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examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers' independence from owners in terms of strategic decision …-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers' independence is positively associated with firms' financial performance … and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers' independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …
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This collection of short papers examines the role of corporate governance with regard to human resource management and corporate strategy over the course of the firm life cycle, as well as in diverse institutional environments such as the UK, Germany and Japan
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There has been a substantial debate about the benefits rationalisation might have conferred on British manufacturing during the interwar years. One industry which has featured prominently is the Lancashire cotton-textile industry. This article assesses the validity of John Maynard Keynes' claim...
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Building on the ‘law and economics’ literature, this paper analyses corporategovernance implications of debt financing in an environment where a dominant owner isable to extract ex ante ‘private benefits of control’. Ownership concentration may result inlower efficiency, measured as a...
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Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by both foreign investors and by Hungarian corporations. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneous equity structures, where...
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examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision …-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers’ independence is positively associated with firms’ financial performance … and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers’ independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …
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