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  • Open Access
24 Citations
15,216 Views
29 Pages

Market Risk and Financial Performance of Non-Financial Companies Listed on the Moroccan Stock Exchange

  • Diby François Kassi,
  • Dilesha Nawadali Rathnayake,
  • Pierre Axel Louembe and
  • Ning Ding

21 February 2019

This study examines the effect of market risk on the financial performance of 31 non-financial companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE) over the period 2000–2016. We utilized three alternative variables to assess financial perfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,226 Views
30 Pages

27 January 2023

The objective of this article is to discover whether a company’s ESG management consistently has a positive impact on various corporate performance, such as financial, market and export performance. An empirical analysis employing a fixed effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
12,253 Views
18 Pages

Women on Boards and Financial Performance: Evidence from a European Emerging Market

  • Mihaela Ionascu,
  • Ion Ionascu,
  • Marian Sacarin and
  • Mihaela Minu

19 May 2018

This paper examines the association between gender diversity on corporate boards and firm performance for a European emerging market, which lags behind in terms of both corporate governance quality and social cohesion indicators. In a sample of Roman...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,662 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2020

The primary purpose of this article was to examine the mediating effects of market orientation on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and financial performance. The mediation effects of market orientation on the relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2026

This study explores the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in explaining the financial performance of firms listed on the Lima Stock Exchange during 2022–2023, using 242 firm year observations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,380 Views
12 Pages

This study analyzes the effects that certain political-uncertainty factors have on financial firm performance in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). The results of a panel regression performed on a database of 7976 firm-years over 18-year unbalance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,326 Views
21 Pages

The issue of key determinants affecting the financial performance of advertising and marketing companies in Central and Eastern Europe remains understudied, despite the industry’s rapid growth and regional specifics. This study investigates fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,639 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2023

The development of halal tourism in Indonesia is the focus of the Indonesian government and MSMEs have an important role in supporting the development of halal tourism in Indonesia. This study aims to examine the relationship between marketing commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,979 Views
30 Pages

24 June 2025

The relationship between firm size and the financial performance of advertising and marketing companies remains understudied in the academic literature, including in the regional context. Using a panel data methodology, this study analyzes the impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,049 Views
16 Pages

23 December 2024

This study aims to examine the impact of marketing artificial intelligence (AI) and the specific channels it uses to influence the performance of Jordanian SMEs. In contrast to prior research that focused solely on the direct effects of marketing AI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,878 Views
24 Pages

This study examines the interplay between leverage, dividend policy, and market performance in Nigeria’s manufacturing sector during the economic downturn of 2016–2020. Drawing on signaling and trade-off theories, we investigate how firms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,974 Views
20 Pages

Government Support and Market Proximity: Exploring Their Relationship with Supply Chain Agility and Financial performance

  • Liliana Avelar-Sosa,
  • Jorge L. García-Alcaraz,
  • José M. Mejía-Muñoz,
  • Aidé A. Maldonado-Macías and
  • Giner Alor Hernández

12 July 2018

The current paper presents a structural equation model with four variables (Government, Infrastructure, Proximity to market, and supply chain Agility) affecting the Financial performance of a company. Six hypotheses or relationships among variables a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,107 Views
19 Pages

This paper explores the importance of central banking policies in financial market performance, using the case of India. For this purpose, the paper comparatively analyzes the performance of financial markets during the regimes of last three governor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,411 Views
17 Pages

Despite the globalisation of European soccer, each professional league exhibits specificities. French Ligue 1 sometimes contends with the trading-off of financial performance against sporting performance of its teams in European soccer competitions,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,188 Views
18 Pages

The Financial Results of Energy Sector Companies in Europe and Their Involvement in Hydrogen Production

  • Andrzej Chmiela,
  • Adrian Gawęda,
  • Beata Barszczowska,
  • Natalia Howaniec,
  • Adrian Pysz and
  • Adam Smoliński

27 June 2025

In response to growing environmental concerns, hydrogen production has emerged as a critical element in the transition to a sustainable global economy. We evaluate the impact of hydrogen production on both the financial performance and market value o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
234 Views
25 Pages

6 January 2026

This paper investigates the factors of sustainability of the financial performance of Islamic insurance (Takaful) windows in Pakistan. A large body of literature has examined Takaful providers across many countries; however, there is little research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,297 Views
17 Pages

Assessing the Performance and Risk-Adjusted Returns of Financial Mutual Funds

  • Davinder K. Malhotra,
  • Tim Mooney,
  • Raymond Poteau and
  • Philip Russel

In this study, we provide a comprehensive examination of the performance of financial (specialty sector financial) mutual funds over a 23-year period, a much longer time frame than what has been analyzed in previous literature. To fully understand th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,335 Views
11 Pages

