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The adoption of deferred share unit plans for outside directors and shareholder wealth

Khalil S.; Magnan M.; Andre P. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2008)

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question-Issue: We examine the impact of the adoption of deferred share unit (DSU) plans for directors on a firm's stock market value. We also examine the differential response to plan ...
Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility synergies and interrelationships

Jamali D.; Safieddine A.M.; Rabbath M. (OXFORD9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND, 2008)

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Questions-Issue: This paper seeks to explore the interrelationships between corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR): first, theoretically, by reviewing the ...
Dual-class shares and audit pricing: Evidence from the canadian markets

Khalil S.; Magnan M.L.; Cohen J.R. (SARASOTA5717 BESSIE DR, SARASOTA, FL 34233 USA, 2008)

This paper investigates whether audit fees vary with the wedge between cash flow rights and control rights arising from the presence of dual-class share structures. Dual-class shares exist in firms having two or more classes ...
The effects of venture capitalist affiliation to underwriters on short- and long-term performance in French IPOs

Chahine S.; Filatotchev I. (, 2008)

This paper explores the signalling and monitoring effects of venture capital (VC) backing and venture capitalist affiliation to lead underwriters on performance of IPOs in France. IPOs in which VCs are affiliated to lead ...
Learning organizations: Diagnosis and measurement in a developing country context: The case of Lebanon

Jamali D.; Sidani Y. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the performance of a sample of Lebanese organizations vis-à-vis some of the core learning organization dimensions identified in the literature, focusing specifically on those ...
Knowledge transformation among virtually-cooperating group members

Feghali T.; El-Den J. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present how in a virtual setting a cooperating group of individuals could transform their tacit knowledge, and what is the necessary infrastructure needed for such transformation. ...
Underpricing versus gross spread: New evidence on the effect of sold shares at the time of IPOs

Chahine S. (, 2008)

This paper sheds light on the impact of initial owners' decisions to reduce underpricing at the time of initial public offerings (IPOs). Using a sample of 172 French IPOs, empirical findings indicate that the larger the ...
Economic growth and the balance of payments constraint: Implications for Cyprus's prospective EMU membership

Pattichis C. (, 2004)

Fast growing countries wishing to join a slow growing monetary union may experience growth costs since they have to rely on deflationary policies to tackle balance of payments deficits following the loss of their exchange ...
Enacting computer workaround practices within a medication dispensing system

Azad B.; King N. (BASINGSTOKEBRUNEL RD BLDG, HOUNDMILLS, BASINGSTOKE RG21 6XS, HANTS, ENGLAND, 2008)

Computer workarounds in health information systems (HIS) threaten the potential for gains in efficiency through computerization aimed at reducing process variability. Eliminating such workarounds is desirable, but information ...
A stakeholder approach to corporate social responsibility: A fresh perspective into theory and practice

Jamali D. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

Stakeholder theory has gained currency in the business and society literature in recent years in light of its practicality from the perspective of managers and scholars. In accounting for the recent ascendancy of stakeholder ...
An effective VNS for the capacitated p-median problem

Fleszar K.; Hindi K.S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

In the capacitated p-median problem (CPMP), a set of n customers is to be partitioned into p disjoint clusters, such that the total dissimilarity within each cluster is minimized subject to constraints on maximum cluster ...
Academic dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and contextual factors

McCabe D.L.; Feghali T.; Abdallah H. (NEW YORK233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, 2008)

Little work has been done on academic dishonesty in the Middle East. This research investigates the nature of the relationship between contextual factors and academic dishonesty using a sample from three private universities ...
Culture's influence on the perception of OCB as in-role or extra-role

Kwantes C.T.; Karam C.M.; Kuo B.C.H.; Towson S. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2008)

The relationship between dimensions of individual level culture-related variables (social axioms) and the categorization of organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB) as in-role versus extra-role was explored within a ...
Making e-Government systems workable: Exploring the evolution of frames

Azad B.; Faraj S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

As with other IT projects, implementing workable e-Government systems requires bringing together different stakeholders and bridging their perspectives during implementation. These perspectives often take the form of ...
The effects of information disclosure and board independence on IPO discount

Chahine S.; Filatotchev I. (OXFORD9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND, 2008)

This paper examines the effect of strategic information disclosure and corporate governance on the stock market performance of initial public offering (IPO) firms in France. It argues that information disclosure and board ...
Designing institutions and incentives in hospitals: An organization economics methodology

Eid F. (, 2004)

Recent seminal developments in organization economics, namely the decision rights approach, offer an opportunity to shed new light on an old question, the design of effective institutions. Drawing on conclusions about how ...
Examining alignment of frames using actor-network constructs: The implementation of an it project

Azad B.; Faraj S. (, 2007)

IT projects often cannot succeed without bridging different stakeholders' perspectives on system design and function during implementation. These perspectives often start as competing technology frames consisting of different ...
Tacit knowledge transfer among geographically distributed group members: An experimental analysis

El-Den J. (, 2007)

This research introduces the results of a study which was conducted on geographically distributed groups of students (54 groups of 3-4 students each in three different subjects) working on their term project development ...
The case for strategic corporate social responsibility in developing countries

Jamali D. (, 2007)

[No abstract available]
Governanace and performance of IPOs: The impact of private equity investors and legal institutions

Filatotchev I.; Bruton G.; Chahine S.; Wright M. (, 2007)

Although agency theory argues that there is a direct relationship between ownership patterns and performance, the empirical evidence to date has been mixed. However, previous studies have focused on samples of large mature ...

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