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The Influence of Ownership on Performance: Stakeholder and Strategic Contingency Perspectives
Brouthers, Keith D.; Gelderman, Maarten; Arens, Patrick - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 59 (2007) 3, pp. 225-242
In this paper we extend the corporate governance literature by combining stakeholder and strategic contingency theories to provide an explanation of how owners influence the financial performance of firms. We hypothesize that ownership influences financial performance through three other...
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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Measuring the Efficiency and the Effect of Corporate Governance on the Biotechnology and Medical Equipment Industries in Taiwan
Lee, Yen-Hsien; Huang, Ya-Ling; Hsu, Shiuh-Sheng; Hung, … - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 3 (2013) 3, pp. 662-672
This study adopts data envelopment analysis with Tobit regression analysis to measure the efficiency and investigate the influence of corporate governance on the efficiency of the biotechnology and medical equipment industries in Taiwan. The empirical results show that while inside equity...
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After Voucher Privatization: The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Russian Manufacturing Industry
Earle, John S; Estrin, Saul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper analyses the ownership structure emerging from the Russian privatization process, using information from a … programme was completed. The Russian ownership structure calls for a new approach to the analysis of corporate control because … privatization methods for ownership structure, on the incidence of non-voting and voting shares, and on the extent of concentration …
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Defensive and Strategic Restructuring in Central European Enterprises
Grosfeld, Irena; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper interprets the existing evidence on enterprise restructuring in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Despite differences in restructuring policies, the pattern of observed restructuring appears similar in the three countries. Contrary to initial expectations, managers of SOEs have...
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND STAKEHOLDERS’ ACCOUNTABILITY
Chițimuș, Elena - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2015) 7, pp. 135-140
business decisions, risk management, control that set the economic path of the company is mandatory for proving that the …
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The Determinants of Privatized Enterprise Performance in Russia
Angelucci, Manuela; Bevan, Alan; Estrin, Saul; Fennema, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Using data from a large enterprise-level panel designed to address this issue, we account for enterprise performance in Russia. We link performance to four aspects of the economic environment outlined in the literature: enterprise ownership; corporate governance; market structures and competition;...
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
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Plea for a Modular Design of Business Ethics – Basics of The Ethical Substantiation of Economic Decisions
Schweitzer, Marcell - In: Annales. Ethics in Economic Life 16 (2013) 1, pp. 13-39
We regard this article as a plea for the modular design of a practice-related discipline of business ethics, in which we analyse under what conditions economic decisions and actions in firms – regardless of their content – are to be understood as morally right. Following the clarification of...
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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: An Analysis of Family and Non-family Controlled Firms
Yasser, Qaiser Rafique - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 1, pp. 47-62
The aim of this study is to scrutinise the impact of corporate governance mechanism on the performance of family and non-family controlled firms in Pakistan. It has been found that a corporate governance structure influences the performance of both family and non-family controlled companies...
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