This study aims to see the influence of investment decisions measured by Price Earning Ratio (PER) and dividend policy Dividend Payout (DPR) on company value Book Value (PBV). The sample this consisted 11 companies included in LQ-45 group listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). uses classical assumption tests (nomality test, multicollinearity heteroscedasticity autocorrelation test) hypothesis w...

Case-based research was conducted on strategy and IT evolution in the Boeing Company. Results showed IT investment in the 20th century supported an increasingly decentralized hierarchical functional corporate organization structure, and shifted during the early decades of the 21st century toward an IT-enabled global network organization structure. IT investment context changed from an inward fo...

The collapse of sadly notorious American corporations whose retirement plans were primarily invested in company stocks has aroused a growing interest in understanding employees‟ investment decisions about company stock. American 401(k) plans and the French Company Savings Plans have in common to give employees the choice to invest among different kinds of funds. Some of them are invested in div...

We investigate the foreign direct investment projects of the multinational companies into the two major BRIC countries: India and China. Our results indicate that wage levels and country population and GDP growth are the major factors that affect company directors’ decision to invest into these countries.

Wholesale affiliates account for a significant share of the foreign earnings of multinational firms. Yet little is known about them since empirical work on multinationals typically focuses on manufacturing affiliates. Instead, it has been presupposed that wholesale affiliates are a form of exporting by the parent company, and not a form of foreign direct investment. This paper presents evidence...

t Wilkie's stochastic investment model and its variants have been increasingly applied by actuaries around the world to actuarial modeling and simulation. This paper performs time series outlier analysis on retail price inflation, which is the driving force of Wilkie's composite model. The data come from four developed countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The...

We study the problem of finding optimal strategies for a life insurance company or pension fund that acts on behalf of an insured so as to maximize the expected utility (in a general form) of the pension benefits through dividend allocation and investment in a financial market. We take the uncertain course of life of the insured into account and provide the full picture of the policy’s financia...

The present study tests the generalizability of the hidden investment hypothesis (Wakabayashi, Graen, Graen, & Graen, 1988) for Japanese management systems. The hidden investment hypothesis was derived from a 13-year longitudinal study of the career progress of a cohort of 85 college graduates who joined a single Japanese company in the same year, and states that the higher the quality of the v...