Recently added articles from Australian Journal of Management:
Anatomy of a credit crisis.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Almost two years after the first market signs of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and following my editorials in the last two issues of the Journal (Marks 2008a, 2008b), in this issue, as well as publishing a revised timeline of the GFC (see below), I think it is time to begin attempting ...
Fundamental indexation: an Australian investigation.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Abstract: Capitalisation-weighted indexes provide the basis for passive investment strategies designed to capture market performance. However, these cap-weighted indexes are claimed to be sub-optimal because of their tendency to overweight overvalued shares' and underweight ...
Revisiting the vexing question: does superior corporate social performance lead to improved financial Performance?(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Abstract: The empirical evidence documenting the association between a firm's level of corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) remains divided. This paper reinvestigates the CSP/CFP association using a more rigorous methodology whilst taking ...
Employee entitlements and secured creditors: assessing the effects of the maximum priority proposal.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Abstract: Corporate failures and consequent default on obligations have, in some circumstances, led to significant losses for employees with accumulated unpaid leave entitlements. The Australian government responded initially to this problem by implementing a government-funded ...
Fund size, transaction costs and performance: size matters!(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Abstract: Recent studies find evidence that small funds outperform large funds. This fund size effect is commonly hypothesized to be caused by transaction costs. Due to the lack of transactions data, prior studies have investigated the transaction costs theory indirectly. Our ...