Vol. 8(12) December 2015
Co-operation, coordination and specific assets in
inter-organizational relationships in Hong Kong’s engineering firms
Yau Hon Keung, Man Siu Shing, Cheng Lai Fong Alison and Chan Siu Hon
The purpose of this study is to identify the correlations
between factors affecting the inter-organizational relationship. A survey was conducted
and the samples were collected from different engineering companies in Hong Kong.
175 respondents completed the questionnaire which included the engineering companies
with various demographic characteristics and different natures. The major findings
are that the antecedent variable “Trust” had positive correlations with both “Co-operation”
and “Coordination” but had negative correlation with “Specific Assets”. Secondary,
all of the focal constructs had positive correlation with the other antecedent variable
“Commitment”. After that, “Co-operation” and “Coordination” had positive relationships
with the last antecedent “Communication” while only “Specific Assets” has negative
relationship with “Communication”. The same situation is happening on the response
of the focal constructs towards the outcome variable “Satisfaction”. The managers
of organizations would need to make tough decisions of doing investments between
factors to balance the outcome effects resulting in gaining the maximum profits
within the relationship with partner organizations. In addition, by knowing the
correlations of the factors, it would be easier for the managers to make a better
co-operation mode with their partner organizations.
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A Study on Work Life Balance of Working Married Women
Employed in software industry with reference to Indore City
Joshi Ashima
Today work life balance of working married women in software
industry is one of the key concerns for the industries and management practitioners.
As in rejoinder to escalating organizational and societal needs person often ignores
the other important factor that is the personal life. Our profession nowadays has
become an integral part of our lives. Furthermore women now are performing a dual
role i.e. of a wage earner as well as a homemaker. This study is carried out to
find the existing level of work life balance as experienced by the working married
women employed in software industry at Indore city. The results of the study indicated
higher scores and hence better work life balance level among the studied group.
Further it can be concluded from the study that women working in the software industry
of all the age group and income group are equally good at balancing their work life.
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Corporate Governance and Firm’s Performance during
Subprime Crisis: Evidence from Indian firms
Singh Mohinder and Kumar Sanjeev
In the recent years the attention and interest in corporate
governance has increased especially with the collapses of economies both developed
as well as developing and series of corporate scandals. These collapses and scandals
raised doubts in the minds of investors about the credibility of regulators and
their competence to make efficient capital market. In India, corporate governance
gained movement after the capital markets frauds in early nineties and opening of
Indian Economy. During subprime crisis many corporations collapsed due to poor governance.
In this study an attempt has been made to examine the role of governance and capital
structure of Indian listed firms on their financial performance during subprime
crisis. Based on the annual reports of 121 BSE listed companies, the study observed
that recent financial crisis has affected the performance of Indian companies. Firms
with higher level of board activism perform better during crisis. Firms with higher
disclosure standards, effective audit committee and well protected rights of minority
shareholders have performed well during study period. The results also support the
resource dependency theory and found positive association between foreign ownership
holding and firm performance and supporting the view that greater exposure to the
external environment improves access to large resources at competitive costs and
thus positively affects firm’s performance. The perception that powerful board structure
has positive impact on firm’s performance has not been supported in this study.
Further, widely held firms have not performed well during study period as compared
to concentrated companies.
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