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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I. - 1999
Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428290
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001723445
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Müller, Elisabeth; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2001
We analyze the relationship between managerial ownership and company performance, testing the incentive and entrenchment hypothesis. Differently from previous literature, we focus on small and medium-sized private enterprises which constitute an important part of the German economy. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001633303
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Corporate ownership structure and performance in Europe
Grant, Jeremy (contributor); Kirchmaier, Thomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002032802
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Do all new brooms sweep clean? : evidence for outside bank appointments
Kick, Thomas; Nehring, Inge; Schertler, Andrea - 2017
Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722661
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Dynamics in ownership and firm survival : evidence from corporate Germany
Heiss, Florian - 2001
This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428455
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Corporate governance, market discipline, and productivity growth
Köke, F. Jens - 2001
governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428449
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Birthplace diversity and team performance
Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010641
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Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance
Krekel, Christian; Ward, George; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986405