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Female Board Leadership, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance : Evidence from China
Jiang, Fuxiu - 2019
Using a large sample of Chinese firms, we examine performance differences between firms with female and male chairs and the channels through which such differences arise. After controlling for the presence of female CEOs and non-chair female directors, we find that chairwoman firms perform...
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Investment Terms and Level of Control of China's Sovereign Wealth Fund in Its Portfolio Firms
Li, Jing - 2017
This paper examines the investment terms of SWFs in respect of control rights in investee firms. Having reviewed extensive evidence from the China Investment Corporation from 2007 to 2015, I show that this SWF takes significant equity in investees, but often in the form of non-controlling...
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State as an Entrepreneur : A Study of the Investment Contractual Terms and Level of Control of China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund in Its Portfolio Firms
Li, Jing - 2015
that practically, it is often not necessary for CIC to possess or use formal corporate governance tools to exert control … efficacy of regulatory proposals forcing SWFs to remain passive in the corporate governance realm by, for example, asking them …
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Going public in China : reverse mergers versus IPOs
Lee, Charles M. C.; Qu, Yuanyu; Shen, Tao - 2018 - This draft: July 17, 2018
We study firms that go public through reverse mergers (RMs) versus initial public offerings (IPOs) in China. Using a manually assembled data set, we show that pre-listing RM firms are larger, more profitable, and less politically connected than pre-listing IPO firms. Chinese RM firms also have...
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty, State Ownership, and Board Size in China
Liao, Jing - 2016
This paper examines the impacts of macroeconomic uncertainty, state ownership and board composition on firm performance. First, we find state ownership is negatively related to firm performance measured by return on assets and Tobin's Q. However, Tobin's Q increases with state ownership when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999385
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American Entrepreneur in China : Potholes and Roadblocks on the Silk Road to Prosperity
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2012
fundamentally different in the PRC along with an examination of relevant legal and corporate governance issues …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in China:A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint
Vermander, Benoit - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
China. Cross-disciplinary in scope, the book aims at helping students and analysts in political science, governance … and Conflicts of Interests</li> <li>CSR and Corporate Governance</li> <li>Reports, Foundations, Projects and Networks …
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Unification and division : a theory of institutional choices in imperial China
Zhou, Haiwen - In: Annals of economics and finance 24 (2023) 1, pp. 13-37
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From bottom-up to top-down : governance, institutionalisation, and innovation in Chinese makerspaces
Fu, Pengfei - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 33 (2021) 10, pp. 1226-1241
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Beyond performance legitimacy: procedural legitimacy and discontent in China
Birney, Mayling - 2017
about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to …-Wen era. Despite low priority and constrained governance reforms, the main legitimation strategy in the Hu-Wen era remained …
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