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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover:The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olʹga A. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360623
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Financial Tunnelling and the Revenge of the Insider System
Kirchmaier, Tom; Grant, Jeremy - Manchester Business School - 2005
In this paper, we document how European companies can use financial tunnelling to the disadvantageof minority shareholders, despite improved legislation directed at eliminating such activities. In fourcase studies, two German and two Italian, we document how newly established corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869985
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The Proactive Response to External Pressure?: Changes in Corporate Governance and the Significance of Auditing in Japan
Komori, Naoko - Manchester Business School - 2005
governance, by focusing on the changes in accounting and auditing in post-war Japan. Design/methodology/approach-It delineates … the three key stages in the process by which auditing was shaped in Japan: first, contextual analysis was conducted by … of stakeholder-orientated corporate governance in Japan. It also shows that in the current auditing context, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870170
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Firm Performance: Do Non-Executive Directors Have Minds Of TheirOwn? Evidence From UK Panel Data
Mura, Roberto - Manchester Business School - 2007
I investigate the relation between firm performance and both ownership structure and board composition. Use of theGMM methodology permits simultaneous control of both endogeneity of the independent variables and fixedeffects. The data comprise an original, large, hand-collected panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870174
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ON THE RELEVANCE OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE IN DETERMINING THE MATURITY OF DEBT
Marchica, Maria-Teresa - Manchester Business School - 2008
tradeoff underinvestment against the liquidity risk entailed in shorter maturities.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870604
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The Institutional Construction of Firms
Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2008
The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economiesand changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they developdistinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supportingpolitical-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870631
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Real Wages over the Business Cycle:OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains
Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sectorover the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data anddynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-countryheterogeneity even after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418920
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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418921
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The Post-Enlargement Migration Experiencein the Baltic Labor Markets
Hazans, Mihails; Philips, Kaia - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with severalother surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EUaccession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, aswell as selection issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347580
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Informal Caring and Labour Market OutcomesWithin England and Wales
Drinkwater, Stephen - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity atthe sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to datedespite the wide regional variations in informal care provision that often exist. This issue isimportant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347581