Salary increases for the marketing executive

This article discusses how marketing executives view their pay raise. A study of 491 marketing executives examined their views on what is a meaningful salary increase and the reasons why their companies give pay raises.     

高压防爆电磁阀轴销与螺钉断裂原因剖析

通过受力分析、断口分析、化学成分分析及金相检验等方法,从宏观力学及微观机理分析了电磁阀阀杆轴销与螺钉断裂的原因。结果表明,造成轴销断裂的原因是电磁阀关闭不当,螺钉断裂的原因是电磁阀试验过程中螺钉承受较大的轴向载荷。     

长三角一体化发展下区域专业化分工研究

基于产品互补模式和长三角地区产业发展现状,选取相关年份统计数据,运用专业化分工理论,构建研究模型,根据长三角地区产业发展趋势,测算2015—2019年长三角地区主要工业产品专业化系数,对长三角地区主要工业产品产业演变趋势进行实证分析,从区域化和特色化角度,具体研究长三角地区主要工业产品的专业化分工,并得出结论与建议:长三角地区由于自然条件、经济发展、历史特点、政策支持等各不相同,三省一市产业结构虽有相似,却又不尽相同,优势产业各具特色。通过区域内适当的专业化分工,不仅有利于降低产业结构同构化程度,也有利于长三角地区提升整体产业发展水平,从而促进长三角地区高质量一体化发展。     

CEO organizational identification and firm cash holdings

As the decision-makers and implementers of a firm’s financial strategy, executives play a critical role in cash holding activities, and their psychological characteristics have a major impact on cash holdings. This paper investigates the association between CEO organizational identification and firm cash holdings. The empirical results show that CEO organizational identification is negatively associated with firm cash holdings, and the negative association is more pronounced when the level of financial development is higher and economic uncertainty is lower. Further analysis reveals that the higher a CEO’s organizational identification, the higher the firm’s R&D investment and capital expenditure, and high CEO organizational identification can increase the value of firm cash holdings. Overall, our findings supplement the literature on organizational identification and cash holdings, and on the effect of executives’ psychological characteristics on corporate financial decision-making.     

Food for Thought? A Rejoinder on Peer-review and RAE2008 Evidence

This Rejoinder responds to criticisms made by Simon Hussain (2011) Hussain, S. 2011. Food for thought on the ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide. Accounting Education: an international journal, 20(6), : 545–559. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] about the construction and operation of the Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide. In this paper the broad purposes of journal lists and guides are outlined before an account is given of the long history and multiple forms of these lists, particularly in the field of Accounting. Having described the main features of different types of journal list, the advantages and benefits of the approach adopted in the compilation of the ABS Journal Quality Guide is outlined. The paper then ends by noting that one of the copy-editing mistakes identified by Dr Hussain has been rectified, but the remaining concerns about the rating of accounting education and accounting history journals reflect the absence of these titles from journal citation reports and international journal lists. Furthermore, the lower rating of Accounting & Finance research in the RAE2008 in comparison with Business & Management Studies research in the same year and Accounting & Finance research in 2001, has more to do with the way in which the Accounting & Finance Panel calibrated and normalized its judgements than with the ratings contained within the ABS Guide.     

Analysing the wealth effects of UK divestitures: An examination of domestic and international sales

Here we analyse divestiture announcement effects for UK multinational corporations accounting for the location of the unit sold. We find some bias in market reactions with larger abnormal returns for UK divestitures when compared to overseas sales. US sales generate larger returns than those in Continental Europe or the Asia-Pacific region. We analyse the determinants of abnormal returns using accounting and transaction data, supplemented with country specific data for overseas sales. Abnormal returns for UK sales are explained by financial characteristics of the selling firm but the size of the transaction relative to the firm is the most significant factor in overseas divestitures.