Ownership Structure and Branding Strategies

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Bakkour ◽  
Fatiha Fort ◽  
Anne Mione
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

The brand is the most important asset for enterprises. In a competitive marketplace, brand is considered the best way to differentiate products, to build corporate image and to develop bargaining power with retailers. Branding strategies are therefore a key aspect of corporate decision making. In this paper, the authors analyse the relationship between the ownership structure of agri-food SMEs and branding strategies. A conceptual model of how these variables are related is proposed and empirically tested using data from two surveys (2003 and 2010) of a representative sample of agri-food SMEs in the Languedoc–Roussillon region (South of France). The results show that ownership structure influences branding strategies in SMEs. This finding might be considered a challenge to the relevance of applying agency theory to a very particular form of enterprise and sector of activity.

Influence of Confucian culture on entrepreneurial decision making using data from China's floating population

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ran Xiong ◽  
Ping Wei
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Confucian Culture ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Decision ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Confucian culture has had a deep-rooted influence on Chinese thinking and behavior for more than 2,000 years. With a manually created Confucian culture database and the 2017 China floating population survey, we used empirical analysis to test the relationship between Confucian culture and individual entrepreneurial choice using data obtained from China's floating population. After using the presence and number of Confucian schools and temples, and of chaste women as instrumental variables to counteract problems of endogeneity, we found that Confucian culture had a significant role in promoting individuals' entrepreneurial decision making among China's floating population. The results showed that, compared with those from areas of China not strongly influenced by Confucian culture, individuals from areas that are strongly influenced by Confucian culture were more likely to choose entrepreneurship as their occupation choice. Our findings reveal cultural factors that affect individual entrepreneurial behavior, and also illustrate the positive role of Confucianism as a representative of the typical cultures of the Chinese nation in the 21st century.

Political beliefs, views about technocracy, and energy and climate policy preferences

2020 ◽  
pp. 096366252097856
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Nowlin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Energy And Climate Policy

The use of technocratic decision-making, where policy decisions are made by elite experts, is an important aspect of policymaking in the United States. However, little work has examined public opinion about technocracy. Using data from a representative sample of the United States ( n = 1200), I explore differences in support for technocracy and the implications of that support for views about politically controversial energy sources and climate policies. Overall, I find that liberal Democrats, moderate/conservative Democrats, and moderate/liberal Republicans were more likely than conservative Republicans and moderate independents to support technocratic decision-making. In addition, I find that as support for technocracy increases, so does support for energy sources and climate policies; however, there are significant interaction effects across political beliefs.

scholarly journals Ownership Structure and Financial Sustainability with Moderating Effect of Managerial Intention in Some Selected Emerging Economies. A Conceptual Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. p78
Author(s):  
Maimako Livinus Nkuri ◽  
Ahmed Razman Abdul Latiff ◽  
Wan Fadzila Wan Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore a model to measure the money deposit bank financial sustainability based on ownership structure and to examine the moderating role of managerial intention on managerial ownership and foreign ownership. Design/ Methodology/ Approach An elaborate literature review was conducted to identify the variables and a proposed conceptual model was conceived. Findings A conceptual model was presented after the discussion of relationship and literature review that examined ownership structure, managerial intention and financial sustainability. Originality/Value Many scholars have investigated the different dimensions of ownership structure, managerial intention and performance, however little research has been done on the integration of ownership structure and financial sustainability. Furthermore, there is also a dearth in literature that examine the moderating role of managerial intention on the relationship between ownership structure and financial sustainability.

scholarly journals El cargo y descargo como procedimiento jurídico-contable neutralizador de los desequilibrios derivados de las relaciones de agencia

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-232
Author(s):  
Susana Villaluenga de Gracia ◽  
Inmaculada Llibrer Escrig
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Discharge System ◽  
Agency Relationship ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

El método contable de cargo y descargo, un procedimiento de naturaleza más jurídica que contable, se empleaba cuando la actividad económica de la organización era confiada a un agente, circunstancia que facilita su análisis desde la Teoría de la Agencia. Tradicionalmente ha estado ligado a la toma de decisiones y al control del agente, sobre lo que existe una amplia bibliografía. Sin embargo, hasta ahora no se ha considerado como un instrumento que anula el conflicto de intereses contrapuestos surgidos en la relación entre principal y agente en una gestión delegada.El análisis de los documentos de cargo y descargo, contenido en estudios previos que tienen como base las fuentes documentales manuscritas y en los que se ha estudiado la relación entre principal y agente desde la perspectiva histórico-contable, ha permitido identificar todos los elementos característicos de la relación de agencia, inferir los intereses de principal y agentes, deducir los incentivos empleados por el principal para alinear el comportamiento de los agentes y concluir que este modo de registro era capaz de neutralizar los desequilibrios de intereses y la información asimétrica entre ambos. This paper examines some accounting and legal aspects of the charge and discharge system and the relationship between it and the Agency Theory. This type of accounting was used when the economic activity was entrusted to an agent; it suggests that the Agency Theory is an excellent framework to analyze the accounts. Traditionally the Charge and Discharge has been linked to the decision making and control of the agent's management, on which there is a wide bibliography, however, until now, it has not been considered as an instrument to cancel conflicts that arisen in the relationship between principal and agent and getting the equilibrium of the relationship between them.We analyzed the documents and that allowed us to show different aspects as identify all characteristic elements of the agency relationship, infer the interests of principal and agents, deduct the incentives used by the principal to align the behavior of the agents and conclude that this mode of registration was able to neutralize the imbalances of interests and the asymmetric information between both.

