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The Effects of Private Equity on Targets: Majority versus Minority Investments

Battistin, Erich; Bortoluzzi, Paolo; Buttignon, Fabio; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2013

This paper investigates the differential effects on performance of majority and minority Private Equity (PE … than their control counterparts, and this is more so for minority deals. We also show that PE targets experience a … acquire a minority interest in family firms or, to some extent, when they take a majority stake in non-family firms. These …

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Contractors networks in public procurement projects: The case of the construction industry in the Veneto region

Sedita, Silvia Rita; Apa, Roberta - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", …

Our work aims to analyze the inter-organizational relationships of contractors in public procurement projects. We investigate how a firm’s network position affects its performance in public procurement practices, measured as the average value of projects won by the firm. To accomplish this...

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Industrial Firms in the South of Italy

La Malfa G. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2011) 4, pp. 815-830

Fondazione Ugo La Malfa has recently produced the first systematic Analysis of Budget data of medium and large size manufacturing companies located in the Italian South. The study, carried in cooperation with the Research Department of Mediobanca, includes 3 sets of data: - budget data for...

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The Evolution of the Organisational Structure of Apulia's Footwear Industry

de Felice A.; Martucci I. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2009) 3, pp. 515-534

The peculiarity of local production systems is the cultural background of knowledge and cooperative behaviours that lead not only each company and its operating subjects, but the components as a whole, to the achievement of economic benefits that are the result of economies external to the firm...

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Firm Performance and the Nature of Agency Problems in Insiders-controlled Firms: Evidence from Pakistan

Abdullah, Fahad; Shah, Attaullah; Khan, Safi Ullah - In: The Pakistan Development Review 51 (2012) 4, pp. 161-183

, whereas it decreases with firm size, market risk, firm-specific risk, and ownership percentage of institutional shareholders. …

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Crifo, Patricia; Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Pekovic, Sanja - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014

This paper analyzes how different combinations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) dimensions affect corporate economic performance. We use various dimensions of CSR to examine whether firms rely on different combinations of CSR, in terms of quality versus quantity of CSR practices. Our...

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Independent directors: less informed, but better selected? New evidence from a two-way director-firm fixed effect model

Cavaco, Sandra; Crifo, Patricia; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014

This paper develops a two-way director-firm fixed effect model to study the relationship between independent directors' individual heterogeneity and firm operating performance, using French data. This strategy allows considering and differentiating in a unified empirical framework mechanisms...

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Firm Performance when Ownership is very Concentrated: Evidence from a Semiparametric Panel

Hamadi, M.; Heinen, A. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2015

We consider the effect on performance of very large controlling shareholders, who are mostly organized in voting blocks …

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Multinational Networks, Domestic,and Foreign Firms in Europe

Merlevede, Bruno; Zwaan, Matthijs De; Lenaerts, Karolien; … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2015

This paper introduces two datasets, AUGAMA, a panel of European firms for the period 1996-2011, and EUMULNET, a European Multinational Network data set. These datasets are constructed on the basis of the Amadeus database issued by Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing. We document the process of...

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Pricing transparency and performance in the microfinance industry: Truth-in-lending, profitability, scale, and funding

Argüello, Nicolás; Delalex, Isabelle; Limvorasak, Sun; … - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°11 (2013) 1, pp. 173-204

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