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Do Powerful CEOs Have an Impact on Microfinance Performance?

2009

In this study we show that Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with more powerful CEOs have higher performance variability. A powerful CEO is defined as one that also chairs the board of directors. CEO power is reflected in higher performance variability if CEOs have more latitude of action, i.e. managerial discretion. Managerial discretion can be limited by having stakeholder electives on the board. We find that CEO power only has an effect on MFI performance variability when there are no stakeholder electives on the board. Furthermore, we argue that CEOs in non-profit MFIs have more discretion, because their dual mission implies their CEOs are harder to control. We find that CEO power increa…

Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance?

2012

Recently, microfinance has been coming under public and media attacks. The microcredit crisis following from microfinance-induced suicides in 2010 in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh indicates that weak corporate governance and imprudent risk taking have far-reaching consequences. Yet, analyses of corporate governance mechanisms among microfinance institutions (MFIs) remain underdeveloped. As a response, this study examines the impact of CEO power on MFI risk taking by deriving explicit predictions of this effect from a characterization of the microfinance industry. Based on a sample of 280 microfinance institutions, our results suggest that powerful CEOs of microfinance non-governmental …

Pieejas “Windows kā pakalpojums” izmantošana atjauninājumu instalēšanas automatizācijai organizācijas Windows operētājsistēmās

2020

Katru mēnesi tiek veikti operētājsistēmu uzlabojumi un izlaisti atjauninājumi. Tāpēc ir ļoti svarīgi nodrošināt, lai tehniskās ierīces būtu atjaunotas un tās saņemtu jaunākos drošības un funkcionalitātes labojumus, kas mazinātu operētājsistēmas darbības traucējumu rašanās risku. Darba mērķis ir veikt atjauninājumu instalēšanas automatizāciju organizācijas Windows operētājsistēmās izmantojot pieeju “Windows kā pakalpojums”. Darbā tika veikts vispārīgs pieejas “Windows kā pakalpojums” metožu apraksts un pielietotas pieejas metodes atjauninājumu automatizācijai, tādas kā Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) un Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM). Darba rezultātā ir veikta Windows …

Rôle des managers intermédiaires (middle-managers) dans la difficile mise en œuvre de la RSE - cas d'une PME engagée.

2022

Municipal budgetary framework and forecasting errors: The case of Moroccan municipalities

2017

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Influences on mutual fund performance: comparing US and Europe using qualitative comparative analysis

2019

This study examines the conditions that lead mutual funds to underperform or outperform competitors. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we draw upon extensive research on fund returns to affirm and extend earlier discoveries. Fund performance (Morningstar ratings), features of the funds themselves, and characteristics of the fund managers are considered. Positive Morningstar star and analyst ratings are necessary conditions for funds to generate value (measured by Jensen’s alpha). Funds with low management fees and low ongoing fees have attractive Sharpe ratios and high returns. Likewise, large funds with good Morningstar ratings have good Sharpe ratios and returns, o…

Como gerentes de nível médio contribuem para o processo de formação de estratégia: conexão entre processos estratégicos e práticas estratégicas

2010

The role of middle management is essential when managing integrative and emergent strategy formation processes. We stand out the importance of its role connecting micro and macro organizational level offering a very important contribution when examining the strategy-as-practice perspective and integrative strategy formation process. The main goal of this research is to analyse the relationship between the integrative strategy formation process and the roles of middle management under the strategy-as-practice perspective. To check it out we adopted a qualitative methodology droving a case analysis in a Spanish University. Data was collected by means of personal interviews with members of dif…

Conflicting personal goals: a risk to occupational well-being?

2015

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating role of goal conflict in the relationship between the contents of managers’ personal work goals and occupational well-being (burnout and work engagement). Eight goal categories (organization, competence, well-being, career-ending, progression, prestige, job change, and employment contract) described the contents of goals. Goal conflict reflected the degree to which a personal work goal was perceived to interfere with other life domains. Design/methodology/approach – The data were drawn from a study directed to Finnish managers in 2009 (n=806). General linear models were conducted to investigate the associations between go…

Company stakeholder responsibility : an empirical investigation of top managers’ attitudinal change

2017

Purpose Company stakeholder responsibility considers stakeholder engagement and management as key to long-term firm success. The purpose of this paper is to examine how top managers’ stakeholder responsibility attitudes change and how they balance stakeholder responsibilities and economic interests. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted empirical research using the company stakeholder responsibility framework by conducting a repeated cross-sectional survey in Finland in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014. Findings The study shows how development in the business context influences managers’ attitudes towards stakeholder responsibility. Simultaneously with the expansion of free comp…

The role of goal pursuit in the interaction between psychosocial work environment and occupational well-being

2010

Abstract The relation of the core components of the Effort–Reward Imbalance model (ERI; Siegrist, 1996 ) to goal pursuit was investigated. Goal pursuit was studied through categories of goal contents – competency, progression, well-being, job change, job security, organization, finance, or no work goal – based on the personal work goals of managers ( Hyvonen, Feldt, Salmela-Aro, Kinnunen, & Makikangas, 2009 ). The study focused on the contribution of the ERI components (effort, reward, effort–reward imbalance, OVC) to goal contents, as well as on the mediating and moderating effects of goal contents between the ERI components and occupational well-being (burnout, work engagement) among youn…