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The Influence of Ownership Structure and Board Strategic Involvement on International Sales : The Moderating Effect of Family Involvement
Calabrò, Andrea; Torchia, Mariateresa; Pukall, Thilo Justus - 2013
This paper contributes to the family business and the international business literature by analyzing whether and to what extent different compositions of the ownership structure and degrees of board strategic involvement impact on the level of international sales of family and non-family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169220
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Family Ownership and Control in Large Firms : The Good, the Bad, the Irrelevant - and Why
Peng, Mike W.; Jiang, Yi - 2006
positions suggesting that such concentration is (1) good, (2) bad, or (3) irrelevant for firm performance. This article reports … test competing hypotheses on the impact of the combination of family ownership and control on firm performance. On a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055236
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Stakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility : An Ownership Perspective
Foss, Nicolai J. - 2018
We argue that the stakeholder and CSR literatures can benefit from more systematic thinking about ownership. We discuss general notions of ownership in economics and law and the entrepreneurial notion of ownership we have developed in prior work. On this basis, we argue that stakeholder theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927949
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The Pressure Behind Corporate Social Performance : Ownership and Institutional Configurations
Desender, Kurt A. - 2020
explains firm-level corporate social performance (CSP) by emphasizing the importance of considering owners' and other … impact of corporate social performance (CSP) on firm outcomes. Less is known about the motives and pressures behind CSP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825935
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Individual Large Shareholders, Earnings Management, and Capital Market Consequences
Dou, Yiwei - 2016
Using a large hand-collected sample of all blockholders (ownership ≥ 5%) of S&P 1500 firms for the years 2002–2009, we first document significant individual blockholder effects on earnings management (accrual-based earnings management, real earnings management, and restatements). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007435
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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Performance : The Influence of Boards, Ownership and Institutions
Desender, Kurt A. - 2015
We analyze how ownership concentration and type, and board independence are related to corporate social performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027401
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Assessment of the Lodging Industry Profitability Performance : Invest in Independent or Chain Ownership?
Kapiki, Soultana - 2015
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the economic results of the independent hotels in comparison with the chain hotels as well as to propose suggestions for the viability of the lodging industry.The survey took place in Greece concerning the period 2008-2011 and it was conducted via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033325
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Corporate Governance Through Ownership Structure : Evidence from KSE-100 Index
Shabbir, Aqsa - 2019
This paper examined the association between ownership structure, firm performance and dividend policy with respect to … panel data to measure the relationship between ownership structure, firm performance and dividend policy. The empirical … results provide evidence that ownership structure significantly affects the dividend policy and firm performance in connection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869667
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Ownership, Activism and Engagement : Institutional Investors as Active Owners
McNulty, Terry - 2017
Research Question: We research two questions: First, why do some institutional investors operate at a distance from organizations seemingly acting only to “exit” and “trade” shares while others actively engage through various means of “voice”? Second, what processes and behaviour are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969173
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Ownership and the Internationalization of Small Firms
George, Gerard; Wiklund, Johan; Zahra, Shaker A. - 2005
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in international markets. This study argues that the ownership structures of SMEs influence their proclivity to take risks and expand the scale and scope of their internationalization efforts. Data from 889 Swedish SMEs reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072762