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The board of directors and firm innovation : a meta-analytical review
Sierra-Morán, Johana; Cabeza-García, Laura; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 27 (2024) 2, pp. 182-207
innovation. However, empirical findings have not been totally conclusive, and some seem contradictory. Adopting a new perspective … innovation for the period 1988-2018. The results suggest that certain aspects of boards, such as meeting frequency and the … proportions of independent directors and outsiders, show the most significant correlations with firm innovation, but the levels of …
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Board Diversity, Inventor Collaboration, and Corporate Innovation
Cao, Chunfang - 2019
find that firms with more minority directors are associated with greater innovation output. Using patent …
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Pilot CEOs and Corporate Innovation
Sunder, Jayanthi - 2016
better innovation outcomes, measured by patents and citations, greater innovation effectiveness, and more diverse and … to identify CEOs who are likely to drive innovation success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006115
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Corporate governance and firm innovation : evidence from indigenous oil firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Akpan, Ekom Etim; Al-Faryan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh; … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Previous studies on the effect of corporate governance on firm innovation shows mixed outcomes, while some reveal … innovation with special interest in indigenous oil firms in Nigeria, a Sub-Saharan country. The study adopted a cross sectional …, board commitment and board involvement have positive and statistically significant effects on firm innovation measures of …
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Strategic Alliances and Corporate Governance in Newly Public Firms : Evidence from Venture Backed IPOs
Ivanov, Vladimir I. - 2010
We investigate the corporate governance of venture capital (VC) backed IPOs that enter into strategic alliances. Startups can have alliances with outside strategic partners and with parents of corporate VCs (CVCs), who primarily invest in startups for strategic reasons. Both CVCs and outside...
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Strategic role of corporate transparency : the case of Ukrainian agroholdings : special issue: agroholdings and mega-farms in a global context
Gagalyuk, Taras - 2017 - Received: 26 February 2016, accepted: 17 November 2016
The paper argues that transparency of large corporate farms operating in transition economies is the factor that affects their competitive position as it helps to preserve access to international equity markets and to reduce uncertainty that arises from imperfect local input markets. We...
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Insight private equity
Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai - 2013
We are able to shed light on the black box of restructuring tools private equity investors use to improve the operational performance of their portfolio companies. By building on previous work considering performance evaluation of PE backed companies, we analyze whether private equity improves...
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Private equity, corporate governance and out-performance of high-growth firms
Badunenko, Oleg; Karber, Moritz Fabien; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2010
The paper investigates how Private Equity (PE) ownership influences out-performance of a high-growth firm, and whether it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We transform the levered return on equity into a unlevered...
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Are Busy Boards Detrimental?
Field, Laura Casares - 2012
Busy directors have been widely criticized as being ineffective. However, we hypothesize that busy directors offer advantages for many firms. While busy directors may be less effective monitors, their experience and contacts arguably make them excellent advisors. Among IPO firms, which have...
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Operating Performance, Valuation, Leverage, and Corporate Governance of Leveraged Buy-Out Transactions : A Continental European Perspective
Harbula, Péter - 2011
This article aims to analyse the evolution over the recent years of LBO funds, in terms of valuation (asset prices) and the role that leverage and corporate governance played in its evolution.Leverage is one of the positive factors that is supposed to contribute to the success of private equity,...
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