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Publication date: 8 January 2020

Marcus A. Valenzuela, Guowei Jian and Phillip M. Jolly

The purpose of this paper is to examine how organizational diversity may be associated with immigrants’ quality of coworker relationships. More specifically, this paper examines…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine how organizational diversity may be associated with immigrants’ quality of coworker relationships. More specifically, this paper examines how immigrants’ perceived deep-level similarity and perceived workplace ethnic diversity may be associated with their quality of coworker relationships.

Design/methodology/approach

A final sample of 347 immigrant employees were surveyed. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses.

Findings

Immigrants’ quality of coworker relationships is positively associated with their perceived deep-level similarity with other coworkers. In addition, perceived workplace ethnic diversity moderates this relationship such that the relation is stronger as perceived workplace ethnic diversity increases.

Research limitations/implications

The study and analyses are based on cross-sectional and single-source data and cannot determine causality. The study is also restricted to immigrants in the USA.

Practical implications

Findings provide evidence that increased levels of ethnic diversity and deep-level similarity in the workplace may improve immigrants’ quality of relationships, helping them integrate more successfully in organizations. Thus, managers seeking to benefit from diversity should strive for the creation of truly multicultural organizations or workgroups and focus on fostering similarities in deep-level attributes to maximize their potential.

Originality/value

Immigrants are an important asset for organizations, but research about their inclusion in organizations is limited, especially when examining their integration in their workplaces. This study addresses some of these limitations by looking at the effect of diversity in organizations.

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Employee Relations: The International Journal, vol. 42 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 14 November 2008

Ben Lau, Alex Proimos and Sue Wright

The purpose of this paper is to analyse success at the corporate level for 72 Australian mergers between publicly listed firms during the period 1999‐2004, and to reassess…

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse success at the corporate level for 72 Australian mergers between publicly listed firms during the period 1999‐2004, and to reassess evidence in earlier Australian studies that contrasts findings from other countries which report a decline in post‐merger operating performance.

Design/methodology/approach

A number of accounting operating performance measures for profitability, cash flow, efficiency, leverage and growth are used to proxy for the success of the merger, which is defined in terms of an improvement in each merged firm's industry‐adjusted operating performance between the pre and post‐merger period. Both non‐parametric and parametric comparisons of these measures are presented.

Findings

Some evidence that mergers improve the operating performance of the post‐merger firm is found. Industry adjusted profitability, cash flows, efficiency and leverage measures were higher in the post‐merger period.

Research limitations/implications

The findings of this study are limited by the small sample size, the focus on listed firms, and the use of only operating financial measures of merger success. Future research could examine more mergers over a longer time period, use alternative methods of performance benchmarking, and use alternative measures of merger success, such as share price performance.

Originality/value

Australian mergers led to improved corporate performance during the period 1999‐2004. This result is consistent with findings in other countries but has not been found in prior Australian research.

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Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0967-5426

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Publication date: 23 February 2010

Ben Lau and Alex Proimos

The purpose of this paper is to investigate bidder and target returns in the time surrounding merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate bidder and target returns in the time surrounding merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper employs parametric and non‐parametric tests and regressions on holding period and abnormal returns to bidder and targets using indicators for equity and mixed financing, hostility, and Fama‐French SMB and HML factors.

Findings

The paper provides evidence that the cumulative average abnormal returns to shareholders of bidder companies in equity financed mergers following an M&A announcement are significantly negative.

Practical implications

The paper highlights the fiduciary duty of bidder company management and M&A advisory professionals to bidder company shareholders.

Originality/value

The paper updates the limited research on hostility and bidder returns in Australian M&A literature by re‐examining the share price performance over various windows and controlling for the Fama‐French factors.

