This study examines optimal environmental regulations and firms' responses under three production scenarios. The government's objective is to maximize social welfare by selecting the type and intensity of regulatory instruments, while firms seek to optimize profits by adjusting their optimal production ...
•Stockpricesareareflectionofacompany‟sprofitability.Ifmanagersdonotseektomaximizeprofits,stockpricesfallandfirmsaresubjecttotakeoverbidsandproxyfights.•Thecompensationofmanyexecutivesistiedtostockprice.TheGoaloftheFirm •Othergoalsthatthefirmmightpursue:•Thesizeofthefirm•customersatisfaction•workplace...
70% employ a cross-functional knowledge management system to maximize reuse in some cases on a global scale. Leaders in modularization were better at shortening the duration of a development process by 15-20%. Leaders use modularization with standardized interfaces across the full range of product ...
However, reliance on internal rather than external capital markets may also have undesirable consequences. It is usually argued that business groups seek to maximize the joint profit of all affiliates (Aoki,1984,1988), but they may also suppress productive activities in some member firms to protect...
On the other hand, CEOs with financial work experience are more adept at capital operations and can use their expertise to find the optimal investment portfolio, which can maximize the proportion of financial assets while keeping the risk within an acceptable range. Therefore, we believe that the...
“It’s important for search firms to develop and offer services to maximize transparency and minimize risk related to the hiring process,” Mr. Wendt said. “Companies who engage an executive search firm expect to identify the right person for the right position, the first time and every time...
Most of the listed companies in Finland seek to maintain a target capital structure in order to maximize firm value, by minimizing the costs of prevailing ... A Kjellman,S Hansén - 《Scandinavian Journal of Management》 被引量: 17发表: 1995年 Determinants of capital structure: static trade-...
There are a number of different theories that seek to explain the debt-equity decision. However, as stated above, none of them are able to fully explain the apparent under-use of the benefits of debt. The trade-off theory of capital structure states that firms should pursue a given debt ...
Thus, by expanding their network, exporters increase their chances to maximize their profit. The decision to engage in a discrete transaction with a potential buyer is based on the alignment of mutual interests. One of the respondents compared the process of initiating discrete transactions with ...
Act or Clayton Act. The FTC has thus tried to maximize its discretion and flexibility to bring Section 5 cases, regardless of whether there is an underlying antitrust violation. Injunctive Relief Under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.Private equity sponsors that hold controlling interes...