This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

Diversity initiatives aim to improve outcomes for low-status groups in organizations. Yet they also may ironically act as legitimizing cues, leading to an assumption of fairness and reducing the detection of discrimination. We explored how group status (high-status majority vs. low-status minority) and beliefs about the fairness of the system influence when the mere presence of a diversity init...

According to the competence-based theory, firm competencies are derived from capabilities that are unique in marketplace and are closely knitted within various business functions across the company. This paper provides a structured framework for evaluating the competencies of a firm using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). One distinctive feature of this framework is that a multi-criterion...