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6 Citations
4,082 Views
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30 November 2020

This study aims to investigate the relationship between company reputation and the implied cost of capital in Korean companies from 2003 to 2016, based on research by Cao et al. (2015). In addition, we would like to examine the effect of tax avoidanc...

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  • Open Access
2,103 Views
24 Pages

This research examines the relationship between capital structure, intellectual capital, and financial performance among insurance companies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Anchored in a positivist paradigm, the study employed descriptive and quantitati...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,278 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2023

The purpose—The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between working capital and profitability in the context of the wine industry. Design/methodology/approach—Artificial neural networks were used to analyze the relationship b...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,089 Views
16 Pages

14 January 2021

The aim of this article was to present the results of empirical research conducted in enterprises of all sizes operating in Poland and Central Europe. The study focused on the impact of relational capital on the prevention of and intervention in the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,118 Views
14 Pages

27 January 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of capital structure as mediating variable in the relationship between corporate governance and company performance. Data for this study was obtained from financial statements and was done in Indon...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,873 Views
15 Pages

Establishing a Dynamic Capital Structure Model for Company Sustainability Performance Using Data Mining Techniques

  • Mu-Jung Huang,
  • Kuo-Chih Cheng,
  • Ching-Ju Huang,
  • Kun-Meng Lin,
  • Huo-Ming Wang,
  • Cheng-Kuo Chuang and
  • Ming-Cheng Wu

27 May 2021

In order to reconsider the changes of adjustment speed caused by the recapitalization cost, this research adopted dynamic capital structure theory with adjustment speed as one of the independent variables to analyze the relationship between capital s...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,761 Views
20 Pages

The Impact of CSR on the Capital Structure of High-Tech Companies in Poland

  • Barbara Grabinska,
  • Dorota Kedzior,
  • Marcin Kedzior and
  • Konrad Grabinski

13 May 2021

So far, CSR’s role in the high-tech industry is not fully explained by academic research, especially concerning the most burdensome obstacle to firms’ growth: acquiring debt financing. The paper aims to solve this puzzle and investigate whether young...

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  • Open Access
2,176 Views
17 Pages

This article considers the impact of self-sufficiency in basic raw materials on the level of systematic risk, required return and capitalization on the example of Russian ferrous metallurgy companies. The methods applied include classical approaches...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,277 Views
16 Pages

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics, and sustainability have become an inseparable part of the discourse of modern business. Applying linear regression and comparison of intervals of beta-coefficients, we focused on the mediating role of CS...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,879 Views
23 Pages

26 April 2023

Intellectual Capital (IC) stimulates corporate competitive advantages that can enhance firm performance and sustainable growth (SG). This study investigates IC’s affinity with and impact on accounting and market performance and SG of listed non...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,087 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2023

This paper aims to emphasize the quantification of intellectual capital, not disclosed on the assets side of the balance sheet in the smart and knowledge-based enterprise, because it is very important for the more precise quantification of the profit...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,200 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2022

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and firms’ financial leverage by exploring whether firm profitability mediates this relationship, using a dataset of Chinese agricultural listed compan...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,532 Views
16 Pages

Companies’ Sustainable Growth, Accounting Quality, and Investments Performances. The Case of the Romanian Capital Market

  • Mihai Carp,
  • Leontina Păvăloaia,
  • Constantin Toma,
  • Iuliana Eugenia Georgescu and
  • Mihai-Bogdan Afrăsinei

23 November 2020

The paper analyzes the influence of sustainable growth (SGR) as a reflection of the manner of strategic business organization, particularly in the quality of reported financial information (magnitude of discretionary accruals—DAC) as an express...

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  • Open Access
3,767 Views
20 Pages

Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosures and Market Reaction of Thai-Listed Companies in the Alternative Capital Market

  • Muttanachai Suttipun,
  • Pankaewta Lakkanawanit,
  • Alisara Saramolee,
  • Zulnaidi Yaacob and
  • Sillapaporn Srijunpetch

The primary aim of this research is to investigate the influence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures on the market reaction companies listed in Thailand’s alternative capital market, specifically the Market for Alternativ...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,000 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2017

Credit risk rating is shown to be a relevant determinant in order to estimate good corporate governance and to self-optimize capital structure. The conclusion is argued from a study on a selected (and justified) sample of (182) companies listed on th...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,017 Views
21 Pages

6 October 2022

To expand the applicability in practice of the modern theory of cost and capital structure, the theory of Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO), which is valid for companies of arbitrary age, is generalized for the case of variable income. The generalized t...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,428 Views
19 Pages

The Generalization of the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova Theory for the Case of Payments of Tax on Profit with Arbitrary Frequency

