When a company establishes subsidiaries with capital provided by a third party, the subsidiaries' shareholders include the parent company (controlling shareholders) and minority (noncontrolling) shareholders. When shareholders' interests are divergent, conflicts may arise, causing inefficiencies...

This paper examines the influence of family business groups' affiliated and non-affiliated firms on earnings manipulation on a sample of Pakistani listed firms for the period of 2014 to 2019. The sample of this paper consists of 323 listed firms from the Pakistan Stock Exchange. Data were...

Research on the nature and value of firms’ dynamic capabilities has produced contradictory propositions and findings. Scholars have argued that contingency theorizing has the potential to improve our understanding, as the context in which dynamic capabilities are deployed may affect their...

This paper offers an investigation at a micro-level of entrepreneurship in the business environment. More precisely, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance in the case of the Romanian non-financial listed companies. We use...

The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...

We find that the controlling family holds both the chief executive officer and chair positions in 79% of Norwegian family firms. The family holds more governance positions when it owns large stakes in small, profitable, low-risk firms. This result suggests that the family trades off expected...

Board composition is central to the worldwide corporate governance reforms that have taken place in recent years. The strong emphasis on director independence and board leadership is now part of all corporate governance regimes, including the regimes which has been introduced in Malaysia. It is...