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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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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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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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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 in der Energiewirtschaft – zwischen Unternehmenswert und Public Value

Ahrend, Klaus-Michael - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014

Eine verantwortungsvolle Corporate Governance soll dazu beitragen, dass einerseits das Energieunternehmen und andererseits der wesentliche Gesellschafter, die Kommune, bei der Erfüllung ihrer Ziele unterstützt werden. Wie jeder private Anteilseigner strebt die politische Führung einer Kommune...

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The Impact of Foreign Corporate Ownership on Downsizing and Labour Cost

Chai, D.H. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

This study examines the impact of foreign ownership on the firm's labour cost using a panel data of 496 publicly traded Korean companies during the post Asian financial crisis period of 1998-2003. It shows that foreign ownership is positively related to labour cost but this positive effect is...

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Asymmetric Information and International Corporate Social Responsibility

Lopatta, Kerstin; Buchholz, Frerich; Kaspereit, Thomas - ZenTra - Center for Transnational Studies - 2014

We investigate the relation between asymmetric information of insider trades and international corporate social responsibility for U.S. firms listed in the MSCI world index during the period 2004 to 2010. In comparison to current studies, which focus on measuring the interrelation between the...

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