  • Peter Brusov,
  • Tatiana Filatova,
  • Natali Orekhova,
  • Veniamin Kulik,
  • She-I Chang and
  • George Lin

18 April 2022

Both main theories of capital cost and capital structure—the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO) theory and its perpetuity limit, the Modigliani–Miller theory—consider the payments of tax on profit once per year, while in real economy these payments are m...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,065 Views
18 Pages

Social Capital in Energy Enterprises: Poland’s Case

  • Elżbieta Jędrych,
  • Dariusz Klimek and
  • Agnieszka Rzepka

13 January 2022

Social capital is currently perceived as one of the basic factors of economic development and economic success of enterprises. However, while there is already much research on social capital in enterprises, there has been little such research in the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,697 Views
15 Pages

The Value of Social Capital for the Success of SPAC IPOs

  • Roszaini Haniffa,
  • Mohammad Hudaib and
  • Tasawar Nawaz

This paper explores the role of social capital in contributing to the success of a new breed of organizations known as ‘blank check companies’ or special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that are set up solely to target and acquire l...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,772 Views
13 Pages

11 June 2022

The modern capital cost and capital structure theory—the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO) theory and its perpetuity limit, the Modigliani–Miller theory—describe the case of the payments of income tax at the end of the year. However, in practice, compan...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,409 Views
25 Pages

The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of structural capital intensity and utilization on firm profitability in an international setting: the European Union countries, plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The indicators are...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,879 Views
13 Pages

23 September 2021

The implementation of good governance and attention to resources will affect company survival. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of good corporate governance and intellectual capital on financial performance and company value throug...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,490 Views
21 Pages

24 February 2022

This article aims to show how the globalized securities market in general and a transnational legal business structure named variable interest entity (VIE) in particular has challenged our conventional understanding of “foreignness” as a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,903 Views
16 Pages

Optimum Structure of Corporate Groups

  • Stylianos Artsidakis,
  • Yiannis Thalassinos,
  • Theofanis Petropoulos and
  • Konstantinos Liapis

Corporate groups consist of a set of companies, often described as subsidiaries, which are usually controlled by one single entity, the parent or holding company. The term control means the parent company’s rights to direct the relevant activit...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,151 Views
20 Pages

Two modifications of a modern theory of capital structure—the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO) theory—with variable income are considered: (1) with the income tax payments at the end of periods and (2) with advance income tax pa...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,733 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Employee Development Practices on Human Capital and Social Capital: The Mediating Contribution of Knowledge Management

  • Ahmad Adnan Al-Tit,
  • Sura Al-Ayed,
  • Abdulaziz Alhammadi,
  • Mohammad Hunitie,
  • Aktham Alsarayreh and
  • Wijdan Albassam

There is a shortage of research investigating the link between employee development practices and intellectual capital as mediated by knowledge management. The aim of the current research was to consider the influence of employee development practice...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,981 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2022

Working capital management is a crucial pillar in corporate finance. The performance of transport companies can be improved by efficient working capital management through cash management, inventory management, and receivables management. This approa...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,614 Views
24 Pages

Generalization of the Modigliani–Miller Theory for the Case of Variable Profit

  • Peter Brusov,
  • Tatiana Filatova,
  • Natali Orekhova,
  • Veniamin Kulik,
  • She-I Chang and
  • George Lin

3 June 2021

For the first time we have generalized the world-famous theory by Nobel Prize winners Modigliani and Miller for the case of variable profit, which significantly extends the application of the theory in practice, specifically in business valuation, ra...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,973 Views
24 Pages

13 September 2021

The mission statements of companies reflect the characteristics of their country. There are differences in the content of mission statements between traditional and innovative companies. The sustainable growth of companies has recently become a major...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,751 Views
14 Pages

Capital Allocation Methods under Solvency II: A Comparative Analysis

  • Pablo Durán-Santomil and
  • Luís Otero-González

19 January 2022

The objective of this document is to analyze different methods that an insurer can use to allocate capital to his or her different lines of business or business segments under Solvency II. For this analysis, a review of the main methods developed in...

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  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,177 Views
17 Pages

8 August 2017

This work provides a novel approach to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept and to CSR activities, using social capital as the driver of consumer citizenship behavior in the sharing economy business system. An online consumer questionnai...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
16 Pages

Researchers in developed countries have questioned whether share repurchase activity influences internal investment. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between share repurchases and internal investment (defined as capital expen...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,671 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Firm Size on the Association between Capital Structure and Profitability

  • Amanj Mohamed Ahmed,
  • Nabard Abdallah Sharif,
  • Muhammad Nawzad Ali and
  • István Hágen

18 July 2023

This paper examines the association between capital structure and firm profitability through the moderating effect of firm size. The analysis of financing choice and firm profitability in developing countries is interesting because of the differences...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,265 Views
14 Pages

The study analyses the impact of financial reputation on the cost of debt financing for Indian companies. In doing so, panel regression analysis is performed using firm-specific data on 395 Indian listed firms covering 2002–2017. The paper uses...

