Intellectual capital factors at work in Dominican firms: understanding their influence

Firms and Intellectual Capital at the Turn of the Millennium

This paper is a review of firm level theorising and practice in the field of knowledge management and intellectual capital. The review is based on the premise that we are at the beginning of a new social and economic era: the knowledge economy. As such, a re-thinking effort is needed for all aspects of the society. This review traces the history of management principles and practices on the iss...

in translation: translators on their work and what it means

کتاب در باب ترجمه، اثر استر آلن و سوزان برنوفسکی منتشر شده در ماه می 2013 توسط نشریه کلمبیا است. نویسندگان در این کتاب به بررسی 18 مترجم با در نظر گرفتن نقش آثاری که این مترجمان ترجمه کرده اند میپردازند. کتاب به دو بخش تقسیم میشود: " مترجم در جهان" و " کار مترجم" این دو بخش مقالات همیشگی ترجمه و موقعیت خاص ادبیات بیگانه در جهان وسیع امروزی را مورد خطاب قرار میدهد. در این کتاب مقالات متعددی از ن...

Do Firms Rebalance Their Capital Structures?

We empirically examine whether firms engage in a dynamic rebalancing of their capital structures while allowing for costly adjustment. We begin by showing that the presence of adjustment costs has significant implications for corporate financial policy and the interpretation of previous empirical results. After confirming that financing behavior is consistent with the presence of adjustment cos...

Do Firms Rebalance their Capital Structure?

We empirically examine the trade-off theory of capital structure, allowing for infrequent adjustment. After showing that the behavior of financing decisions (security issuances and retirements) is consistent with direct evidence on external financing costs, we use a dynamic duration model to show that firms behave as though adhering to a dynamic trade-off policy in which they actively rebalance...

Understanding corporate value: managing and reporting intellectual capital