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National Culture, Corporate Governance and Corruption: A Cross-country Analysis
(Article)Drawing on institutional theory, we examine the impact of corporate governance (CG) on corruption. The interaction effects of national culture and CG on corruption are also examined. By employing a dataset of 149 countries, ... -
Neither principles nor rules: Making corporate governance work in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Article)Corporate governance is often split between rulebased and principle-based approaches to regulation in different institutional contexts. This split is often informed by the types of institutional configurations, their ... -
Network semiology: a vehicle to explore organisational culture.
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New bid-ask spread estimators from daily high and low prices.
(Article)Estimating trading costs in the absence of recorded data is a problem that continues to puzzle financial market researchers. We address this challenge by introducing two low frequency bid-ask spread estimators using ... -
A new spread estimator
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The nexus between technology absorption and firm growth in Africa: A resource-based perspective
(Conference)By drawing upon the Resource-Based View (RBV) theory, this study investigates the effects of human capital, credit, and electricity on technology absorption among firms in Africa. The technological absorption index for 40 ... -
On the efficiency of the global gold markets
(Article)This paper examines the weak-form efficiency of the global gold markets with specific focus on the random walks (RWS) and martingale difference sequence (MDS) hypotheses, and consequently, investigates the extent to which ... -
On the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis in management
(Article)Researchers now use qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) beyond its original purposes in political and sociological sciences and apply this method of analysis in the field of management. This article offers a ... -
Optimizing Domain Knowledge Representation with Multimedia Objects
(Book chapter)This chapter demonstrates the Multiple Representation (MR) approach to represent domain knowledge through multimedia objects (such as audio, pictures, and animations) into a multimedia interface world. Learners are provided ... -
Organisational theory
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Perceived regulator/ burden, institutional ties, financial resource capability and corporate social performance in a sub-Saharan African economy.
(Article)This study adopts the institutional, slack resource and social capital theories to examine the perceived regulatory burden-corporate social performance (CSP) link and the moderating effects of this relationship. The ...