Browsing by Author "Houqe MN"
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- ItemBusiness strategy, cash holdings, and dividend payouts(John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand., 2023-12) Houqe MN; Monem RM; van Zijl TBusiness strategy's impact on firm cash holdings and dividend payouts has largely remained unexplored. We identify a fundamental and direct link between a firm's business strategy and its cash holdings and dividend payouts. Analysing two large samples of data on US firms over the period 1992–2017, we find strong evidence that prospectors (defenders) are likely to hold more (less) cash and pay less (more) dividends than other firms. Further analysis suggests that prospectors pay dividends less frequently than do defenders. The results are robust to a battery of robustness checks and additional analysis. Overall, the results suggest that identifying a firm's business strategy significantly helps to understand a firm's cash holdings and dividend payout decisions.
- ItemImpact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms(ERP Environment and John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2024-05-06) Houqe MN; Abdelfattah T; Zahir-Ul-Hassan MK; Ullah SThis study examines the nexus between business strategy and carbon emissions by utilising a dataset of U.S. firms from 2007 to 2020. It focuses on two broad types of firms, that is, prospectors and defenders. Regarding carbon emissions, we consider total emissions (Scope 1 & 2), direct emissions (Scope 1) and indirect emissions (Scope 2). The results reveal a significant association between business strategy and total carbon emissions as well as direct carbon emissions. Notably, the results suggest that prospectors, compared to defenders, display higher levels of total and direct carbon emissions. Our findings contribute to the debate on whether prospectors in developed countries mismanage sustainability issues. The study offers valuable insights into the interplay between business strategy and carbon emissions and provides empirical evidence that business strategy is an important determinant of total and direct carbon emissions.
- ItemThe Effects of Carbon Emissions and Agency Costs on Firm Performance(MDPI AG, 2022-03-28) Houqe MN; Opare S; Zahir-Ul-Hassan MK; Ahmed KCarbon emissions and agency costs can have an impact on firms’ financial performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the combined and gradual effects of these two factors on firms’ performance. We explore the separate and combined effects of carbon emissions and agency costs on firms’ financial performance by utilizing data from 2323 US firms that disclosed their environmental information to CDP from 2007 to 2016. The results indicate that firms with higher carbon emissions experience lower performance as the market reacts negatively. Further, firms with both higher carbon emissions and higher agency costs have lower performance. We also investigated year-on-year change in firm performance and found that, keeping agency costs constant, a change in carbon emissions leads to lower performance. Overall, the findings suggest that when the market responds negatively to firms’ environmental decisions, high agency costs exacerbate the adverse effect of high carbon emissions on firm performance.