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  • Open Access
103 Citations
10,798 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2019

Intellectual capital (IC) is considered to be a main driver of organizational success in the knowledge economy. This study examines the impacts of three IC components, including human capital (HC), structural capital (SC), and relational capital (RC)...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,269 Views
16 Pages

Public Housing Companies (PHCs) play an important role in the Swedish housing market, with approximately 300 companies managing circa 802,000 dwellings. The public housing sector thereby represents almost 20 percent of the total housing stock in Swed...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,765 Views
19 Pages

28 April 2023

The capital structure and its indicators play a significant role in corporate finance. The aim is to estimate business performance using selected indicators describing primarily the capital structure, asset structure, or liquidity of transport compan...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,057 Views
23 Pages

Methodology and Practical Test of Human Capital Assessment of Ukrainian Oil and Gas Enterprises in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • Galyna Malynovska,
  • Jan Pawlik,
  • Galyna Kis,
  • Radosław Wolniak,
  • Sviatoslav Kis,
  • Oleh Yatsiuk and
  • Michał Bembenek

7 March 2025

This paper proposes and tests a methodology for evaluating the human capital of oil and gas industry enterprises. The methodology is based on previously developed mathematical and test tools, with enhancements to support decision-making in human capi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,659 Views
19 Pages

2 October 2023

Intelligent transformation plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable development in manufacturing while also enhancing the information environment. This study examines the role of intelligent transformation in China’s manufacturing sector,...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,773 Views
13 Pages

In the capital market and financing theory, we are currently observing major upheavals. For decades, the neoclassical paradigm has dominated in science and practice. Triggered by economic and political crises, transformations, the COVID-19 pandemic,...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,407 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2024

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on firm financial performance using data from Chinese agricultural listed companies during 2015–2020. The moderating role of board diversity in...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,806 Views
25 Pages

25 May 2021

The main purpose of the current study is the generalization and further development of the Modigliani–Miller theory taking into account one of the conditions of the real functioning of companies for the case of paying income tax with an arbitrary fre...

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  • Open Access
3,303 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2023

Capital structure plays an important role in corporate finance, especially in the period of restrictive monetary policy in many developed countries. This paper aims to estimate the debt ratio based on five selected financial indicators: tangibility,...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,166 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2023

Digital innovation is the key for enterprises to obtain core competitiveness in today’s increasingly fierce market environment. Based on a sample of high-tech manufacturing companies listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares from 2011 to 202...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,788 Views
15 Pages

Capital Intensity and Labour Productivity in Waste Companies

  • Martina Novotná,
  • Ivana Faltová Leitmanová,
  • Jiří Alina and
  • Tomáš Volek

9 December 2020

At first glance, it might seem that the economic aspects of sustainability in terms of waste management have resolved themselves already in areas of activity. In reality, however, companies in this area also need to address how to ensure their future...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,423 Views
18 Pages

9 February 2023

The purpose of this study is to explain the justification for taxing corporate rents as a funding source for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to calculate a normative corporate tax rate that takes into account rents for corporations, especia...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,770 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Intellectual Capital on the Firm Performance of Russian Manufacturing Companies

  • Angi Skhvediani,
  • Anastasia Koklina,
  • Tatiana Kudryavtseva and
  • Diana Maksimenko

13 April 2023

The manufacturing industry makes a significant contribution to Russia’s GDP and exports, but it faces problems that hinder its development. The aim of this study is to estimate the relationship between intellectual capital and performance indic...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,633 Views
20 Pages

Energy Sector Risk and Cost of Capital Assessment—Companies and Investors Perspective

  • Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska,
  • Magdalena Mądra-Sawicka and
  • Anna Milewska

14 March 2021

This paper aims to identify the costs of capital in a group of companies from the energy sector by including an investor and market risk approach. The study also concerns the company’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) cost intra-industry analy...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,614 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2023

The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of Green Intellectual Capital practices on the competitive advantages of companies in Poland. The study included 150 Polish producing enterprises located across Poland. The first stage of the a...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,187 Views
18 Pages

In her study of ‘Surveillance Capitalism’, Shoshana Zuboff cites Google’s parent firm Alphabet’s legal customer-purchase agreement for the parent firm’s Nest thermostats. These impose ‘oppressive privacy and securi...

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