Why do the founding families of many East Asian companies hold on today-to-daymanagement Is there more going on than meets the eye? This paper uncovers the disturbing patterns of unfair internal transactions among subsidiaries to maximize the wealth of controlling families at the expense of...

Merger deals are one of the most important business strategies which can change the company value dramatically. Mergers have been constantly a subject of debate and analysis over the past decades. Thus, it is a matter of great interest to analyze merger activities during economic crisis periods,...

The purpose of this study is to find out how the positive influence of corporate sustainable development on corporate financial performance alters during the two recent crises i.e. the global recession (2008-10) and COVID-19 (2019-20). The fixed effect modeling of panel data is applied in the...

This paper examines how corporate reliance on budgets is affected by major changes in the economic environment. We combine survey and archival data from the economic crisis that began in 2008. The results indicate that, as a result of the economic crisis, budgeting became more important for...