The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is pivotal in firm governance and is tasked with policy implementation and maximizing shareholder benefit. However, predicting CEO behaviour remains challenging, especially when considering CEO power (CEOP). Hence, this study explores the link between CEOP and...

This study investigates the differences between the SOEs and non-SOEs financial performance and how the presidential election affects their performance. This study uses 3,716 firm-year observations for firms listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2001 to 2014 as the final sample and uses...

We focus on firms' risk-taking for customers and investigate how this type of risk-taking is influenced by "performance relative to aspiration" (PRA). Specifically, we examine the PRA and project-financing (PF) loan activities of all 79 savings banks in South Korea from 2013 to 2021. Contrary to...

The paper examines the connection between the top management team determinants and corporate governance in Saudi Arabia's financial listed companies. The study covers the financial sector for five years from 2014 to 2018. Moreover, feasible general least squares regression is used to run the...

This study aims at empirically exploring the influence of sustainability practices on the finan cial performance of 116 listed Swedish companies in the year 2019. The research findings indicate a positive relationship between corporate sustainability and financial performance that is measured by...

This study unfolds the role of national culture in determining the firm financial performance through channel of corporate financial policy. Sample size consists of 7623 non-financial sector firms from 13 Asian economies and fixed-effect model applies to estimates the regression. As the findings...

This study investigates the moderating role of ownership structure in the nexus between corporate governance and the financial performance of manufacturing firms in Ghana. The study uses GLS regression to analyze a panel dataset of 7 manufacturing firms over 14 years. We find a positive and...

This study, conducted between 2016-2021 on Southeast Asian mining companies, introduces the Modified Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Index (MERMi) to measure the implementation of ERM based on the COSO 2017 principles. The study found that ERM implementation is influenced by industry...

Unlike large firms, the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and the firm performance of small- and medium-enterprise firms (SME firms) was found that in the past many studies However, the results of the study of this relationship still differ according to the context,...

This study investigates the moderating effect of company goal clarity on the relationship between government ownership and financial performance of the listed companies in Kenya and Tanzania. The results show that government ownership holds an average of 6% of the ownership stakes and a maximum...