Journal of Academy of Business and Economics articles from March 2008

Journal of Academy of Business and Economics archives from March 2008

Effects of ownership type and socio-cultural context on leadership in the banking sector: an international study.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between the company's ownership and the leadership style of bank managers in a transition country. Based on leadership theory and our analysis of the specificity of the banking sector in...

Why do private equity funds-of-funds grow?
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Private equity funds-of-funds ate investment vehicles that combine investor commitments for allocation to a portfolio of private equity funds. Over the last fifteen years, there has been an explosion in the private equity...

Employee benefits and work conditions by demographic categories.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Respondents strongly embrace the Equal Employment Opportunity Law, family-oriented benefits, and protection of workers during economic downturns and mergers. They feel compensation should be based on performance, fair and...

Tax liability of a U.S. multinational corporation operating a foreign business entity.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This paper investigates the tax consequences of a foreign branch versus a foreign subsidiary corporation. In the case of a foreign branch, the foreign government imposes income tax on the pre-tax income and branch profit tax on...

Goal orientation as a predictor of cognitive engagement, performance, and satisfaction.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This study examines the influence of a goal orientation model comprised of four factors on cognitive engagement, academic performance, and satisfaction. 657 participants completed an online survey assessing their personality,...

Asymmetric volatility, risk and filtered historical simulation.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Asymmetric volatility in equity markets increases risk. To illustrate this point and to demonstrate a semiparametric approach to risk measurement, we bootstrap from the residuals of symmetric and asymmetric volatility models...

Profitibility and royalty rates across industries: some preliminary evidence.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Is the licensing market efficient such that royalty rates reflect the costs and profitability across industries ? This paper tries to answer the question through exploring the relationship between royalty rates and profitability....

International competitiveness of a footwear industry cluster in Franca: Brazil.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article investigates internal aspects that affect the exportation of footwear, by discussing the results of an exploratory research conducted in 2004 with exporters of a Brazilian footwear cluster. The main results show that...

The impact of the structure of shareholding on the restructuring operations taking place in Romania.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Each economic entity conducts its business in a certain environment. This can be either a stable environment meaning either that changes ate rare of have little impact of that they can be easily predicted of it can be a changing,...

The optimum financial management for colleges based on the tuition.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The private higher educational institutes receive insufficient allocated funds leading to deteriorating educational quality at present in Taiwan. A sudden increase of the number of universities leads to the problem of 'University...

How much confidence can we have in confidence intervals?
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT One of the standard techniques of teaching hypothesis testing is to outline how an appropriate test statistic should be selected and to compare its calculated value, based on the available sample data, with a critical value that...

Organizational citizenship competency development during college promotes technical competence for corporate experience.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article identifies the benefits of teaching Organizational citizenship behaviors during college as a means to increase the technical expertise and professionalism of students as new employees in organizations. Expanding the...

A risk-based mathematical methodology for project plan assessement and selection.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The present paper introduces a technique to identify the project plan efficient frontier for assessing the alternative project plans and selecting the best plan. The efficient frontier includes two criteria: the project cost and...

Efficient optimization framework and algorithms for shop-floor scheduling.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Scheduling problems have received ample attention in every context of manufacturing, mainly because of the optimization solutions they yield. Firms often face bottle-necks due to limited capacities and time caps of deliverables....

Layoffs, equity-based compensation, and CEO ownership.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT We investigate the relation between CEO equity compensation and layoffs. In particular, we measure the extent of CEO stock selling in the year of the layoffs. We find that CEOs who layoff workers engage in little or no selling of...

A validation of a collective human capital strength measurement.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Human capital (HC) has become one of the most researched topics in the knowledge economy. Yeh (2006) in a review on the concept of human capital revealed several problems in the research of human capital at organizational level To...

International equity parity with exchange risk.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The standard uncovered interest rate parity condition relates the expected change in the exchange rate to deterministic interest rates on fixed income instruments. In this paper we examine a similar parity condition for equity...

Changing dimensions and growth of knowledge based economy in India.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Knowledge management is a new emerging discipline with its inter-disciplinary approach in today's business world. It has now become a mainstream priority for any business organization. It has become the driving force for social...

Dividend yield and interest rate risk of bank stocks.
March 1, 2008... ABSTRACT We investigate the conjecture that bank stocks with high dividend yield tend to be more sensitive to changes in interest rate. Our findings provide weak evidence in favor of this conjecture. We also find that the extra-market...