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Audits, audit quality and signalling mechanisms: concentrated ownership structures
Marianne, Ojo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
where institutional investors assume a greater role – as opposed to position which exists where increased stake of family … holdings (family controlled structures) arises. …
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Family control and expropriation at not-for-profit organizations: evidence from korean private universities
Bae, Kee-Hong; Kim, Seung-Bo; Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
donations and poor quality. Using a sample of Korean private universities, we find that measures of family control in excess of … that universities at which the controlling family exerts disproportionate control are more likely to face disputes between … the controlling family and other stakeholders. Finally, we show that our results are not driven by reverse causality. …
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Product-market competition, corporate governance and innovation: evidence on US-listed firms
Hashem, Nawar; Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by...
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Corporate governance, competition, the new international financial architecture and large corporations in emerging markets
Singh, Ajit; Singh, Alaka; Weisse, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Abstract This paper examines from the developing countries perspective important analytical and policy issues arising from: a) the current international discussions about corporate governance in relation to the New International Financial Architecture; b) changes in the international competitive...
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Board diversity and firm performance: the Indonesian evidence
Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the associations between diversity of board members and financial performance of the firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Three demographic characteristics of board members—gender, nationality, and age—are used as the proxies for diversity. Using a sample...
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Return enhancing, cash-rich or simply empire-building? An empirical investigation of corporate real estate holdings
Du, Julan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Chu, Derek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
No, we find no evidence for a return-enhancing role for corporate real estate holdings, which is consistent with the previous literature. Instead, our study based on a sample of U.S. listed corporations suggests that corporate real estate holdings are a form of managerial “empire building”....
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Impact of Corporate Governance on Performance of Firms: A Case Study of Cement Industry in Pakistan
Cheema, Khaliq Ur Rehman; Din, Muhammad Sadat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Cement industry of Pakistan. This study gives attention to three variables which include board Size, Family controlled firms …
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Prisoner’s dilemma for EU bank groups
Nedelchev, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
What happenned after 2007 requires that new kind of instruments are applied in order to face the global financial crisis. Non-coordinated actions undertaken by a single bank group have additionally sharpened the effects of the crisis and have resulted in the must of joint efforts which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259177
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Shareholder protection and stockmarket development: an empirical test of the legal origins hypothesis
Armour, John; Deakin, Simon; Sarkar, Prabirjit; Siems, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We test the ‘law matters’ and ‘legal origin’claims using a newly created panel dataset measuring legal change over time in a sample of developed and developing countries. Our dataset improves on previous ones by avoiding country-specific variables in favour of functional and generic...
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СЪВРЕМЕННАТА КОРПОРАЦИЯ И ЧАСТНАТА СОБСТВЕНОСТ – 80 ГОДИНИ ПО-КЪСНО
Nedelchev, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The events that took place since 2007 raised new challenges to the economy. The traditional approaches to the corporate governance and to the private property are have reshaped. The interests of the society and of the national economy win the upper hand against the interests of the company. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259383