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Ownership Structure, Investment Behavior and Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing Industries

Gedajlovic, Eric; Yoshikawa, T.; Hashimoto, Motomi - 2011

Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan's largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese...

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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? : cross-country and panel data analysis

Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-15

This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …

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Finance - growth nexus and banking efficiency : The impact of microfinance institutions

Abrar, Afsheen; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kabir, Rezaul - 2021

This paper investigates the relative importance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) at both the macro (financial …

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Design of an indicator for health and safety governance

Minguillón, Roberto F.; Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2009

Occupational Health and Safety Governance (OHSG) is a branch of Corporate Governance by which the board directs and controls labor risks created by their own enterprise. The OHSG concept is relatively new; unlike Occupational Health and Safety Management, which is mostly related to the work of...

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Design of an indicator for health and safety governance

Minguillón, Roberto F.; Yacuzzi, Enrique - Universidad del CEMA - 2009

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Ownership Structure, Investment Behavior and Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing Industries

Gedajlovic, E.R.; Yoshikawa, T.; Hashimoto, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

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Bank owners or bank managers : who is keen on risk? ; evidence from the financial crisis

Gropp, Reint; Köhler, Matthias - 2010

In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...

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The Influence of Top Management Team’s Corporate Governance Orientation on Strategic Renewal Trajectories

Kwee, Zenlin - 2010

Using the upper echelons perspective together with corporate governance and strategic renewal literature, this paper investigates how top managers' corporate governance orientation influences a firm's strategic renewal trajectories over time. Through both a qualitative analysis (1907-2004) and a...

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The effects of internal governance factors on lending portfolio composition in Islamic banks

Nizar Yousef Ahmed Naim; Nora Azureen Abdul Rahman - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 11 (2023) 3, pp. 1-16

Recent studies indicate that lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks is concentrated towardsdebt-based lending portfolio; however, the ideal lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks should be an equity-based lending portfolio. This article explores the effects of the internal...

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Enterprise-Wide Risk Management in Microfinance Institutions : The ASA Experience

Khan, Saleh - 2014

This paper explores the typical risks that microfinance institutions (MFIs) face in their operations and outlines some … of the steps that ASA, one of the world largest NGO MFI, takes to mitigate them. This discussion is from a practitioner …

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