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A comparative analysis of multivariate approaches for data analysis in management sciences

Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Dalia Streimikiene, Justas Streimikis, Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene

The researchers use the SEM-based multivariate approach to analyze the data in different fields, including management sciences and economics. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) are powerful data analysis techniques. This paper aims to compare both models, their efficiencies and deficiencies, methodologies, procedures, and how to employ the models. The outcomes of this paper exhibited that the PLS-SEM is a…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-001 more

Determinants of the impact of ESG policy and corporate governance on employee rights

Chiao-Ming Li, Joe-Ming Lee

To comply with international development trends in recent years, Taiwanese government agencies have formulated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) legal policies and strengthened publicity for listed firms to prepare sustainability reports. Government agencies are trying to use ESG legal policies to gradually guide firms to take environmental, social, and governance measures and move toward sustainable operations. However, employee rights were easier for firms to ignore in the past, so…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-007 more

DuPont analysis among European dentistry companies to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Tomas Heryan, Karin Gajdova

Although health economics belongs to the highly respected economic disciplines within the research literature, there is a considerable gap related to the investigation of dentistry in particular, even after the global pandemic of COVID-19 disease. Fundamentally, the DuPont framework is a well-known complex analysis to evaluate companies from the point of view of financial performance. The investigation of the return on equity as a relation between the return on assets and the equity multiplier,…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-010 more

The impact of environmental, social and governance policies on companies’ financial and economic performance: A comprehensive approach and new empirical evidence

Gratiela Georgiana Noja, Bianca Raluca Baditoiu, Alexandru Buglea, Valentin Partenie Munteanu, Diana Corina Gligor Cimpoieru

In the last decade, the use of integrated reports (IR) comprising information on non-financial indicators from the environment, social, and governance (ESG) category has increased in time. Companies are now focusing not only on financial reporting but are notably including non-financial issues in their public reports. In doing so, they seek to align activities with the expectations of their stakeholders and the society in which they operate, as well as with various regulations, which are…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-008 more

Optimization of inventory cost control for SMEs in supply chain transformation: A case study and discussion

Xiaosong Zheng, Yilin Chen

With the continuous transformation of supply chains in various industries in China, the strategic landscape, industrial structure, industry rules, business models, and management logic have all changed dramatically, and the consumer market has become more demanding regarding pre-sales quality and after-sales service. Primarily for distribution companies whose primary business model is “buy and sell products and earn a profit margin,” the supply chain transformation has placed higher demands on…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-002 more