Leverage and Family Firms

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Sergio Camisón-Haba ◽  
José Antonio Clemente ◽  
Beatriz Forés ◽  
Melanie Grueso-Gala
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This chapter analyses the relationship between ownership structure and leverage, providing an integrated theoretical approach that combines traditional financial theories, agency theory, and recently developed theories relating to non-financial preferences. The results show that, after controlling for endogeneity, being a family firm has a positive effect on the propensity to incur debt. These findings add to the existing body of literature and underline the need for a multi-theoretical approach when explaining the capital structure of family firms. The authors apply panel data methodology to control for individual heterogeneity of family firms. The chapter uses a sample of Spanish firms operating in the tourism industry.

Spotlight

2021 ◽  
pp. 206-207
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Internal Review ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Internal Review Board

The HUMAN Project was initiated in 2014 by the Kavli Foundation in partnership with New York University’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making. 1 Its goal was to collect vast amounts of data from a representative sample of 10,000 New York City residents in 4,000 households over 20 years. Lacking both internal review board approval and sustainable funding, the HUMAN Project was suspended in 2018. Nonetheless, the ambitious scope of the study and what it revealed about the possibilities for collecting and using data in the digital age are intriguing. It is possible that this type of model could eventually be revived, perhaps with additional privacy protections built in....

A predictive analytics of physicians prescription and pharmacies sales correlation using data mining

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-363
Author(s):  
Babak Sohrabi ◽  
Iman Raeesi Vanani ◽  
Nastaran Nikaein ◽  
Saeideh Kakavand
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Sales Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose In the pharmaceutical industry, marketing and sales managers often deal with massive amounts of marketing and sales data. One of their biggest concerns is to recognize the impact of actions taken on sold-out products. Data mining discovers and extracts useful patterns from such large data sets to find hidden and worthy patterns for the decision-making. This paper, too, aims to demonstrate the ability of data-mining process in improving the decision-making quality in the pharmaceutical industry. Design/methodology/approach This research is descriptive in terms of the method applied, as well as the investigation of the existing situation and the use of real data and their description. In fact, the study is quantitative and descriptive, from the point of view of its data type and method. This research is also applicable in terms of purpose. The target population of this research is the data of a pharmaceutical company in Iran. Here, the cross-industry standard process for data mining methodology was used for data mining and data modeling. Findings With the help of different data-mining techniques, the authors could examine the effect of the visit of doctors overlooking the pharmacies and the target was set for medical representatives on the pharmaceutical sales. For that matter, the authors used two types of classification rules: decision tree and neural network. After the modeling of algorithms, it was determined that the two aforementioned rules can perform the classification with high precision. The results of the tree ID3 were analyzed to identify the variables and path of this relationship. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to provide the real-world direct empirical evidence of “Analytics of Physicians Prescription and Pharmacies Sales Correlation Using Data Mining.” The results showed that the most influential variables of “the relationship between doctors and their visits to pharmacies,” “the length of customer relationship” and “the relationship between the sale of pharmacies and the target set for medical representatives” were “deviation from the implementation plan.” Therefore, marketing and sales managers must pay special attention to these factors while planning and targeting for representatives. The authors could focus only on a small part of this study.

scholarly journals Leverage, Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Karachi Stock Exchange

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Adnan Ali ◽  
Attaullah Shah ◽  
Farzand Ali Jan
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the ownership structure and firm performance. The study uses two performance measures i.e. market-based performance measure (Tobin’s Q) and accounting-based performance measure (return on assets (ROA)) as dependent variables and ownership proxies and other control variables as independent variables whereas leverage is used as moderating variable. The ownership proxies include the managerial ownership and institutional ownership while the control variables include the size of the firm, the coefficient of variation, and growth. This study has used simple regression analysis while using data of 355 firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) for the years 2003 to 2008. The results show that the ownership structure has significant relationship with the market-based performance measure, while it has insignificant relationship with the accounting-based performance measure. Moreover, the leverage has no moderating effect on the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance

Leverage and Family Firms

2022 ◽  
pp. 324-341
Author(s):  
Sergio Camisón-Haba ◽  
José Antonio Clemente ◽  
Beatriz Forés ◽  
Melanie Grueso-Gala
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This chapter analyses the relationship between ownership structure and leverage, providing an integrated theoretical approach that combines traditional financial theories, agency theory, and recently developed theories relating to non-financial preferences. The results show that, after controlling for endogeneity, being a family firm has a positive effect on the propensity to incur debt. These findings add to the existing body of literature and underline the need for a multi-theoretical approach when explaining the capital structure of family firms. The authors apply panel data methodology to control for individual heterogeneity of family firms. The chapter uses a sample of Spanish firms operating in the tourism industry.

How and Why Does Franchise Ownership Affect Human Resource Practices? Evidence from the US Hotel Industry

ILR Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 001979392097266
Author(s):  
Tashlin Lakhani
Keyword(s):  
Agency Theory ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
The Us ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hotel Chain ◽  
Limited Service

This study investigates the relationship between ownership form and human resource (HR) practices in a franchise system. Using data from a unique establishment-level survey of a US-based limited service hotel chain, the author examines how HR practices vary between franchisee- and company-owned hotels, and among franchisees with diverse ownership structures. Consistent with agency theory predictions of franchisee profit motives and free-riding behavior, franchisee-owned hotels are associated with lower investments in HR practices compared to company-owned hotels. The results of this study suggest that ownership structures influence HR investments.

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