Can Foreigners Improve the Profitability of Emerging Market Banks? Evidence from the Vietnamese Strategic Partner Program

Foreign ownership and foreign management are often assumed to improve the efficiency of emerging market banks. Our article examines this relationship for the Vietnamese strategic partner program, where foreign banks have been allowed to take minority stakes in local banks. We add to the existing literature by distinguishing between ownership by foreign strategic and non-strategic investors, and between foreign management sent by the strategic partner and independent foreign executives. We show that only the presence of independent foreign executives has a positive impact on banks. We interpret these results as the consequence of conflicts of interest and power struggles between local shareholders and the strategic partner, which prevent efficiency in enhancing technology transfer.     

Globalization and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

While recent research into foreign direct investment (FDI) has focused on examining the importance of institutions, corruption, money laundering, and tax havens, the role of globalization on FDI has not yet been explored. This research investigates the impacts of globalization on outward FDI. We find that both overall globalization and its economic and social dimensions significantly positively influence outward FDI flows. We also demonstrate that beyond the level of globalization, corruption, money laundering, and the status of a country as a tax haven, cross-country similarity also plays an important role. Accordingly, policies specifically designed to increase the transparency of outward FDI flows should be required to address money laundering and the existence of tax havens.     

Fair value disclosures and crash risk

In response to the public criticism of the inadequate disclosures mandated by SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, the FASB issued ASU (Accounting Standards Update) 2010–06, Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements, and ASU 2011–04, Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements, in an effort to increase the reporting transparency. We examine whether the increased fair value disclosures required by these two updates effectively decrease crash risk, defined as the frequency of extreme negative stock returns. In support of the hypothesis, we find that increased transparency from these updates reduces crash risk among U.S. banking firms and that the reduction is greater in banks that have a higher level of Level 3 financial assets.     

Energy and CO2 emission relationships in the NAFTA trading bloc: a multi-regional multi-factor energy input–output approach

The North-America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has brought together the economies of Canada, Mexico, and the US into forming one of the largest trading blocs worldwide (within the top CO₂ emitters). However, the current global protectionist discourse threatens the agreement. This paper analyzes the energy and energy-related CO₂ emission relationships between NAFTA countries in 2014 to gain insights into the climate change implications of current integration and the possible cancelation of the agreement. The analysis is performed with a multi-regional version of the multi-factor energy input–output model. The results show that NAFTA has not built a single integrated energy system, though it has helped reduce energy-related CO₂ emissions. Moreover, if NAFTA is not revoked, further integration would depend on the capacity of the Mexican energy sector to converge to the performance of its trade partners’ energy sectors. Conversely, a broken deal would induce negative environmental externalities.     

Whither seniority? Career progression and performance orientation in South Korea

Framed by institutional theory, this study reassesses the influence of seniority on (HRM) in South Korea today. We analyze first the overall influence of seniority in business, second its significance for career progression (i.e. promotion), and third its relation to individual performance orientation. By conducting in-depth interviews among local and expatriate managers, we find that the role of seniority is still pronounced. Seniority-based promotion remains significant, and individual performance evaluation systems, as are typically found in Western countries, hardly fit the cultural environment and tend to be ineffective. By contributing to the extant theories on institutional dynamics and the convergence–divergence–hybridization debate alike, our results strengthen the culturalist approaches, holding that informal institutions persist and do not disappear quickly. Further, rather than moving towards global convergence, we see the Korean HRM system as being in a state of hybridization caused by coercive isomorphism resulting from experimentation with foreign best-practice systems. As a result, some HRM practices are dysfunctional. We recommend that firms should reinterpret their valuation of individual performance towards team achievements and pay more attention to the optimal team composition.     

企业数字化转型能否提高创新绩效？来自上市公司的经验证据

随着信息技术的快速发展,企业数字化转型已成为推动创新与竞争力提升的关键。该研究基于2007-2022 年中国上市公司的大规模数据样本,采用最小二乘法线性回归和中介效应模型等统计方法,探讨了企业数字化与创新绩效之间的关系,以期揭示数字化背景下企业如何通过技术应用与管理创新提升创新能力,为企业数字化转型实践提供理论指导和决策参考。研究发现,数字化转型显著提升了企业的运营创新绩效和市场创新绩效,其中不仅直接影响显著,还通过管理赋能、投资赋能、营运赋能和劳动赋能等多重内在机制间接促进了创新绩效的提升。该研究发现不仅为理论研究提供了新的视角,同时也为实践中企业数字化战略的制定提供了有力的策略建议。     

高管激励对企业绩效的影响研究 ——基于中小板上市企业的经验数据

公司绩效是企业价值最直观的表现,提高企业绩效是公司发展的重要目标,在提高公司绩效过程中,管理层扮演着重要的角色.高管人员是企业众多的人力成本当中最重要的,他们是公司的决策层,企业运营的核心人物,制定着公司的发展战略,执行董事会的目标,一定程度上决定了公司未来的发展方向,优秀的高级管理人员是企业核心竞争力的重要构成因素....     

大型散粮储运项目控制系统扩建和性能提升

随着粮食储运规模的不断扩大,大型散粮储运新建或扩建工程日益增多.技术人员在开发和设计自动控制系统时,常面临工艺复杂、流程控制繁琐、控制点多、控制网络节点分散、扩建工程与前期工程存在不同程度工艺交互、各期控制系统数据交互和系统融和以及为后期工程预留扩展接口等问题.本文主要总结大型散粮储运项目新建和扩建的实践经验,在流程作...     

略论新时期企业和谐劳动关系的构建

劳动关系是社会和谐程度的重要衡量尺度。劳动关系是否和谐不仅关系到国计民生,更牵扯到社会的稳定。本文阐述了构建和谐劳动关系的必要性,分析了我国企业劳动关系的现状和存在的主要问题,在此基础上,就如何构建新时期企业和谐的劳动关系提出了具体的建议,意在对"创建和谐劳动关系企业"工作起到促进作用,进而实现整个社会的和谐、进步。     

国外企业IT应用绩效评价理论的研究综述

IT已成为企业发展必不可少的工具,对IT应用的绩效进行评价具有重要的理论和实践意义。本文从功能导向、财务利益导向、战略导向和过程导向四个方面对国外现有的IT应用绩效评价理论进行分类和总结,分析了各自的研究重点和研究中的不足,在此基础上提出：过程导向的评价方式可能成为未来IT评价领域的主要方法。同时,下一步的研究中应关注对IT绩效的层次划分和各层次的关系研究。