Article history: Received 22 January 2014 Received in revised form 25 May 2015 Accepted 26 May 2015 Available online 29 May 2015 This paper investigates VC investment stage drifts as explained by the outcomes of managerial incentive schemes under different financial market conditions and past return performances. We exploit a unique dataset containing data for all of the venture capital funds i...

Dependability analysis is crucial to control the risks resulting from failures in modern industrial systems whose complexity increases by leaps and bounds. This paper proposes a modeling approach to construct dynamic models of fault-tolerant (FT) systems based on Stochastic Activity Networks (SANs). This approach allows the systematic inclusion of the diagnosis performances to make the dependab...

Financial ratios provide useful quantitative financial information about company performance. Most of the economical, industrial, financial or political decision problems are multi-criteria. The application of multi criteria decision making methods significantly improves the robustness of financial analysis and business decisions in general. In this study, based on six wellknown financial perfo...

The purpose of the study is to determine the structural relationship between corporate governance and financial performance. The study develops a model linking corporate governance and financial performance then verifies it through structural equation modeling based on partial least square. The study is based on random sample of all Karachi Stock Exchange listed companies. Data related to corpo...

Extant research sees reputation as a significant corporate asset, but examinations of the downstream performance impacts of strong reputations have exhibited significant theoretical and empirical limitations and have consequently provided mixed evidence. Conceptualisations of the mechanisms by which firms’ reputations affect financial performance are underdeveloped, and empirical work suffers f...

Economic, social, and environmental issues are currently becoming major worldwide issues. Geopolitical, economic power streams have focused on ESG goals, encouraging companies, investors, governments to apply them every aspect of business. The current constraint is that Indonesian business stakeholders still typically short-term profits, which intended transform towards long-term sustainability...