The aim of this paper is to examine how family businesses and non-family businesses pay their CEOs differently and the … relationships among family firms, executive pay and corporate governance mechanisms. The empirical results show that compare with … non-family businesses, family businesses tend to grant more fixed compensation and less performance-based pay to their …

Using a hand-collected sample of Italian family and non-family-controlled firms, we investigate the moderating effect … of family ownership on the relation between earnings management and CEO turnover. Consistent with agency theory, we find … being primarily driven by non-family-controlled firms. In family-controlled firms, we find that the positive relation is …

hypothesized that firms run by female managers tend to have larger cash balances. In line with the hypothesis, the results …

management and are instrumental in mitigating the agency conflict between managers and shareholders. My expansive, hand …