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Mahshid Mashreghi, Ebrahim Kalani, Alireza Elhami, Abas Farajpoor Alamdari, Iraj Bakhtiyari, Ehsan Kamrani
Companies are struggling in a highly competitive environment to accelerate their operations and operations. Discussions such as globalization and the expansion of networks such as the Internet are important issues that affect the resources, marketing, and oth…
Peiyi Chen
Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is influenced by many factors. In these factors, the impact of the financial development of the investing country is very important and obvious. An important support for an enterprise to make OFDI is to get a sufficien…
Yue Gao
Further recognition of women’s social value and the gradual improvement of women’s economic status have made the proportion of female independent directors on board rise year by year, which has received high attention from academia. Using data of A-share list…
Mario Mustilli, Rossana Piccolo, Eugenio D’Angelo
Since non-performing loans, despite the implementation of the Basel accords, which should have improved creditworthiness estimation, are strongly affecting European banks’ liquidity and stability, there could be a behavioral bias behind banks misallocation of…
Yuting Wu
Chinese enterprises have entered to the speed competition instead of the scale competition; the enterprises can match with the dynamic environment better through strategic transformation. In this paper, we selected 51 literatures about enterprise strategic tr…
Mohamed Buheji
Most of literatures on currencies of “Influencing without Power” focus on skills, internal organisation command chain, convincing, indirect power, or what makes people do specific task and to have attitude to cooperate with others to reach gaols. In this case…
Atif Alkinaidri, Hemaid Alsulami, Ayman Al-Nafea
The World Health Organization considers the referral system, begun in 1978, to be one of the primary components of any medical system. Referral is the procedure of directing a patient to an appropriate specialist or agency. This research uses King Abdullah Me…
Jiebin Zhou
The results of existing researches of the relationship of diversification-performance are unstable and contradictory. Hence, according to the theory of TMT faultlines, this empirical study utilizes a panel smooth transition (PSTR) model to investigate whether…
Kening Yao
This paper examined the impact of cost stickiness on company risk by using the data of listed manufacturing companies of Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015. The research shows that the cost stickiness significantly increases the risk level of companies.…
Tahereh Alsadat Mirkhalili, Hamid Khajeh Mahmoudabadi
The flexibility plays an important role in making the managers powerful in the regard of investment in the future. The problems of the capital market have necessitated the maintenance of flexibility for the companies for the purpose of using profitable opport…
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