“Why Industrial Textile to Right Choice for Investment” (Analisis Laporan Keuangan PT. Eratex Djaja dan PT. Polychem Indonesia Tahun 2013-2017)

Investors need analytical assistance to invest and related to what capital will be invested in the industry and what benefits will be obtained. Therefore, industry analysis can help investors make choices. One good industry choice for investing is the textile industry, because the needs of textile goods are everyone's basic needs for making clothes and other items such as dolls, blankets, bags and wallets. This makes the textile industry needs to be a consideration for investing. The development of the textile industry in Indonesia is growing rapidly, because there are currently 43 companies engaged in the textile sector that have gone public. This shows that the textile industry is very good for investment analysis. The analysis uses industry financial data for five years, from 2013 to 2017.

New Switched-Dual-Source Multilevel Inverter for Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Operation

The past two decades has seen a growing demand for high-power, high-voltage utility scale inverters mostly fueled by the integration of large solar PV and wind farms. Multilevel inverters have emerged as the industry choice for these megawatt range inverters because their reduced voltage stress, capable of generating an almost sinusoidal voltage, in-built redundancy, among others. This paper present a new Switched-Source Multilevel Inverter (SS MLI) architecture. The new inverter show superior over existing topologies. It has reduced voltage stress on the semiconductor, uses less number of switches –reduced size/weight/cost and increased efficiency. The new SSMLI is comprised of two voltage sources (V1, V2) and 6 switches. It is capable of generating 5-level output voltage in symmetric modes (i.e., V1 = V2), and 7-level output voltage in asymmetric modes (i.e., V1 ≠ V2). To demonstrate the validity of the proposed inverter, simulations results using MATLAB® /Simulink® for 5- and 7-level output voltages are presented . The simulations are also verified experimentally using a laboratory prototype.

Boards of directors and firms’ environmental proactivity

The present paper advances knowledge on the antecedents of firms’ environmental proactivity, assessing the explanatory power of corporate governance issues. In particular, our aim is to explore the relationship between board structure and firms’ proactive environmental strategies, within the agency theory and resource dependence theory frameworks, in order to outline if particular types of board members could represent a stimulating driver for firms’ environmental proactivity. The theoretical analysis is completed by an empirical investigation, performed by two linear regression models, on a sample of European firms, belonging to different polluting industries that were included in the Carbon Disclosure Project questionnaire 2014. The industry choice is related to the increasing pressure for better environmental performance that polluting industries are nowadays experiencing because of stakeholders and legislation requests. The results show that board structure and composition matters in firms’ environmental proactivity and have implications for managers, shareholders, and regulators who are interested in influencing firms’ environmental proactivity.