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The current paper studies the impact of board gender-diversity on firm risk-taking in a developing market. Our study is drawn on a sample of 30 Tunisian listed firms between 1997 and 2010. First, we found that women have a risk perception that leads to a risk avoidance behavior: the presence of...
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practical evidence to suggest that gender-diverse corporate boards have a positive impact on performance, the results from … relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance from a dynamic perspective through using quantile regression. This … performance measure. Using a panel of French listed companies (SBF 120) over the period 2009-2011, we uncover that the impact of …
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, size, and performance. Using a sample of 290 firm-years observations from SBF 120 Index companies (2009-2011), we find that …
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Institutional investors are predominant on the financial markets and are becoming more active in their portfolio management. This article attempts to enhance our understanding of the incidence of shareholder activism on market reaction in the wake of seve
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subject of our article that focuses in terms of theoretical performance and limitations of the anti-takeover linear limitation …
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The object of this contribution is to address the question of the ownership of the firm. Both law and economics shape representations of the world: law focuses on rules and justice; economics focuses on efficiency and allocation. They describe common situations and "objects'' such as firms and...
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Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...
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The current study investigates the determinants of going private (GP) in France. It contrasts a sample of 161 firms that went private between 1997 and 2009 with a propensity-score-matched sample of firms that remained public during the same period. The results indicate that, unlike for firms...
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Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754709
Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754752