Purpose – To examine how relations with social groups, including shareholders, customers, employees and vendors among other stakeholders are pivotal to generating wealth and optimising long‐term shareholder value. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the values intrinsic in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze which key financial factors are appropriate for measuring a credit rating score for family firms. In the recent literature, there exists a vast number of studies which evaluates performance differences between family and non-family firms (NFF)....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the trading patterns of corporate insiders, both managing and non-managing, around the announcement dates of securities class action lawsuits and related legal settlements. Design/methodology/approach The authors use market model event study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present novel empirical findings regarding the shareholder-management agency problem. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents new evidence regarding the shareholder-management agency problem. It expands the set of factors that may cause...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review recent research on the structure of equity ownership and its impact on firm value. In doing so, the paper outlines the main issues, surveys the more recent work, and highlights the most promising developments on this topic....

Purpose – What is the role of analysts in reducing agency problems and information asymmetry between stockholders and managers? The purpose of this paper is to confirm the analyst’s role by examining his or her influence on CEO compensation structure. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between women in the board of directors, firm performance and corporate decisions as well as the risk of the firm, debt level, and research and development (R&D). Design/methodology/approach This study investigates a sample of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if human capital information voluntarily provided by German companies is value‐relevant. Design/methodology/approach – By means of word‐based content analysis, human capital information is extracted from German companies’ annual...