By Richard E. Ottoo
July 29, 2016
How can we value an enterprise, like a young internet start-up company, that has no earnings or cash flows, so that traditional and conventional valuation techniques are therefore not applicable? One of the most notable recent industrial revolutions has been the emergence of Biotechnology and ...
By Robert B. Packer
January 16, 2019
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By James E. Mason
August 26, 2016
First published in 1998. A profound transformation of the commercial banking industry has occurred in recent years. The consolidation of local, independent banks into multi-bank holding company structures has altered the landscape of commercial banking. The Transformation of Commercial Banking in ...
By Yuhua Qiao
August 04, 2016
This study examines how the shared cultural values of employees in a Polish firm influence management attempts top transform organizational practices in a newly privatized factory. By introducing a foreign management approach, Total Quality Management (TQM), the management of this factory presents...
By Michael J. Rubach
August 04, 2016
This book examines the shareholder activism of institutional investors, and the effect of this activism on portfolio performance. By focusing on 118 institutional investors headquartered in the United States, the book is unique in addressing the shareholder activism of a large sample. ...
By Jarrad V.T. Harford
July 21, 2016
How much cash should a corporation have and should we worry when they have too much? This question has been hotly debated by manager and investors recently because managers of many of America's leading corporations have chosen to keep the spoils of the long economic expansion rather than return ...
By Lamia Obay
July 20, 2016
This book investigates the motivations behind the adoption of the technique of asset securitization by US commercial banks and its effects on the financial performances....
By Barbara Ann Good
June 23, 2015
Although the cashless society has been predicted for at least twenty years, the new forms of card-based and software based electronic money may prove to be a partial alternative to the current forms of payment. This study examines these emerging electronic money systems and their possible adoption...
By Ulwyn L. Pierre
February 27, 2015
First Published in 1999. Part of the Financial Sector of the American Economy series, this book addresses one much needed change in the corporate arena—the continuing inequality of opportunities for success that blacks experience relative to their similarly qualified white peers....
By Kevin Corder
August 01, 1998
First Published in 1998. The Federal Reserve System, the nation's central bank, is directed by statute to maintain maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates. This volume explores the Central Bank Autonomy, looking at preferences of central bankers, reserve ...
By Scott A. Frisch
December 01, 1998
First Published in 1999. This study develops a new way of studying pork barrel politics based on congressional behavior in the 1980s and 1990s....
By Go Tian Kang
August 01, 1999
First published in 1999. The present study does not challenge the argument that a managerial revolution occurred. It does modify the significance of the change by presenting evidence—for the first time—of the extent to which corporate managers themselves were beholden to major players in the ...