Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on high growth firms … enactment of SOX increases monitoring costs of board governance especially for high-growth firms. …

) by including more recent proxy variables. Finds no significant results from low growth firms, although some high growth …

Uses previous research on firms’ potential investment (i.e. growth) opportunities, profitability and political cost …/risk to suggest that a high level of growth opportunities may encourage managers to use income reducing accruals. Tests this … on 1987‐1990 data from a sample of US multinationals classified into high or low growth groups. Explains the methods used …

Explains how growth in banks is constrained by equity growth and regulations on leverage; and expresses the sustainable … growth rate (SCR: i.e. maximum increase in total assets which can be supported by internally generated equity capital …) mathematically. Applies the model to the National Bank of Greece 1993‐1998 and shows that its growth exceeded the SGR except for 1994 …

relationships. Samples 100 firms from 1987 to 1992, and classifies them by high or low multinationality and high or low growth … assets by multinationality and by growth. Presents the interaction effects of means, finding that high multinationality firms … have higher rates of return on assets, and so do high growth firms. Links profitability, multinationality and the …

market growth, e.g. economic and regulatory development/reform, legal and market structure reform, requirements for financial …

horizons (i.e. growth companies) and tests them on 1979‐1987 data for a sample of US firms. Explains the methodology used and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on high growth firms … enactment of SOX increases monitoring costs of board governance especially for high-growth firms.  …

corporations. In the later growth period, midstream corporations and partnerships are no longer significantly different in their … research comparing publicly traded partnerships and corporations. During the growth phase, the findings lend support to the … seminal literature with respect to corporations potentially best-suited to “growth” industries, while highlighting specific …