Two essays of this dissertation study the relationship between executive compensation and firm performance. These essays analyze both compensation level and compensation structure, and focus not only on CEO compensation but also on Top Management Team (TMT) compensation as well …
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Agency theory posits that firm performance is depending on agents' competency. Hence, this study investigates whether stock brokers compliant to SG-Rules is achieved due to the competency of the Executors (agent). Executors' technical knowledge (Tech-know) in the SG-Rules, level…
The increasing emphasis on integration among members of a supply chain has led to new mechanisms to help firms coordinate the flow of products, services, and information through the supply chain. Many studies support the importance and influence of supply chain integration on fi…
This research makes two contributions to construction research and practice. First, the research proposes and deploys a benchmarking model that is robust enough to address the limitations of the existing construction benchmarking models. Second, the research provides empirical e…
We explore the question of how IT could enhance firm performance and value, drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, by proposing and testing an integrated structural framework in which IT serves as an antecedent to customer-service performance. Recognizing that IT …
Equity seed capital for high technology entrepreneurial start-ups originates from multiple sources that include personal finance, private investors or angels, venture capital, government, and corporations. This research examines how the sources of seed capital and the structures…
The intense competition arising from globalisation requires MNCs to manage their HRs globally and strategically to become a source of competitive advantage. Hence, SIHRM acknowledges the need to balance global integration and local responsiveness, together with emphasising the i…
Today, the effective management of people is assuming prominence as a source of sustained business performance improvement. The rationale for this trend is that other significant aspects of business, such as marketing, new technology, market niche, trademarks and brand image hav…
The study has been conducted to examine the direct and indirect relationship between the determinants of electronic recruitment and firm performance through the mediating role of human resources management capabilities based on the resource based view theory. Therefore, this stu…
The connotation that intellectual capital (IC) replaces physical assets as the major source of competitive advantage (CA) is now generally accepted in both management and accounting literature. Thus, IC management has become a major concern for management regarding enhancing fir…
Entrepreneurial orientation is one of the most crucial and reliable means of achieving a sustained competitive advantage in organizations. This is done through an ongoing process of highlighting new opportunities that arise now and then in a typical business environment. This st…
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting co…
Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longterm incentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annual bonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines the relationship between shor…
This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing lite…
In this study we develop a framework examining technology absorption strategies and performance among LDC firms. We derive hypotheses regarding the impact of two main technology absorption strategies: Learning by doing and creation of volume flexibility on performance. Learning …
It is generally believed that a rise in foreign competition makes the industrial sector more efficient. By using a novel firm-level data set from a variety of industries in Pakistan, this dissertation revisits the productivity-liberalization link, and investigates the effect of …
The share of the industrial sector in GDP almost remained stagnant in many less developed economies for many decades. The liberalization and structural adjustment reforms that were expected to create necessary preconditions for a substantial industrial development of these econo…
Despite a growing body of research on dynamic capabilities, their contribution to competitive advantage and firm performance, as well as their origins remain unclear. This three-essay dissertation integrates the literatures on dynamic capabilities, environmental jolts, and impri…
This study uses the absorptive capacity perspective and adds the firm's commitment to enhance the internationalization process of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It is proposed that each of the dimensions of absorptive capacity should be considered a separate capability tha…