Browsing Department of Accounting and Finance by Title
Now showing items 194-213 of 416
-
Harnessing the potentials of technology incubation centres (TICs) as tools for fast-tracking entrepreneurship development ans actualisation of the Vision 20:2020 in Nigeria
(Article)Purpose - Entrepreneurship development in Nigeria requires the adoption and assimilation of enterprise development models from nations with replicable success stories. technology incubation centre (TIC) is one of the potent ... -
High frequency trading, price discovery and market efficiency in the FTSE100
(Article)This study examines the role of high frequency trading in price discovery and efficiency in the FTSE100 index tick changes. Using a unique data set, we find that there is no random walk when investors extract information ... -
Home country Institutional Impediments and International Expansion of Developing Country SMEs
(Article)Though institutional contexts are critical drivers of firms’ international expansion, very limited research efforts have focused on how and when these factors facilitate developing country firms’ outward market activities. ... -
Home country macroeconomic factors on outward cross-border mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from the UK
(Article)In this paper, we examine the dynamic effects of key macroeconomic factors on the UK crossborder mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A) outflows over the period 1987–2008. Using a seven variable vector autoregressive/vector error ... -
Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China
(Article)The paper investigates the effects of institutions and their interaction with firms’ research & development (R&D) levels on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in China based on a sample of 680 European Union (EU) firms ... -
How businesses deliver sustainability.
(Article) -
How Can National Governance affect Education Quality in Western Europe?
(Article)Purpose – As the international society faces unprecedented challenges associated with resource scarcity, governance scandals, increasing injustice and inequality, new opportunities for higher education institutions are ... -
How Corporate Governance affect Firm Value and profitability? Evidence from Saudi Financial and Non-Financial Listed Firms
(Article)This paper investigates the possible effects of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms on the firm market and accounting value (FV) in Saudi Arabia after the 2011 CG reforms using a sample of 300 annual reports of financial ... -
How do banks create money, and why can other firms not do the same? An explanation for the coexistence of lending and deposit-taking
(Article)Thanks to the recent banking crises interest has grown in banks and how they operate. In the past, the empirical and institutional market micro-structure of the operation of banks had not been a primary focus for investigations ... -
How does banking market power affect bank opacity? Evidence from analysts' forecasts
(Article)Whilst the ongoing banking regulatory reforms towards a comprehensive Basel III framework emphasise bank transparency, disclosure and a competitive banking market environment, very little is known about the empirical ... -
http://www.ecnmy.org/
(Other) -
Human Teacher in Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Forgotten Entity!
(Conference)Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have not yet proved successful and one major reason seems to be that research on ITSs has largely failed to recognise the role of the teacher in the ITS design process. This paper discusses ... -
Hyper-ITS: A web-Based architecture for Evolving and Configurable Learning Environment
(Article)The World Wide Web facilitates co-operative teaching and learning, offering an exciting potential for sharing both the learning resources as well as the tasks of creating new learning resources through international ... -
I will if you will: risk, feelings and emotion in the workplace.
(Book chapter) -
Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports
(Article)This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from UK FTSE 350 companies the results indicate a ... -
Impact of central bank independence, transparency and institutional quality on foreign equity portfolio allocation: a cross-country analysis
(Article)In this study, we analyse the effects of central bank independence (CBI) and central bank transparency (CBT) and their interactions with institutional quality on foreign equity portfolio inflows. Employing a dataset from ... -
The Impact of Community Expectations on Corporate Community Involvement Disclosures in the UK
(Article)Despite increase mistrust between corporations and societies in the aftermath of the global corporate misbehaviours, the literature examining the impact of community concerns on corporate communications is undeveloped. ...