The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to theirperformance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the pastperformance of firms measured by return...

The Working Paper employs the paradigm of new institutional economics to examine peculiaritiesof the Russian model of corporate governance and control in the banking sector. The study reliesupon theoretical as well as applied research of corporate governance in Russian commercial banksfeaturing...

Using data on 157 large companies in Poland and Hungary this paper employs Bayesianstructural equation modeling to examine interrelationships between corporategovernance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision-making,exporting and performance. It is found that...

The paper provides an interpretation of the transformation of post-soviet Russian enterprises from the resource-based perspective of the firm in the context of institutional change. Based on the resource-based perspective, which conceptualises a firm as a collection of resources embedded in...

Using panel data on large Polish firms this paper examines the relationship between corporatecontrol structures, sales growth and the determinants of employment change during the period 1996-2002. We find that privatised and de novo firms are the main drivers of employment growth andthat, in the...

In Russia, the problem of corporate governance has become a frequent subject fordiscussion. Stories now abound about questionable corporate governance practices, suchas share dilution, asset stripping, transfer pricing, complex ownership structures, limitingshareholders from attending the...

The paper discusses Polish privatisation from the industrial relations point of view. Itfocuses on the role of trade unions and workers councils in the privatisation process.Two polar privatisation blueprints are identified: those aiming at competitive ‘atomistic’firms and those, which...

This paper offers analysis of corporate governance issues behind the stock market performance(stock returns and activity) in nine Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: the CzechRepublic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Overthe period June 1994...

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

The paper presents early results of the survey of 84 Polish privatised industrial companies, sampled from a list of the 500 biggest firms. Three aspects of corporate governance were analysed: ownership structure, management of the companies, and supervision structures. An attempt was made to...