Performance plan adoption and corporate performance

Article Abstract:

Implementation of performance plan enhances the performance of companies. Adopter firms tend to have higher growth with regards to return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and working capital from operations to total assets (WCFO) than control firms. The second year of implementation, however, results to lower ROA, ROE and WCFO for adopters and control firms. General economy affects the performance of companies as shown by a decrease in ROA and ROE growth when gross national product improves.

Management-Productivity, Management-Goal Setting, Managers, Organizational effectiveness, Goal setting, Achievement motivation

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What is so special about emerging markets?

Article Abstract:

The seeming ambivalence of investors and managers towards emerging markets as a place of business and investments stems from the negative perception of the immaturity of the economic steps taken by such markets towards integration in the global economy. Emerging markets, while not as profitable as developed markets, has been shown in several research to have their own quality of profitability, as shown by the lack of definitive studies that measure the volatility of investment returns.

Personal Investing, Analysis, Personal finance, Investments, Developing countries, Sovereign debt market

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Firm performance measures: temporal roadblocks to innovation?

Article Abstract:

Performance measures based on market capitalization have a direct and significant relationship with research and development (R&D) changes. Market value measures, such as Tobin's q and excess value, exhibit a positive response to R&D investments of a company. On the other hand, profitability measures return on investment (ROI) and return on equity (ROE) exhibit a weak ability to illustrate financial benefits from investing in R&D.

Management Skills, Industrial research, Technological innovations, Career development, Management techniques

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