Economic development must consider the evolution of the banking system in general, and the evolution of individual banks on capital markets in particular. As these financial institutions are catalysts for national economies and economic development,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,579 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2023

The traditional market holds a pivotal role in Indonesia’s economy because it is the main contributor to national retail grocery transactions. Nevertheless, competition with modern markets and retailers makes their competitiveness lessened. Fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,650 Views
16 Pages

Due to the development of financial markets, products, financial and mathematical models, portfolio selection today represents a comprehensive set of activities. Investors take into consideration many different factors, such as the market factors, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,389 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Institutional Support on Export Performance

  • Mário Nuno Mata,
  • Mohammad Falahat,
  • Anabela Batista Correia and
  • João Xavier Rita

This paper examines institutional support (financial and marketing support) on export-oriented firms’ performance or so-called born globals. We develop a model to address how financial and marketing support can help young entrepreneurial firms to ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,064 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2022

Many nonfinancial firms in China invest increasingly in financial assets. To understand the driving factors behind this phenomenon, this paper examines the effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on corporate financializatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
24,771 Views
31 Pages

15 October 2020

The purpose of this research study is to examine and explain whether there is a positive or negative linear relationship between sustainability reporting, inadequate management of economic, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and corporate performa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,757 Views
19 Pages

Engaging in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) activities entails costs that influence a firm’s financial and market performance. However, it is expected that the long-term benefits of ESG engagement outweigh these costs, leading to su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,776 Views
22 Pages

9 September 2022

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance may be one of the strategies firms adopt to enhance their financial flexibility in response to an increasingly uncertain environment and difficult sustainability conditions. We use A-share liste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,939 Views
25 Pages

Green Governance: How ESG Initiatives Drive Financial Performance in UK Firms?

  • Ahmed Saber Moussa,
  • Mahmoud Elmarzouky and
  • Doaa Shohaieb

12 December 2024

In this research endeavor, we investigate the potential influence exerted by ESG performance on the market capitalization of non-financial corporations included within the UK FTSE All-Share Index during the eleven-year period spanning 2010 to 2021. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
18,146 Views
23 Pages

28 November 2020

In this study, we examine the extent to which the implementation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures influence the firm value and financial performance of airlines. The panel data analysis is applied to the set of collected dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,372 Views
37 Pages

23 June 2025

In the evolving landscape of China’s capital markets, the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations has become increasingly crucial for investors and decision-makers. Traditional financial performance metrics oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,096 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2020

Every year online sales represent a higher percentage of the sales total in nearly all sectors of the economy, and the art markets are no exception. However, there are few empirical studies showing how online sales and digital technologies are transf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,846 Views
24 Pages

2 October 2019

This research analyses the influence of internal capabilities, identified as strategic by the literature, on the performance and innovation of Spanish construction companies during a recessionary period. Based on this, we studied whether innovative,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,684 Views
27 Pages

Effect of Stakeholders-Oriented Behavior on the Performance of Sustainable Business

  • Carlos Ferro-Soto,
  • Luz Amparo Macías-Quintana and
  • Paula Vázquez-Rodríguez

11 December 2018

This study focuses on stakeholder-oriented behavior, throughout organizational culture and organizational behavior, and its effects on the performance of sustainable organizations managed according to Corporative Social Responsibility (CSR) criteria....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,685 Views
17 Pages

An increasing number of manufacturing enterprises are adopting environmental technologies to cope with the increasingly severe environmental regulatory pressure, but the existing studies about the impact of environmental technologies on economic perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,300 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2024

China’s “carbon peak and neutrality” policy has thrust the convergence of corporate ecological conservation and economic progress to the forefront of sustainable development. This study, aiming to tackle the “sustainability ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,697 Views
19 Pages

The aim of this article is to investigate the explanatory variables of the number of Facebook fans and Twitter followers for professional sports clubs based on the financial value literature. Such explanatory variables are related to local market con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,142 Views
19 Pages

Maximising financial performance while maintaining adequate liquidity is a crucial and ongoing challenge for bank management, particularly in emerging markets. This study focuses on the relationship between capital structure and financial performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,959 Views
15 Pages

Opportunities and Challenges of Companies from the Romanian E-Commerce Market for Sustainable Competitiveness

  • Camelia-Daniela Hategan,
  • Ruxandra-Ioana Pitorac,
  • Vasile-Petru Hategan and
  • Carmen Mihaela Imbrescu

