Bowman’s risk-return paradox (1980) suggests that the management’s attitude towards risks and returns changes according to the company’s situation. This paper intends to compare different cultural backgrounds in the context of the same political and economic environments, as well as the same market benchmarks, in order to examine whether Western and Chinese management teams demonstrate the same...

We examine the role of different network capabilities of companies that influence the formation of R&D partnerships in pharmaceutical biotechnology. Strategic network capabilities, specifically centrality-based capabilities and the efficiency with which companies choose their partners, are found to facilitate the formation of new partnerships. Unlike general experience with partnering, these st...

This study sheds new light on the cross-sectional effects of inflation, which have substantial implications for stock valuation. I use financial statement analysis to examine systematic stockvaluation effects of aggregate price-level changes on individual companies, focusing on the implications for both researchers and investment practitioners. I develop inflation-adjustment procedures that are...

Usage of background knowledge about events and their relations to other concepts in the application domain, can improve the quality of event processing. In this paper, we describe a system for knowledge-based event detection of complex stock market events based on available background knowledge about stock market companies. Our system profits from data fusion of live event streams and backgroun...

We use data extracted from many weblogs to identify the underlying relations of a set of companies in the Standard and Poor (S&P) 500 index. We define a pairwise similarity measure for the companies based on the weblog articles and then apply a graph clustering procedure. We show that it is possible to capture some interesting relations between companies using this method. As an application of ...

the concept of value creation is gaining momentum in iran under the open regime. iranian companies are geared to understand and act upon the concept of shareholder value to stay competitive in this unfathomable and volatile environment. most executives today understand that, the need to create shareholder value is paramount and the world’s most competitive management teams are responding to the...

healthcare and Ranbaxy have been bought by Abbott and Daiichi Sankyo, respectively.[3] Cipla, an indigenous company, lone with a market share of about 5.4% tops the list of top 10 companies in India. The increasing presence of foreign companies among the top pharmaceutical companies in India is may be due to a few buyouts which happened in the recent past. Daiichi Sankyo, a leading Japanese pha...

An automatic stock market categorization system would be invaluable to individual investors and financial experts, providing them with the opportunity to predict the stock price changes of a company with respect to other companies. In recent years, clustering all companies in the stock markets based on their similarities in the shape of the stock market has increasingly become a common scheme. ...

Based on IFRS laws, British companies have started providing their reporting systems according to International Standards Requirements regarding disclosing their financial derivatives since January 2005. In 2013, Iran revised its Accounting Standard No. 15 to include the derivative instruments. The present study aims at investigating the effect of this revision on financial derivatives and inst...

The paper assesses the business default risk on a cross-national sample of 3000 companies applying for credit to an international bank operating in Romania. The structure of the sample replicates the structure of the general population of companies in Romania. Based on their past credit history, we have distributed the companies in seven classes plus the default, using and adapting the Standard...