Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 9 Issue 1

Value creation in SME private equity buy-outs

Alexander D.F. Lahmann, Wiebke Stranz, Vivek K. Velamuri

The purpose of this paper is to analyze specific levers of value creation in small and mid-size private equity deals. Private equity firms add value through various types of value…

Working capital management and firm profitability: a meta-analysis

Harsh Pratap Singh, Satish Kumar, Sisira Colombage

The purpose of this study is to quantitatively aggregate the findings of prior literature on the effect of working capital management (WCM) on corporate profitability using the…

Shareholders and managers as principal-agent hierarchies and cooperative teams

Matthias Kiefer, Edward A.E. Jones, Andrew T. Adams

Shareholders and managers can work in a hierarchy in which principals attempt to control the actions of agents to achieve the wealth objective. Alternatively, shareholders and…

Macroeconomic environment of bull markets in Malaysia

Yoke Yue Kan

The aim of this paper is to investigate the circumstances and events surrounding bull runs in Malaysia from 1990 to 2015. The research question posed here is: What were the…