The debate around primary determinants influencing Reverse Knowledge Transfer has yet to attain academic consensus. This paper draws an overall picture of Reverse Knowledge Transfer from subsidiaries to parent firms, particularly in the context of an energetic emerging market, by incorporating all the different facets of the phenomenon. The research is based on a sample of subsidiary companies located in South Korea.

An essential function of securities markets is to discover asset values. The function is critical for an efficient allocation of capital in the economy, as better price discovery in the stock market translates into better capital allocation decisions. For this reason, regulators and academics often see the maximisation of price discovery as an extremely important goal. Market design depends in large part on the decisions of stock exchanges and stock exchanges themselves are now for-profit firms. Their income derives from trading revenues and increasingly from the sale of information on prices. In this paper, we show that the efficiency of price discovery is, among other factors, determined by the fee charged by exchanges for price information.

M&A deals are complex and challenging transactions that arguably represent the most significant investment a company can undertake, and give researchers an opportunity to analyse the value implications of these executive decisions. Whether mergers and acquisitions ultimately create or destroy corporate value and the identification of the factors that determine M&A success or failure are issues of crucial importance for both the management and shareholders of companies, and also for policy makers. The results presented in this paper provide some important conclusions regarding the impact of mergers and acquisitions in the UK, which should be taken into consideration by policymakers reviewing this area of the corporate environment.

Firms which list their shares on the pubic market should do so with the intent of using their new status for further growth. Whether they do so, and how their activities affect performance, are the bases of this study. In collaboration with its research partners, Credit Suisse and Ernst & Young, the M&A Research Centre (MARC) at Cass Business School performed a study of UK IPOs between 1995 and 2008. The study followed 1,559 companies for the 1,000 days after their first day of trading. The sample includes IPOs which listed their shares on either the UK Main exchange (Main) or on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).