In this paper, we examine the effects of ownership concentration and board characteristics on the performance of listed firms domiciled in Jordan, one of the main emerging markets in the Middle East. Employing 2SLS regressions on a sample of 103 firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for...

We use a total of 1171 estimates extracted from 34 previous studies and perform a meta-analysis to examine the relationship between ownership structures and firm performance in the Czech mass-privatized firms. We find that, in contrast to the remarkable effect of foreign ownership on firm...