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The relationship among family business, corporate governance and firm performance: Evidence from the Mexican stock exchange
San Martin-Reyna, J.M.; Duran-Encalada, Jorge A. - In: Journal of Family Business Strategy 3 (2012) 2, pp. 106-117
This study aims to examine whether there are differences in performance between family and non-family firms, taking … a comprehensive study and comparison between companies with different (i.e., family vs. non-family) ownership structures … performance depending on the degree of ownership concentration. We find that family firms adopt substantially different corporate …
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from New Panel Data
Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
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How Does Privatization Work? Ownership Concentration and Enterprise Performance in Ukraine
Pivovarsky, Alexander - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper investigates the relationship between ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine. Using data on 376 medium and large enterprises, it finds that ownership concentration is positively associated with enterprise performance in Ukraine. The paper also finds that...
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Corporate Board Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Nigeria
UJUNWA, Austin; OKOYEUZU, Chinwe; NWAKOBY, Ifeoma - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 13 (2012) 4, pp. 605-620
This paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms using a panel data of 122 quoted Nigerian firms. Aspects of board diversity studied comprise board nationality, board gender and board ethnicity. The Fixed Effect Generalised...
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Does ownership concentration improve M&A outcomes in emerging markets?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 18 (2012) 4, pp. 717-726
Using firm level data from India, we examine the impact of ownership concentration on post-M&A performance of firms. Our analysis has implications for both the M&A literature, which emphasises the role of agency conflict between managers and owners of widely held companies as a key reason for...
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Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Palmberg, Johanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper investigates the entrepreneurial spirit in Swedish listed family firms. We associate family firms with … analysis two questions: Do entrepreneurial family firms have a higher rate of growth and do they invest in a more profit … maximizing fashion than other listed firms? The analysis shows that entrepreneurial family firms in general are smaller in terms …
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The Effects of Private Equity on Targets: Majority versus Minority Investments
Battistin, Erich; Bortoluzzi, Paolo; Buttignon, Fabio; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2013
acquire a minority interest in family firms or, to some extent, when they take a majority stake in non-family firms. These … results suggest that when dealing with family firms PEs are particularly beneficial when they tend to complement rather than …
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Ownership Concentration, Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Turkey
Pınar, Mandacı; Guluzar, Gumus - In: South East European Journal of Economics and Business 5 (2010) 1, pp. 57-66
This study examines the effects of ownership concentration and managerial ownership on the profitability and the value of non-financial firms listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) in the context of an emerging market. We measure the firm's performance by Return on Assets (ROA) and Tobin's...
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Direct and indirect impacts of governance on the value of Brazilian corporations
Lameira, Valdir De Jesus; Walter Lee Ness <suffix>Jr.<; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 6, pp. 639-658
This study estimated the quality of governance practices employed by a sample of publicly traded companies in Brazil between 2002 and 2006. It also explored the way quality of governance is related to three variables: risk, performance, and value. The Hausman test showed endogeneity between...
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The Relationship between Corporate Governance Indicators and Firm Value : A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange
Javed, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
We investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore, we analysed the relationship between firm-level value as measured by Tobins Q and total Corporate...
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