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Ownership structure and profitability of listed firms in an emerging market
Kotey, Richard Angelous; Kusi, Baah; Akomatey, Richard - In: Growing Science. Accounting (2019) Online First, pp. 1-16
Motivated by the agency theory and the need to examine the effect of separation of ownership and management, this study examines the determinants of profitability in different firm ownership structures and how different ownership structures impact the profitability of listed firms between 2003...
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Do firms use the trade credit channel to manage growth?
Ferrando, Annalisa; Mulier, Klaas - 2012
While many theories of accounts payable and receivable are related to firm performance, there has not been a direct test whether firms actively use them to manage their growth. We argue that it is not just the accounts payable but also the accounts receivable that matter. While the former help...
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Do Firms Use the Trade Credit Channel to Manage Growth?
FERRANDO, A.; MULIER, K. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2012
While many theories of accounts payable and receivable are related to firm performance, there has not been a direct test whether firms actively use them to manage their growth. We argue that it is not just the accounts payable but also the accounts receivable that matter. While the former help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083144
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Do firms use the trade credit channel to manage growth?
Ferrando, Annalisa; Mulier, Klaas - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 8, pp. 3035-3046
While many theories of accounts payable and receivable are related to firm performance, there has not been a direct test whether firms actively use them to manage their growth. We argue that it is not just the accounts payable but also the accounts receivable that matter. While the former help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679253
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Business Angels and Firm Performance: First Evidence from Population Data
Andersson, Fredrik W.; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2020
Business angels dominate early-stage investment in firms, but research on their investment effects is scarce and is limited by sample selection. Therefore, we propose an algorithm for identifying business angel investments from total population data. We apply the algorithm to study business...
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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity
Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version
The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …
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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …
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Foreign Owners and Plant Survival
Bernard, Andrew B.; Sjoholm, Fredrik - 2003
for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …
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Ownership Structure, Financial Rent and Performance : Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Sector
Chu, Ei Yet - 2008
This paper addresses the interaction relationship between debt financing and ownership structure towards firms' value in Malaysia. Two issues are addressed in this study. The study examines whether managers and controlling large shareholders pursue rent seeking objective through excessive...
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Demystifying the Role of a State Ownership in Corporate Governance and Firm Performance : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Malaysia
Rasli, Amran; Goh, Chin Fei; Khan, Saif - 2013
The aim of this research is to examine the role of state ownership in corporate governance and firm performance. We employed ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares regressions to analyze the effects of state ownership on firm performance. We go beyond existing research on state...
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