Gregor Gossy develops a stakeholder rationale for risk management arguing that firms which are more dependent on implicit claims from their non-financial stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, and employees, prefer conservative financial policies. Dr. Gregor Gossy promovierte bei...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate debt and firm productivity. We add to the existing literature by investigating the contingency effect of institutional quality in the corporate debt-productivity nexus. Using data for 2,084 Chinese listed firms, we find that corporate debt...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Structure of the Book -- Additional Materials -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Capital Structure Theories and its Determinants -- 3 Shari’ah Compliant Equities and Capital Structure -- 4 Establishing a Framework for Comparative Analysis...