John Anchor

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the vulnerability of international projects to political risks and found that the political risk associated with international projects poses a threat to the majority of respondents and that the vulnerability to political risk is related to a firm's degree of internationalisation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used a two-step generalized method of moments system estimator to examine the impacts of risk, competition and cost efficiency on profitability of a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003-2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the awareness and use of strategic planning tools and techniques by Jordanian public companies in the financial, service, and industrial sectors, and found that the most used techniques used by Jordanian companies are financial analysis (for own business), PEST or STEP analysis, Porter's five-forces analysis, and analysis of key (critical) success factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a survey of Jordanian hotels in two cities, namely, Petra and Aqaba, to understand the use of strategic planning tools and techniques by hotels in Jordan and the nature of its relationship with managers' views of the strategic planning process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of risk and competition on efficiency in Chinese banking industry over the period 2003-2013 was investigated and the results showed that the technical and pure technical efficiencies of Chinese commercial banks are significantly and negatively affected by liquidity risk.