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International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1743-9132

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Publication date: 1 February 1989

Prof. and Karl Socher

Unter intelligentem Tourismus soll hier ein Tourismus verstanden werden, der möglichst wenig negative Wirkungen auf die Umwelt (vor allem die Landschaft, aber auch Wasser, Luft…

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Unter intelligentem Tourismus soll hier ein Tourismus verstanden werden, der möglichst wenig negative Wirkungen auf die Umwelt (vor allem die Landschaft, aber auch Wasser, Luft usw.), die Wirtschaft und die Gesellschaft hat. Im folgenden soll primär auf die Umweltwirkungen des Tourismus eingegangen werden, während seine Wirkungen auf die Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft vernachlässigt werden.

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The Tourist Review, vol. 44 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0251-3102

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Publication date: 10 June 2020

Robin Bell and Thanh Trung Pham

The transfer of knowledge has been identified as an important part of the family business succession process. This paper examines the knowledge transfer process from the founder…

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Purpose

The transfer of knowledge has been identified as an important part of the family business succession process. This paper examines the knowledge transfer process from the founder to the successor to understand and model the factors that influence the knowledge transfer process in the Vietnamese family business context.

Design/methodology/approach

This research adopts an inductive qualitative approach, conducting face-to-face semi-structured interviews with five father-son succession pairs. The interviews with founders and successors, ten in total, formed the basis of five case studies. The cases were all at an advanced stage of the process of business knowledge transfer and family business succession.

Findings

A contextualized model was developed, highlighting the main factors that influence the knowledge transfer process from the founder to the successor in a Vietnamese family business context. This model identifies the influence of factors, some of which are not commonly presented in western family business literature. These include the importance of the role of the mother in mediating the relationship quality between the founder and the successor and the successor pursuing education and external work experience to improve their cognitive and reflective abilities. The need for the affinity between family members is also highlighted as important.

Originality/value

In Vietnam, most family-run businesses are still under the control of the founder. This research provides insight into the succession process in Vietnam. This research addresses calls for further exploration into the factors that influence the transfer of knowledge in the family business succession process and to research this process in a collectivist society, both of which remain under-researched.

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Journal of Family Business Management, vol. 11 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2043-6238

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Publication date: 6 March 2020

Janika Raun, Noam Shoval and Margus Tiru

Understanding the essence of tourism flows is one of the fundamental undertakings of tourism geography research and a key issue behind effective destination management and…

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Purpose

Understanding the essence of tourism flows is one of the fundamental undertakings of tourism geography research and a key issue behind effective destination management and development. However, thus far, few studies have analysed tourist movement on a national scale. This is due to the deficiency of spatially accurate data that can be used for recording tourists’ intra-national movements. This paper aims to illustrate the impact of major gateways on national tourism flows by using tracking data; and demonstrate and compare the use and applicability of tracking data on a national scale.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the authors analyse foreign tourists’ movements using two spatially and temporally precise tracking data sets – call detail records from passive mobile positioning data and GPS data from smartphones – in two countries, Estonia and Israel. The movements of international tourists entering the countries via main gateways are studied, with a focus on the impact of gateways on intra-national tourism flows.

Findings

The results clearly show the impact of gateways on the concentration of tourists. In the two respective countries, the critical mass of time was spent in close proximity to the gateway and, due to distance decay, a dramatic decrease was seen in visitation to areas that were distanced from both countries’ core areas.

Originality/value

To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first time when tourism flows attained from tracking data are compared on a national scale for two countries.

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International Journal of Tourism Cities, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2056-5607

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Publication date: 22 September 2022

David R. Clough and Balagopal Vissa

We advance entrepreneurship research by developing a theoretical model of how founding teams form. Our neo-Carnegie model situates nascent founders in particular

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We advance entrepreneurship research by developing a theoretical model of how founding teams form. Our neo-Carnegie model situates nascent founders in particular network-structural milieus, engaging in aspiration-driven search for and evaluation of prospective co-founders. The formation of co-founding ties between nascent founders can be divided into four theoretical steps, which we label activation, evaluation, approach, and reciprocation. Successful founding team formation is a consequence of mutually favorable evaluations by nascent founders in a multi-sided matching process. Nascent founders with higher and less flexible aspirations are more likely to undertake distant search for co-founders by seeking referrals, forming ties with strangers, and forming new ties to social foci where they might meet potential co-founders. Churn in newly formed founding teams emerges as a consequence of shifting dominant coalition dynamics in the founding team caused by organic venture evolution and intentional changes in strategic direction. Our theoretical model provides new insights on the formation pathways of founding teams, their initial task and relational resource endowments, and initial team dynamics.

