This study examines managerial compensation incentives and its impact on firm's financial decisions. Specifically, we examine how CEO's inside-debt based compensation incentives (pension benefits and other deffered compensation) influences firm's debt maturity structure. We examine this...

This paper examines the impact of group - and family - ownership on financial performance of a sample of firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange from the year 2003 to 2008. Since previous studies have found ownership structure to be endogenously determined, we account for this problem by...

Performance measurement has been defined and redefined over the years. Researchers have tried to explain this important area of management control with respect to their area of specialty. However, very few researches have tried to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach. This has resulted in a...

Profit and growth are considered as important goals in managing firms. This study tests the impact of initial profits on the growth and profit on a sample of firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) for the period 2006 to 2011. In addition to initial profits the study also checked the impact...

This paper studies the impact of corporate ownership structure on firm performance. This paper tests whether policy intervention with respect to blockholding and higher managerial ownership is required in Pakistan. We hypothesize that market places expropriation premium on stocks of such firms...

Research has been controversial regarding theorized findings of High Performing Work System (HPWS)/firm performance research due to several reasons. First, operationalization of variables differs drastically from one study to the next. Second, theoretical frameworks also vary greatly as does the...