This paper investigates the relationship between governance mechanisms, risk management practices and performance of water and sanitation projects in Uganda. A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of 66 water and sanitation projects in South-western Uganda. Data were...

This study is designed to provide empirical evidences on the conditional influence corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate accounting and market performance. This study considers risk management (RM) as a conditional or moderating variable. Accounting performance was proxied by return...

The main aim of this paper is to examine the determinants that contribute to the establishment of a risk management committee (RMC) in a firm. Unlike previous studies, this paper investigates the types of ownership structure, comprising family, institutional, government, managerial, and foreign...

Previous studies use mainly insolvency, credit, liquidity, market, and operational risk to measure risk-taking in Islamic banks. We are expanding the risk indicators: credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, operational risk, legal risk, reputation risk, strategic risk, shariah compliance risk,...

This study examines whether the agency problem regarding credit risk is a useful corporate governance mechanism for controlling credit risk. For this purpose, we estimate the impact of internal control and agency problems on credit risk in commercial banks in Vietnam from 2009 to 2018. First, in...

This study examined corporate governance, risk control in deposit money banks and how operational problems within commercial banks and information on them in Nigeria has been hoarded to a great extent. The result shows a negative but a significant impact on bank's financial performance. However,...

Banking segment is one of the ultimate key segments that support the sustainable economic progress in Jordan. Hence, banks in Jordan are considered as tremendously significant financial establishments that pursue profit by providing various financial services to various customers through dealing...

The current study aims to measure the effect of executive managers (EMs) features on the risk-taking level in Jordanian small- and medium-sized service firms. For data analysis purposes, ordinary least squares regression analysis was utilized. We used the screening sample approach. A sample of...

This article contributes to the quantification of systemic risk within the Moroccan banking system, focusing on listed banks. We utilize indicators derived from Tail Value at Risk and expectiles risk measures, as introduced by El qalli and Said (2013) (El Qalli & Said, 2023), to measure the...

Motivated by agency theory, this study seeks to understand the effect of the country-level national governance system on the extent of corporate risk-taking in the MENA region. The study employs a two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) approach to evaluate the influence of governance...