The current study investigates whether board age diversity affects company financial performance and risk, and whether diverse work-related values held by directors of different ages are the underlying cause of any effects via a sample of listed companies from Turkey, which has a collectivistic...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether female directors have an effect on company financial performance in a patriarchal emerging country that has a collectivistic culture with a substantial gender equality gap and is characterized with a paternalistic management culture. In addition,...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether the presence of female directors with specific attributes has an effect on earnings quality in a patriarchal emerging country with a collectivistic culture and a substantial gender equality gap and where the majority of companies are controlled by...

This study investigates (1) whether board age diversity affects company financial performance and risk and (2) whether diverse values held by directors of different ages is the underlying cause of any such effects via a sample of companies from Turkey, which has a collectivistic culture. The...

Previous literature demonstrates that local cultural values influence the corporate decisions and outcomes of companies headquartered in those locations. Based on this premise, the findings of the current study demonstrate that the conservatism levels of provinces of company headquarters of...

The current study focuses on the conservatism levels of provinces of birth of company chairmen to investigate whether public companies quoted at the Borsa Istanbul between the 2009 and 2017 engage in earnings management with an informative intent. Turkey provides a unique setting to investigate...

This study aims to investigate ownership in Turkish public firms from a different perspective than in previous studies. It investigates various patterns in the interaction of ownership measures and other corporate governance mechanisms. I find that compared to controlled firms, firms that are...

This study investigates how investors in Turkish capital markets react to the announcements of appointments (departures) of busy and expert directors to (from) boards and audit committees of boards of public firms quoted at Borsa Istanbul. The findings suggest that investors in Turkish capital...

This study investigates the market reaction to appointments and departures of independent directors to boards and various board committees, as well as the magnitude of the market reaction based to the expertise and busyness of these directors. The findings suggest that investors in Turkish...