference exist between firm’s short-term performance and long-term performance when firms have issued bonds, convertible bonds and Season Equity Offering. The result of this thesis has showed that bonds have led to negative abnormal returns, however convertible bonds and Season Equity Offerings have generated positive abnormal return. As of firms’ long-term performance, the bigger firms have higher probability to issue bonds, the more bonds issued and the firms with higher growth opportunity will size are, the more convertible bonds and Season Equity Offering issued.
Yuan, Kuo-chieh, and 袁國傑. "The Impact of Private Placement on Firm Performance and Abnormal Return- Family-controlled Firms and Non-family-controlled Firms." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82091656939319400860.
Full text國立成功大學
會計學系碩博士班
97
This study uses the sample of listed and over-the-counter firms choosing private placements and public offerings during 2005 to 2007 investigating follows. First, this study uses logistic regression model to examine how family-controlled firms and non-family-controlled firms choose between public offerings and private placements. Second, this study uses t-test to examine whether the choice of private placements and public offerings affects operating performance and abnormal returns under family-controlled firms? Third, this study uses OLS regression model to examine whether the types of private placement investors and purposes affect operating performance? Lastly, what the difference is between family-controlled firms and non-family-controlled firms under the different types of private placement investors and purposes. As to the types of private placement investors, this study follows Barclay, Holderness, and Sheehan (2007) to classify private placement investors into three types including active investors, insider investors and passive investors. The purposes can be classified into strategic alliances, improving the financial structure, and others. The evidence shows that non-family-controlled firms prefer choosing private placements, while family-controlled firms prefer choosing public offerings. Besides, the abnormal returns and returns on assets(ROA) is better when family-controlled firms choose private placements as compared to public offerings. Regarding the impacts of the three types of private placement investors, their impacts on ROA are differerent. Firms have better performance after private placements when the private placement investors are active investors and insider investors; however, firms do not have better performance after private placements when the private placement investors are passive investors. When the purpose is improving the financial structure, ROA is better after private placements. Lastly, the impacts of private placement investors on performance are weaker for family-controlled firms as compared to non-family-controlled firms. However, when the purpose is the same, there is no difference on performance between family-controlled firms and non-family-controlled firms.
Ravikumar, P. "Effects Of Firm Size And Trading Mechanisms On Liquidity : An Empirical Analysis." Thesis, 1999. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/1952.
Full textRavikumar, P. "Effects Of Firm Size And Trading Mechanisms On Liquidity : An Empirical Analysis." Thesis, 1999. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/1952.
Full textKung, Ming-Hung, and 龔洺弘. "Tax Agressiveness Between Family Firms and Non-Family Firms." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d92s6v.
Full textMachado, Luís Pedro Manso. "Exporter Firms Behaviour, Evidence from Portuguese Firms using Microdata." Master's thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/113556.
Full textChen, Yi-Wen, and 陳怡雯. "Earnings Management between Family Firms and Non-Family Firms." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e8cb3m.
Full text國立臺北科技大學
經營管理系碩士班
105
In the past few years, according to statistics, numerous family firms in Taiwan increases year by year. It indicates that this kind of type of corporate is common in Taiwan. In the past, many scholars did the research on family firms, many studies pointed out that the relationship of family firms and earnings management are significant. In contrast, there are barely literatures which point out that the relationship between family firms and earnings management is insignificant. Therefore, market keeps conservative on the financial information family firms released. In 2013, Taiwan listed companies adopted International Financial Reporting Standards by the International Accounting Standards Board formally. In the past, there has been little discussions on the changes in earnings management of family firms in Taiwan after International Financial Reporting Standards. This study uses the listed companies in Taiwan for sample as the research object. And the research method uses the discretionary accruals as the measure of earnings management, and then the multiple regression analysis to explore the differences in earnings management between family firms and non-family firms. Also, we are going to compare the level of the effect after family firms and non-family firms adopting International Financial Reporting Standards. After analyzing, the degree of earnings management of family firms are close to the non-family firms, furthermore, non-family firms manipulate earnings management more easily than family firms. Also, International Financial Reporting Standards is having effects on listed company in Taiwan, and is more effective on non-family firms. Therefore, we suggest that the company could reference the information of family firms and create more chances to cooperate with each other and provide the opened market for investors to recognize family firms.
Machado, Luís Pedro Manso. "Exporter Firms Behaviour, Evidence from Portuguese Firms using Microdata." Dissertação, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/113556.
Full textKuo, 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.