This paper outlines the first stage of the ODARyT Tool, a semantic web approach to represent and retrieve information in a corporate memory. After a brief discussion about the meet points between semantic web and corporate memories, we describe our semantic approach related to a specific corporate memory located in the Networks and Telecommunication domain. The corporate knowledge is represente...

This paper investigates the relationship between director shareownership and corporate performance in South Africa using a sample of 169 listed firms from 2002 to 2007. Our results suggest a statistically significant and positive association between director shareownership and corporate performance. By contrast, we find no evidence of a nonlinear effect of director shareownership on corporate p...

In this paper, experimental responses of the clamped mild steel, copper, and aluminium circular plates are presented subjected to blast loading. The GMDH-type neural networks (Group Method of Data Handling) are then used for the modelling of the mid-point deflection thickness ratio of the circular plates using those experimental results. The aim of such modelling is to show how the mid-point de...

The development of U.S. corporate law has traditionally been explained through a race model: jurisdictions compete for corporate franchise taxes and thus corporate law converges towards efficiency. Recent critiques have undermined this argument without presenting a new model in its place. This paper develops theoretically and tests empirically two alternative theories of corporate law developme...

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the independent ventures. In particular, corporate ventures are more successful at developing radical in...

This Article analyzes corporate speech problems through the framework of corporate law. The focus here is on the "discourse norms" that regulate corporate speech to various corporate stakeholders, including shareholders, workers, and consumers. I argue that these "discourse norms" should be understood as default terms in the "nexus-of-contracts" that comprises the corporation. Having reviewed t...

Based on social-system theories, our study analyzes the (i) influence of institutional and external stakeholder pressure adoption corporate sustainability strategy (ii) role managerial motive in mediating pressures strategy. A questionnaire was developed to collect data from listed companies Sri Lanka, were analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling technique. The results show...

Using Panel Data methods, this paper examines the impact of institutional investors on corporate governance and corporate performance, based on samples of familial listed companies in China from 2006 to 2008. The research shows that after investing in familial listed companies, institutional investors would play an important role to improve corporate governance. Simultaneously, the proportion o...

The aim of the paper is to define the role of corporate responsibility in sustainable development of global firms. To be successful, global firms must be on the alert of emerging environmental trends and do their best to improve the corporate performance in line with key stakeholder expectations. In this respect, the management of corporate social responsibility highlights the criticality of th...