Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the literature on the participation of women on Boards of Directors (BD). Design/methodology/approach – The authors review a body of literature (theoretical and empirical words) that analyzes the women’s role on the BD of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether internal attributes of corporate governance such as board size, outside directors, CEO duality, managerial ownership, and ownership concentration affect the performance of Pakistani firms. Design/methodology/approach – Panel...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether capital structure affects the performance of non-financial firms in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – Panel econometric techniques namely pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects, and random effects were used to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between working capital management and firm performance for a sample of 437 non-financial Indian companies. In addition, this paper examines the impact of financial constraints on working capital management-performance...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of export performance within the parameters of the structure-conduct-and-performance (SCP) paradigm, resource-based view (RBV), rational choice (RC) and perceptual view (PV), theoretical templates. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the two-direction relationship between financial firm performance and executive compensation in Thai listed companies; that is, effect of firm performance on executive compensation and the effect of executive compensation on subsequent firm...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of government financial assistance provided to Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This study uses firm-level panel data on more than 2,000 SMEs over a five-year period from the Business Longitudinal...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the top management team (TMT) intangible assets (demographical and managerial experience) diversity which influences firm performance in a diverse industrial context. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses 159 whole TMTs from Latin...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the relationship between board committees and firm performance and the moderating effect of family ownership for public companies in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs publicly available data from financial databases and annual...