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The causes and consequences of managerial change in Ukraine and the complementarity of reforms
Warzynski, Frederic - 2000
This paper analyses the causes of managerial change and the impact of different reforms on firm performance, using survey data from 300 Ukrainian firms. The main findings are: 1) ownership and competition are linked to managerial change: de novo firms but also privatised firms experienced less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755918
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Insider Privatization with a Tail : The Screening Contract and Performance of Privatized Firms in Rural China
Li, Hongbin; Rozelle, Scott - 2005
This paper studies insider privatization in rural China and provides an explanation of why some firms have performed … well after privatization but others have not. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms … could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of incentives after privatization. A screening theory predicts that the buyout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066983
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The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299971
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping : Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2006
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058137
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How much do the characteristics of independent directors and supervisory board members affect firm performance in China?
Xu, Hongmei - 2013
klarem Zusammenhang zum Unternehmenserfolg stehen. Unabhängig von ihrem professionellem Hintergrund und Alter haben weder die …. Folglich können sie nicht wirklich zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225528
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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China : evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225948
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Employees and managers attitude towards privatization programs : evidence from an emerging economy
Al-Mutairi, Abdullah; Naser, Kamal; Fayez, Fatema - In: International journal of economics and finance 6 (2014) 12, pp. 95-109
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Activating the different sides of top management team faultlines in enterprise sustainable development : is environmental responsibility a burden or boost to small and medium-sized...
Chen, Litian; Zhou, Yun; Luo, Xingwu; Chen, Shuai; Cao, … - In: Business strategy and the environment 32 (2023) 6, pp. 3053-3072
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369683
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Do CEOs of State-Owned Enterprises Matter? Evidence from Brazil, 1973-1993
Musacchio, Aldo - 2012
We study if CEOs and their backgrounds matter for the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) exploiting the fact that these companies had different CEOs (with different backgrounds) in different moments in time. We construct a database of Brazilian SOEs between 1973 and 1993 and make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104354
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Government Ownership, Top Management Team’s Pay Dispersion and Firm Performance
Jiang, Wei - 2020
We examine how government ownership affects the top management team's (TMT) pay dispersion and how such TMT pay dispersion affects subsequent firm performance. We test three competing views on the influences of government ownership, referred to as the agency view, the equity view, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851758