The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized …

managers and thus possibly making China's listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership …This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive …

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables … than 50 employees, we find extensive evidence of a negative association between female CEO and firm's risk attitudes. This … risk aversion profile and put more effort in monitoring firm activities than men in the financial matter domains. A number …

and that this relationship depends on the ownership structure of firms. Turnover is lower in family controlled firms and …

Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than … observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard … tendency to kill non-family businesses regardless of the equity level, a need for fresh capital has a tendency to kill family …

than comparable men. We interpret this outcome as the result of gendered risk preferences, which exacerbate the pay gap …

likely prefer firms to rely on internal labor markets (ILM) when hiring new managers and (2) conceptualizing the employees …