Corporate board is considered as effective corporate governance mechanism (CGM) of family firms (FF) playing a critical monitoring role and enhancing performance. FFs are, in general, quite different from non-FFs in the ownership structures, family shareholders’ involvement and control on the...

Purpose – The paper aims at providing insights on the relationship between capital structure and performance of the firm by employing meta-analytical approach to obtain a synthesized result out of controversial studies as well as the sources for such inconsistency.Design/methodology/approach...

Risk-taking is a topic that has been studied for many years in finance under the famous slogan in the financial industry "Higher risk, higher return". Nevertheless, empirical results have shown different scenarios. Using a sample of 56 researches with 406 studies covering millions of companies...