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R&D intensity, knowledge creation process and new product performance: the mediating role of international R&D teams
(Article)Although previous studies have shown the positive effect of research and development (R&D) intensity on new product performance (NPP), our understanding about the mechanisms through which R&D intensity influence NPP is ... -
R&D investment, firm performance and moderating role of system and safeguard: Evidence from emerging markets
(Article)The relationship between R&D and firm performance is highly dependent on the external environment. Therefore, this paper examined the effects of country level investor protection (safeguards) and governance mechanisms ... -
Random Walk
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Rating Based CDS Curves
(Working Paper)In this paper, we explore the extent to which term structure of individual CDS spreads can be explained by the firm’s rating. Using the Nelson-Siegel model, we construct, for each day, CDS curves from a cross section of ... -
Rating based CDS curves
(Article)This paper explores the extent to which term structure of individual credit default swap (CDS) spreads can be explained by the firm’s rating. Using the Nelson–Siegel model, we construct, for each day, CDS curves from a ... -
Reflecting on Micro Finance in Poverty Reduction
(Article)Development policy has increasingly shifted towards expanding financial services to the poorer sections of the population following the Grameen Bank success. In spite of this and other micro finance success stories, the ... -
Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, political ties, and performance: Study of entrepreneurial firms in a developing economy
(Article)Purpose – Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, and political ties are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a ... -
Regulatory multiplicity and conflict: Towards a combined code on corporate governance in Nigeria.
(Article)Given the multiplicity of codes designed to regulate different stakeholders in terms of promoting good corporate governance, this paper examines areas of conflicts among the various codes and the associated implications for ... -
The relationship between bank size and the propensity to lend to small firms: New empirical evidence from a large sample
(Article)Small and medium-sized enterprises, in aggregate, are the biggest employer in most countries, accounting for about two thirds of all employment in the UK, more than 70% in Germany and about 80% in Japan. Small firms are ... -
Responsabilidad social y discapacidad intelectual
(Article)There are many aspects of corporate social responsibility which become manifest in different ways in different environments but human rights remains one of the 3 most important aspects. This paper commences with a review ... -
Rethinking macroeconomics: how G5 currency markets have responded to unconventional monetary policy
(Article)The G5 carry trade, where high interest rate currencies appreciate and low interest rate currencies depreciate, had been a persistent anomaly in financial markets since the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971. Conventional ... -
A Review of Internal and External Influences on Corporate Governance and Financial Accountability in Nigeria
(Article)No country exists in isolation, and as developing countries like Nigeria aspire to ‘international’ standards of accountability and governance suited to the developed economies, they are confronted with the reality that ... -
Risk-taking Propensity, Managerial Network Ties and Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy
(Article)The objective of the study was to examine the effect of entrepreneurs’ risk-taking propensity on firm performance and the moderating role of managerial network ties on this relationship in a sub-Saharan economy. This ... -
The role of corporate governance on CSR disclosure and firm performance in a voluntary environment
(Article)Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) on firm performance and the moderating role of corporate governance on the CSRD–firm performance relationship of ...