The literature on working capital management (WCM) provides mixed evidence on the effect of working capital on firm profitability and performance. We use firms from developed and emerging economies to explore how working capital and its components relate to firms' performance while controlling...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine socially responsible investment (SRI) fund performance and investigate the factors influencing fund performance. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses return data from the Morningstar database for 152 SRI funds from January 1995 to May...

Purpose: The impact of founder CEOs on firm value continues to be debated in the finance literature. While earlier studies suggest that founding family ownership and founding CEO structure create less value than public ownership, later studies provide contradicting...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of US mutual funds that invest primarily in emerging market equities and bonds. Design/methodology/approach - The study adopts the Morningstar classification of mutual funds and uses the Lipper US Mutual Fund Database through...

This study investigates the financial self-assessments and households' well-being using a national survey of 2,567 households in Turkey. We use Maslow's hierarchy of needs framework through households' views for their ability to meet current living expenses in the short-term as well as their...