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Family Firms, Agency Costs and Risk Aversion - Empirical Evidence from Diversification and Hedging Decisions

Schmid, Thomas; Ampenberger, Markus; Kaserer, Christoph; … - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2008

diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed …-family firms in terms of overall and related business segment diversification. For geographical diversification, we do not find … costs and thus leads to lower levels of business segment diversification and less currency hedging. In contrast family …

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Corporate Governance, Managers’ Independence, Exporting andPerformance of Firms in Transition Economies

Filatočev, Igorʹ V.; Isachenkova, Natalia; … - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2006

Using data on 157 large companies in Poland and Hungary this paper employs Bayesianstructural equation modeling to examine interrelationships between corporategovernance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision-making,exporting and performance. It is found that...

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Besondere Problemstellungen von Leasinggesellschaften im Rahmen des KonTraG

Helfrich, Karl-Heinz - Institut für Bankwirtschaft und Bankrecht an der … - 2001

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Understanding the Relationship between Founder-CEOs and Firm Performance

Adams, Renee B.; Almeida, Heitor; Ferreira, Daniel - Salomon Center <New York, NY> - 2003

While previous empirical literature has examined the effect of founder-CEOs on firm performance, it has largely ignored the effect of firm performance on founder-CEO status.(...)

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Corporate Governance over the Business Cycle

Philippon, Thomas - 2005

I provide empirical evidence that badly governed firms respond more to aggregate shocks than do well governed firms.(...)

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Ownership Structure and the Operating Performanceof Hungarian Firms

Campbell, Kevin - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

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Changes in Corporate Governance Structures inPolish Privatised Companies

Kozarzewski, Piotr - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

The paper presents early results of the survey of 84 Polish privatised industrial companies, sampled from a list of the 500 biggest firms. Three aspects of corporate governance were analysed: ownership structure, management of the companies, and supervision structures. An attempt was made to...

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Organisatorische Neuausrichtung im Post Merger-Management

Lindstädt, Hagen; Wolff, Michael - Institut für Angewandte Betriebswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

Der mittel- und langfristige Erfolg von M&A-Aktivitäten wird ent-scheidend dadurch beeinflusst, inwieweit es gelingt, die Teile des neu entstehenden Unternehmens miteinander zu verbinden und zu einer geeigneten Organisation zusammenzufügen. Dies wird beson-ders durch das Schlagwort...

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Neuausrichtung der Organisation nach M&A-Aktivitäten

Lindstädt, Hagen - Institut für Angewandte Betriebswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

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The Drivers and Implications of Business Divestiture - AnApplication and Extension of Prior Findings

Decker, Carolin; Mellewigt, Thomas - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

The purpose of this study is to extend the current understanding of business divestiture by investigating its potential for triggering strategic reorientation. A divestiture involving strategic reorientation is here denoted as a strategic business exit, otherwise it is a status...

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