between board governance and perceived firm financial performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study was cross … performance. while the direct relationship between board governance and firm financial performance without the mediation effect of … performance is very much weakened by the presence of intellectual capital in the model – confirming that the presence of …

direct effects of the program on firm performance. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs. Our analysis yields …

improves cooperation and performance. Using a German longitudinal linked employer-employee dataset, we show that employees in …

corporate performance. In order to fill this gap, we analyse interlocks between the 30 largest listed German companies from 2001 … to 2005 for testing their impact on corporate performance. Our findings indicate that board appointments of executives … harm firm performance. However, those interlocks seem to lower managing director compensation of the appointing firm …

performance. Further, we used the pooled fractional probit estimator, recently introduced by Papke & Wooldridge, an approach that … that these variables are not per se positively related to export performance, but rather to time-constant characteristics …

It is obvious that the performance of firms hinges upon the dynamics of both industry- and firm-specific factors. A … performance, how much do these two groups of factors respectively predict firm performance? To date, performance differences among … comprising 526 firms across various construction-related sectors, the sector-by-sector firm performance variation that is …

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This … tends to have positive effects on firm performance, even after controlling for numerous characteristics of the firm and …

to compare their characteristics and performance to that of other public companies. Major findings are that 1) companies …-similar firms; 2) productivity and profitability levels rise as broad-based plans are adopted, and 3) average compensation levels …