managers and shareholders. These findings suggest that cross-sectional OLS regressions of bank performance on single governance … savings-and-loan holding companies. These governance characteristics, designed to reduce agency problems between shareholders … ownership structures. The results suggest that banks substitute between governance mechanisms that align the interests of …

We compare the performance and risk of a sample of 181 large banks from 15 European countries over the 1999-2004 period …

support for the contention that the franchisors' performance is contingent on the ‘fit' between governance structure … (franchise proportion) and resources (critical human assets). In contrast, strong evidence that the governance/performance …This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is …

focused on identifying generic productivity and performance strategies in service firms and organizations. …The concept of productivity is at the heart of economic theory, management science and operational management of firms … are indeed a major challenge to the concept of productivity. The objective of this paper is to review issues raised by …

previous research on board-CEO relationship and on venture capital and management buyout governance, we aim at complementing … processes, VC's roles vis à vis CEOs, and investment performance. …

This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on … convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the … performance. …

This paper examines the proposition that financial policy and corporate governance are linked and change as a part of a …