Firm performance

Chapter 12 - Strategic leadership. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Define strategic leadership and describe the importance of top-level managers, define top management teams and explain their effects on firm performance, describe the managerial succession process using internal and external managerial labor markets,...

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This thesis adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-approach, incorporating two inter-related studies investigates the resilience capabilities of Hong Kong-based SMEs. Specifically, the overall objective is to empirically examine the multidimensionality of resilience capability, and how each dimension is developed, utilized, and evolved over time and in various contexts. Study 1 involves a survey of 177 Hong Kong-based SMEs and explores the interrelationship between resilience capabilities and firm performance, and the moderating impact of environmental turbulence on these relationships.

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Based on the extant literature, theoretical underpinnings and the context of Vietnam, the research aims to study why and how Vietnamese food and garment companies adopt CSR practices.

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The study examines how Small-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) demonstrate a range of innovation capabilities when they collaborate with a regional university research centre. This collaboration is shown to be important to create and exchange new knowledge to advance the firms innovation performance. The study demonstrates the ability of firms to acquire and exploit this knowledge, which is a business competency described as absorptive capacity (AC). AC relies on several antecedents or factors to engage with a collective learning process.

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This thesis develops a contingency-based model for competitive advantage, tested over time on a sample of rapidly growing small-to-medium enterprises. Incorporating two independent studies, the project addresses interactions between specific elements of strategic orientation, strategic behaviour, firm performance, while examining the moderating role of environmental turbulence.

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This thesis investigates the infant formula export trade from Australia to China. The primary aim is to evaluate the main factors for success and failure among firms that export this dairy product. The research question to be answered is ‘What are the factors for success at the organisational level for exporting Australian Infant formula to China? This thesis argues that specific factors are required to successfully export Australian infant formula to China.

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This study examines the impact of intellectual capital and strategic orientations (market orientation, learning orientation and technology orientation) on innovation capability and firm performance of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Malaysia. The following sections introduce the research background and elaborate on the problems identified for further investigation. The rationale and objectives of the study are also presented. The chapter ends with an outline of the structure of this thesis.

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This thesis focuses on the management control function in Australian small businesses. The main function of a Management Control System (MCS) is strategy implementation. It is the system used by management to plan and control the firm’s performance. Elements of the MCS include strategic planning, budgeting, resource allocation, forecasting, performance measurement and evaluation and the core management accounting system (Anthony & Govindarajan, 2007).

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The purpose of the thesis "An empirical analysis of firm innovation capability and performance of Indonesian ICT SMEs" is to explore the antecedents of innovation capability and firm performance of ICT SMEs within clusters in Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia. A causal model was proposed and tested by using Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM). Findings reveal that intellectual capital is a major contributor of innovation capability. Surprisingly, being spatially close in a specific location does not trigger firms to have innovation capability.

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This thesis examines the influence of market (Narver & Slater, 1990), learning (Sinkula, Baker, & Noordewier, 1997), and entrepreneurial orientation (Lumpkin & Dess, 2001) as sources of competitive advantage in rapidly growing small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). The present thesis incorporates two studies (Study 1 and Study 2), utilizing a sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by undertaking quantitative data collection and analysis, prior conducting qualitative research (Cresswell, 2003).

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The research extends the understanding of these factors through the incorporation of Absorptive Capacity (ACAP). Accordingly, a model is developed that integrates ACAP, MVC and MV with market-driving innovation performance, comprising before-launch stage performance, post-launch stage performance and financial performance. External and internal structural factors relevant to the firm such as size and the nature of its competitive environment are also considered as moderators in the model.

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The thesis "Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Contemporary working capital practices in Australia" reports how fundamental factors such as firm size, company performance, credit ratings, industry, and education, gender, and age of the working capital manager play a vital role in the management of these areas. This paper’s major contribution lies in its examination of the behavioural aspects of working capital managers.

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Đề tài nghiên cứu nhằm kiểm tra mối quan hệ giữa các thành phần sở hữu trong cơ cấu sở hữu (ownership structure) và hiệu quả hoạt động (firm performance) của các công ty niêm yết trên sàn giao dịch chứng khoán TPHCM (HSX). Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo nội dung chi tiết.

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Bài nghiên cứu nhằm mục đích kiểm tra tác động của cấu trúc sở hữu (ownership structure) đối với hiệu quả hoạt động (firm performance) của các doanh nghiệp niên yết trên sàn chứng khoán thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (HOSE). Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo nội dung chi tiết.

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This study contributes to the literature of ownership structure and corporate governance and provides an evidence for SOHC as a positive ownership and monitoring mechanism in improving corporate governance and firm performance in companies with State-owned capital in Vietnam.

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The main objective of this thesis is based on the Agency Theory to understand the relationship between executive compensation and business performance; To base on the Managerial Power Theory to find out the factors that create executive power and how these affect the CEO's sensitivity to business performance; the impact of executive overconfidence on compensation and business performance.

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The thesis examines the impact of highly effective human resource management system on innovation and business performance; propose management implications to enhance business performance through improving the highly efficient human resource management system as well as enhancing innovation in the enterprise.

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The research content of this thesis is to find out the factors affecting the time of auditing financial statements by independent auditors in Vietnam. Please refer to the article for more details on the research content.

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Studying factors affecting the implementation of SMA and the impact on the performance of ME in Vietnam. Identify factors affecting SMA implementation of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises; Measuring the influence of factors on SMA implementation of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises; Measure the influence of SMA on the performance of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises.

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The thesis's primary research objective is to identify the impacts of budgeting on the performance of Vietnamese SMEs. Specific research objectives include examining the impacts of business budget's different aspects on the performance of Vietnamese SMEs; evaluating the controlling and moderation role of firm size and the mediating role of managerial performance in the relationship between budgeting and business performance of Vietnamese SMEs.

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