Legal person ownership is the second largest ownership identity in China’s public listed companies, yet it has received limited attention compared to the already extensive research on China’s state ownership. We investigate the relationships between the concentration of legal person...

Based on agency theory [Jensen and Meckling: 1976, Journal of Financial Economics 3: 305–360] how managerial stock ownership affects the survival of initial public offerings (IPOs) is explored in this paper. A sample of 560 IPOs listed in Taiwan is examined using the accelerated failure time...

This paper examines the association between firms' debt financing structure and operating performance. The paper focuses on debt as the firms' loans from banks, which is the general trend of debt financing in Egypt. Firms' operating performance is measured by three operating measures. The...

In essence, the concept of corporate governance refers to the coordination of interests of the various stakeholders of the company: shareholders, managers, employees, creditors, customers, suppliers, state, etc. In every company’s environment there is a set of specific relationships between...

The object of this contribution is to address the question of the ownership of the firm. Both law and economics shape representations of the world: law focuses on " rules and justice; economics focuses on efficiency and allocation. They describe" " common situations and ""objects'' such as firms...

The purpose of this study was to investigate, using data gathered from 325 French-Canadian organizations, the influence of key constructs related to agency, transaction cost and resource dependence theories on the proportion of salary in sales compensation. Level of task programmability,...

This article studies, from an agency perspective, the factors that explain the franchisor decision to integrate versus franchise its outlets. The analysis of a sample of Spanish franchise networks shows that franchising is more likely when: a) the costs of inefficient risk allocation between...

Agency theory emphasizes that separating ownership and control can lead to inefficiencies in corporations, but the literature on strategic delegation points out that the owner will profit from this separation due to advantages from self-commitment. In this paper, both literatures are combined....

This paper introduces and discusses an idea which minimizes gaming or manipulation activities, if payments are linked to results from manipulative methods. The idea is to add nonmanipulable information to manipulable information to improve the evaluation of a given output. A score declining in...