Purpose – First purpose of this study is to find out whether the negative relationship between board size and future firm risk persists in China while contemplating all sorts of endogeneity. Secondly, we investigate the role of large shareholders in influencing the managerial decisions of...

Samsung Group's success cannot be attributed to its corporate governance structure, at least thus far. The corporate governance of Samsung has been rather controversial. As the group faces the succession issue the corporate governance has become as crucial as their new products and services....

We explore the implications of directors' networks for company valuation in a concentrated ownership environment and in pyramidal control structures. Using common centrality indexes on a sample of 727 directors serving in 105 Israeli listed firms, we show that the effect is very dependent on the...

This paper examines the determinants of reported goodwill impairment losses by Malaysian listed companies from 2006 to 2010. The results show managers' reporting incentives are significantly associated with the reported impairment losses. The results also show that the effect of “big bath”...

We find that ownership changes much less over time in private firms than in public firms. The average largest shareholder in private (public) Norwegian firms keeps the same stake in 82% (14%) of two consecutive years. In private firms past ownership dominates ownership determinants proposed in...

Legal rules, politics and behavioral factors have all been emphasized as explanatory factors in analyses of the determinants of the concentration of corporate ownership and stock market participation. An extension of standard tax clientele arguments demonstrates that changes in the progressivity...

This paper examines, from the perspectives of the agency-theoretic approach, how ownership concentration impacts technological innovation. We conduct this analysis by allowing the effect to vary according to the identity of the main shareholder and test several hypotheses by employing survey...