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Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-662-2

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Publication date: 11 July 2023

Venancio Tauringana, Laura Achiro and Babajide Oyewo

This chapter investigates the social determinants (urbanisation, population, literacy and corruption) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the top 100 developed and developing…

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This chapter investigates the social determinants (urbanisation, population, literacy and corruption) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the top 100 developed and developing emitting countries. The data were collected from central repositories for the different variables explored for the period 2012–2020 in a cross-country analysis. Fixed effects ordinary least squares (OLS) regression was used to analyse the data. The results for all top 100 countries and developing countries show that urbanisation and corruption are significantly positive and negative determinants of GHG emissions, respectively. In addition, literacy is a significant positive determinant of GHG emissions in developing countries but not in the top 100 and developed countries. Population is not significant in the top 100 developed and developing countries. The results for the control variables suggest that primary energy consumption is a positive significant determinant of GHG emissions in the top 100 developed and developing countries. However, gross domestic product (GDP) is not a significant determinant of GHG emissions. The findings have important policy implications.

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Green House Gas Emissions Reporting and Management in Global Top Emitting Countries and Companies
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80262-883-8

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Publication date: 7 November 2016

Ben-Roy Do, Pi-Wen Yeh and Jean Madsen

Human resource (HR) flexibility is a firm-level capability that consists of employee skill flexibility, employee behavior flexibility, and HR practice flexibility. HR flexibility…

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Human resource (HR) flexibility is a firm-level capability that consists of employee skill flexibility, employee behavior flexibility, and HR practice flexibility. HR flexibility allows organizations to adapt and be responsive to changes in their environments. Findings from this paper indicate that if the organization is highly innovative and has flexible HR policies, then that influences organizational culture, risk-taking and experimentation within a firm. This paper has also revealed that process innovation mediates between adaptability culture and product innovation. It also revealed that managers should emphasize processes to improve efficiency for resource exploitation. The lessons learned from process innovation activities indicated that having a strong knowledge base assists a firm in developing innovative technology such as automation for manufacturing, handling and testing or simply smart manufacturing.

Design/methodology/approach

Questionnaires were sent to employees at 23 Taiwanese companies in high-tech industries, where innovation is the key to their survival, and 293 valid surveys were collected. Structural equation modeling, (SEM) using IBM SPSS Amos, was used to test the hypotheses.

Findings

The results fully support the hypotheses that HR flexibility positively influences adaptability culture and contributes to organizational innovation. Furthermore, it was found that adaptability culture has a direct impact on process innovation and an indirect impact on product innovation through process innovation.

Originality/value

The critical role of HR flexibility and adaptability culture on organizational innovation in the high-tech sector were highlighted. The importance of HR flexibility is emphasized to provide managerial hints to top managers.

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Chinese Management Studies, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-614X

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

Shi‐Wei Ricky Lee, Ben Hoi Wai Lui, Y.H. Kong, Bernard Baylon, Timothy Leung, Pompeo Umali and Hector Agtarap

Evaluates the board level reliability of plastic ball grid array (PBGA) assemblies under thermal and mechanical loading, with the objective of characterizing the reliability of…

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Evaluates the board level reliability of plastic ball grid array (PBGA) assemblies under thermal and mechanical loading, with the objective of characterizing the reliability of lead‐free solder joints for various assembly conditions. A five‐leg experiment was designed which included various combinations of solder materials and peak reflow temperatures. It was found that the lead‐free solder joints have a much longer thermal fatigue life than the 63Sn–37Pb solder. The 63Sn–37Pb solder joints seem to perform slightly better than the lead‐free solder under mechanical loading.

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Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0954-0911

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