Hedge fund characteristics and performance Are there any fund or managerial characteristics that are associated with superior performance?
By turning rates of bunting, stealing and pinch-hitting into hair sizes, nose shapes and smile widths, Dr. Wang used a kind of statistical Mr. Potato Head to portray the spectrum of managerial characteristics in a way that intrigued even the skippers themselves.
This study has dual aims: first, to recognize and validate the firm׳s social media (SM) efforts in its use of the Facebook platform; second, to examine the relationships among the firm׳s SM efforts and some firm and managerial characteristics.
Inspired by an extended Technological, Organisational and Environmental (TOE) framework, this paper investigates effects of technological characteristics (TC), organisational characteristics (OC), environmental characteristics (EC) and managerial characteristics (MC) on start-up companies' intentions to adopt SCRM applications.
This relation is robust to controlling for a battery of time-varying firm characteristics (e.g., size, performance, and growth opportunities), managerial characteristics (e.g., tenure, age, and equity incentives), and state characteristics (e.g., local economic growth, corporate taxes, and political affiliation of the local legislature).
Recently, studies have explored the effects of technological, organizational, environmental, and managerial characteristics on SCRM adoption [4, 42 44].
A recent strand of managerial characteristic literature focuses on the role of managerial foreign experience.
Upper echelons theory suggests that organizational outcomes (e.g., strategic choices and performance levels) can be predicted by managerial background characteristics (Hambrick and Mason 1984).
The study identifies thirty-six such variables, falling in the categories of firm demographics, export venture characteristics, managerial factors, environmental and operational factors, and international trading environment.
This paper proposes a mathematical model to associate key operational, managerial and design characteristics of a system with the system's susceptibility towards common cause failure (CCF) events.
In the first classification, the internal factors are those directly related to the owner: individual characteristics, managerial abilities, and so on.
