.... Design/methodology/approach Specifically, the paper looks at the Rotman/Clarkson (CCBE²) Canadian Board Shareholder Confidence Index as the measure of shareholder's perceptions of the board's efficiency as it relates to company performance. The index is ostensibly designed to capture...

... 2010 H3. The likelihood of director turnover is positively associated with the level of/increases in current firm risk. Company performance Risk analysis Employee turnover Directors In contrast to the plethora of literature on executive, primarily CEO, turnover...

... provides a better analysis of the effects of analyst activities on the firm value. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Financial analysis Company performance Stock returns Financial markets The value of information created by research analysts has been widely documented...

..., or nonlinearity, such that, the series will ultimately revert to its fixed mean. United States of America Management ratios Company performance Time series analysis The behaviour of the two key financial ratios, the dividend yield and the price/earnings ratio, and the present value model...

..., Jacobson (1987) suggests that ROI is a useful and perhaps the best available indicator of business performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Company performance Accounting Rate of return Organizational earnings Cash management Researchers in accounting, economics...

...Yuan Ding; Hervé Stolowy; Michel Tenenhaus Purpose The objective of this exploratory paper is to investigate the impact of R&D expenditures on company performance. R&D activities play an essential role in the future economic development and financial performance of firms. Design...