We study the relationship between institutional ownership and firm performance in Finland. A systems approach is employed to investigate the potential two-way causality between firm performance and ownership structure. Three-stage least squares estimation technique is used to solve for the...

Economic literature had shown the existence of the interrelationship between the financial decisions of the firms and their competitive decisions; either by convenience or by data availability, most of empiric papers addressed separately the influence of both kinds of decisions over firm...

We analyze the long-term effects of divesture and ownership change on corporate performance. We employ a unique data set for a large number of Czech firms spanning the period 1996-2005. We employ a propensity score matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our results, which are...

Using an agency theory perspective, this paper examines the influence of family control on the board size and board independence of Indonesian listed firms. Further, the study also seeks to investigate whether family control explains the association between board structure and firm value. This...

I investigate the effect of employee satisfaction on corporate performance based on an extensive dataset of 114,004 online reviews of Brazil's 1,000 largest listed and unlisted firms from 2013 to 2018 posted at a local subsidiary of Glassdoor. I find that overall employee satisfaction is...

While poor firm performance has been shown to be an important predictor of CEO dismissal, financial performance alone cannot explain the increased incidence of CEO dismissal. The complex and ambiguous relationship between poor firm performance and CEO dismissal is due in part to the uncertainty...

We develop and test a model in which managerial overconfidence offsets the underinvestment problem arising from managerial myopia. Using a three-period investment model in which we capture managerial myopia by hyperbolic discounting, we show that both overconfident owner-managers and...

The study aims at checking the impact on corporate governance mechanism on firm performance of NSE 200 companies by using the existing models that are available. The study reveals that Board Size, Board Meeting and Board Independence are positively influencing the market performance of the firm....

We analyze the long-term effects of firm break-up and ownership change on corporate performance. Our analysis is based on a unique data set for a large number of Czech firms spanning the period 1996-2005. We employ a propensity score matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our...

La literatura económica ha mostrado la existencia de la interrelación entre las decisiones financieras de las empresas y sus decisiones competitivas. Sin embargo, ya sea por conveniencia, o por poca disponibilidad de datos, en muchos trabajos empíricos se han analizado separadamente la...