The article was conducted to evaluate the impact of CEO characteristics on the performance of Vietnamese commercial banks. Variables representing the performance of commercial banks are return on total assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Data was collected from 30 Vietnamese commercial...

Impact investment has emerged as an idea for sustainable development and aims at creating positive change towards the environment and society besides increasing returns. There have been many debates regarding its functionality and viability and argue that is made in favor of “financial...

We study the determinants of average pay across all levels of staff seniority for UK banks between 2003 and 2012. We show that pay is affected by agency problems but not by bank operating performance. Average pay does not depend on accounting outcomes at the bank level. By contrast, average pay...

The article focuses on the agency cost of Indian banks. The researchers have worked on data covering a data period from 2005 to 2013 which covers the pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis period. Two proxies for agency cost have been taken to arrive at conclusions after applying appropriate tests....

This paper empirically investigates how the level of authority delegation is related to the performance of an organization. Decentralized, horizontal organizational structure takes advantage of more efficient decision making, mainly due to more efficient use of "soft" information. The cost of...

The Lebanese banking sector has become risky due to political and economic crises. At such times, corporate governance mechanisms ensure objectivity of assessment and rationality in decision making. We examine the impact of internal corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of Lebanese...