How Challenge Demands Have Offsetting Effects on Job Performance: Through the Positive and Negative Emotions

By combining the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) and the transactional theory of stress (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984), this study examines how challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have dual effects on employees’ job performance through the mediating effects of positive and negative emotions. We collected data from 414 employees from three firms located in China, including two hi-tech firms and one financial firm. The results indicated that challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have an overall positive effect on employees’ job performance (i.e., task performance and contextual performance) by offsetting positive indirect effects with negative indirect effects. The theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

The influencing power of apply and explain on capital structure

The paper investigated the suspension of Independent Non-Executive Directors (INEDs) stock options on corporate capital choices: Equity, retained earnings, long term borrowing and short term borrowing. The paper used a sample of 1250 non-financial Firm years from 2010 to 2019. The Ordinary Least Squares and the difference in difference method discovered that the firms' Leverage increased positively after the reform. In particular, the suspension of stock options impacts the high levels of long term borrowing in the "Apply and Explain" periods. The study submits that the suspension of stock options maximizes the independence of the INED on the executive Board and Subcommittees (Audit and Remuneration) to reduce the use of retained earnings and promotes the use of Long term debts in financing projects.

Measuring the systemic importance of large US banks

The failure of large and connected financial institutions often leads to system-wide financial crises and economic downturns (Labonte 2015). Even absent outright failure and bankruptcy, perceived weakness of a large and connected financial firm can result in decrease valuation of other firms – due to perceived linkages – and overall decrease in market liquidity.

The Influence of Ownership on Capital Structure Of Companies Listed In Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX)

The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of foreign, institutional, and family ownership on capital structure. The two control variables include company size and profitability, while the secondary data were obtained from the financial firm, and 2014-2018 annual report. Sampling technique by using total sampling method. A total of 197 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) were sampled. Data analysis by used descriptive analysis, classic assumption test and pane data regression. The results showed that foreign, institutional, and family ownerships have no significant effect on capital structure. However, firm size and profitability have positive and negative significant effects on capital structure, respectively.

Impact of CEO, Director and Executive compensation on the Firm Performance with Moderating Effect Research & Development

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the CEO, Director and executives’ compensation on firm performance. Moreover research and development as moderator check the relation of R&D over firm performance and CEO, directors, executives’ compensation in an emerging Pakistan market. This research uses the GSEM approach for the problem of abnormality and homoscedastic arise the sample data collected from PSE 100 index non-financial list over the era of 2014-2019.The data collection sample from 75 non-financial firm and final sample consisted on 69 firm 6 organization exclude due to unavailability of data. This study provide the evidence that CEOs, Director, executives’ compensation have a significant relation with firm performance while, R&D show that insignificant relation with CEO/directors and Executives compensation perhaps R&D show significant relation with firm performance. This research contributed the firm with their better remuneration to the executive; CEO and director have better financial performance. Meanwhile research and development also play pivotal role toward firm performance due to their innovative idea and technique. In future other Asian countries included in the sample set like India and also some variable like CSR, Firm age, top executive education and tenure for showing the better significant results.

Value Investment Strategies and Asset Pricing: A Case of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) measures only a linear relationship between the Risk and the Return. However, market dynamics and anomalies calls for understanding the relationship in between risk and return from non-linear perspective. Thus, current study explores an opportunity to study asset value anomalies by Constructing Decile Portfolio for the period starting from 2001 to 2018 with 900 firms listed. GMM (Generalized method of moment and Wald test are applied to see the robustness of results. For further analysis, Risk Adjusted CAPM, Fama French 3 Factor (FF3) and 5 Factor (FF5) are applied. Empirical results indicate that value effect and debt to equity ratio are essential factors and genuinely explain what CAPM fails to explain. The findings from the study recommend that investing in High value and high leverage firm will generate abnormal returns to investors. Taking long position in high value firm and short position in low value firms and same with debt to equity anomaly. The results will help financial analyst develop investment strategies for well diversified and efficient portfolios. These results can also be helpful to financial firm and security analyst in the financial market where they can take appropriate capital budget decisions while investing.

Has the Propensity to Pay Dividends Declined? Evidence from the US Banking Sector

This article examines the propensity to pay dividends in the U.S banking sector during 1973–2014. Although the propensity to pay dividends has been declining over the 52 years of our sample period, banks are consistently more likely to pay dividends than non-financial firms. Using the coefficients from logit models estimated early in the sample period to forecast the percentage of dividend payers in each subsequent year, we conclude that there has been a decline in the likelihood of paying dividends in the banking sector. However, the decline started from a very high level as compared to that of the non-banking sectors. In addition, the variables taken from the non-financial firm literature do not explain the difference between the actual and expected percentage of dividend payers in the banking sector. We also conduct exploratory analyses with bank-specific variables. Although newly included variables are significantly related to the likelihood of paying dividends, they do not explain the declining propensity to pay dividends in the banking sector.

Blending in: A Case Study of Transitional Ambidexterity in the Financial Sector

Organizational ambidexterity is widely recognized as necessary for the economic sustainability of firms operating in the financial sector. While the management literature has recognized several forms of ambidexterity, the relationship between them and their relative merits remain unclear. By studying a process of implementation of ambidextrous capabilities within a large Scandinavian financial firm, we explore the role of top-down reforms and bottom-up reactions in determining the development of sector-specific innovative capabilities. We find that blended ambidexterity follows naturally from the attempt to correct the tensions arising from harmonic ambidextrous blueprints. The resulting blended practice appears to be closely related to the reciprocal model of ambidexterity, which appears to be a necessity rather than a choice, for large firms attempting to develop innovative capabilities. Consequently, we suggest to re-interpret current taxonomies of ambidexterity not as alternative blueprints, but rather as stages in a long-term process of transition.