2 December 2021

Consumer behavior differs from country to country, which may implicitly influence the financial performance of e-commerce companies. The paper’s objective is to study the characteristics of the companies from the Romanian e-commerce market for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,915 Views
13 Pages

Eco-Efficiency and Stock Market Volatility: Emerging Markets Analysis

  • Alicia Fernanda Galindo-Manrique,
  • Esteban Pérez-Calderón and
  • Martha del Pilar Rodríguez-García

Climate change, the accelerated industrialization of emerging countries, as well as the growing demand for transparency from stakeholders, are all factors that influence the environmental performance of companies. Thus, eco-efficient behavior can imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,855 Views
23 Pages

18 January 2022

In this paper, we use the multi-stage network slacks-based measure model under uncertainty to evaluate the performance of Taiwanese financial holding companies (FHCs) from 2007 to 2012. We conceptualize the value creation process to be a two-stage fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,742 Views
18 Pages

Given that the ultimate goal of business is performance enhancement, this study approaches the phenomenon by drawing on resource-advantage (R-A) theory to conceptualize a model with the aim of investigating the links among composite operant resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,725 Views
19 Pages

Soft HRM Practices Fostering Service Innovations and Performance in Hospitality Firms

  • Hung-Tai Tsou,
  • Ja-Shen Chen,
  • Thi Oanh Mai and
  • Nguyen B. Ngoc Jade

23 January 2025

This study explores the connections between soft HRM practices and organizational performance through the lenses of incremental service innovation (ISI) and radical service innovation (RSI). Data were collected via an online survey involving 225 hosp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,545 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2023

Service and product innovation have been emphasized as being essential to the success of ICT firms in numerous studies. Being ongoing processes, R&D activities make it challenging to forecast the benefits to a business. Does the company obtain im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,767 Views
19 Pages

Bridging the ESG Data Gap: Transparent Metrics and Rankings for Emerging Financial Markets

  • Azhar Rim Qachach,
  • Badr El Mahrad,
  • Omar Kharbouch,
  • Aniss Moumen,
  • Sara El Aoufi,
  • Manal El Gueddari and
  • Soukaina Abdallah-Ou-Moussa

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a pivotal driver of firm valuation, investment flows, and capital market stability and a critical dimension of corporate sustainability and investor decision-making. Yet, emerging mar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,473 Views
26 Pages

14 April 2023

Fake news on social media has engulfed the world of politics in recent years and is now posing the same threat in other areas, such as corporate social responsibility communications. This study examines this phenomenon in the context of firms’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,312 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2022

M&As have been regarded significantly as an alternative entry mode in facilitating firms’ internalization strategy. Limited studies uncover the integrative role of M&As on the firms’ financial performance from various market persp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,109 Views
15 Pages

Thailand Sustainability Investment Performance on Thailand’s Stock Market and Financial Assets

  • Pitipat Nittayakamolphun,
  • Wiwatwong Bunnun,
  • Nathaporn Phong-a-ran,
  • Raweepan Uttarin and
  • Panjamapon Pholkerd

Extreme weather events are the primary driver of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) responsible investment or sustainable stocks, which are gaining popularity worldwide, including in Thailand. Nevertheless, the function of sustainable stocks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,054 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2021

Oil price forecasts are of crucial importance for many policy institutions, including the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Board, but projecting oil market evolutions remains a complicated task, further exacerbated by the financializatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,997 Views
16 Pages

This study tests possible sources of long-term risk-adjusted returns on initial public offerings (IPO) in Poland under the calendar-time portfolio (CTP) approach. The moment of going public still remains a puzzle in many areas. Poland’s status...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
64,987 Views
21 Pages

Impact of E-Commerce and Digital Marketing Adoption on the Financial and Sustainability Performance of MSMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study

  • Jianli Gao,
  • Abu Bakkar Siddik,
  • Sayyed Khawar Abbas,
  • Muhammad Hamayun,
  • Mohammad Masukujjaman and
  • Syed Shah Alam

13 January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has remarkably affected the business processes and performance of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across the world. MSMEs have had to adopt and implement numerous strategies to sustain their businesses, and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,904 Views
26 Pages

This study explores the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on profitability and market capitalization within the European automotive industry. Since the industry is confronted with environmental and regulatory challenges, E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,265 Views
16 Pages

This article provides an empirical analysis aimed at evaluating the financial trends and disparities at the sector level within the Balkan and Eastern European region. The dataset encompasses a period of nine years and comprises more than 20 million...

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