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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...
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This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
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While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...
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Anglo-American stock markets are much larger than their continental counterparts. Does investor protection and governance explain these differences? Using UK data, we examine four different forms of intervention which are suppose to promote good governance: takeovers, independent directors,...
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, enterprises that pursue a diversification strategy prove against it as clearly growth-oriented. However, not all enterprises …
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relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …
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Chandlerian world entails a lower spread of managerial salaries, greater product diversification, and a greater degree of products …
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team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance...
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This paper analyses the turnover of board of directors members on a sample of companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the period 1988-1996. Our aim is to investigate if board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, if this relationship...
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