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Female-led firms : performance and risk attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020

Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

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Do big inequalities in executive pay hurt firm performance?

Chung, Richard; DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024

Research Question/Issue: Do large, within-firm executive pay differences hurt firm performance? Prior literature shows mixed results concerning the sign of the relationship between executive pay disparity and firm performance. This study evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament...

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The effect of credit guarantees on R&D investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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High-growth entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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Financial distress and the role of management in micro and small-sized firms

Alexandre, Fernando; Cruz, Sara; Portela, Miguel - 2020

In this paper, we focus on managerial characteristics of micro and small-sized firms. Using linked employer-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams' human capital on the probability of firms becoming financially distressed and...

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Firm performance and managerial turnover : the case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009

ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …

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Physician-leaders and hospital performance : is there an association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011

-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …

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Performance effects of appointing other firms' executive directors to corporate boards : an analysis of UK firms

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Weir, Charlie - 2014

This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...

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