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Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In … addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on … partial effects of corporate governance on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating both partial and …
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance … quality affect firm-level innovation, utilising a dataset for 1,400 non-financial US-listed companies. Using two-way cluster …
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potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction … Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and … widely defined and innovation, taking into account the interactions between governance and market structure as well as …
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Traditional economic studies of innovation, built on the contribution of Schumpeter, cannot explain why firms of the … same size and market power can show largely different innovation performances. Contrastingly, the literature on corporate … governance provides some useful insights for understanding corporate innovation activity, to the extent that such literature …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of corporate governance as a major factor affecting the growth performance of the private sector in MENA countries. For this purpose both country-specific assessments, carried out by World Bank-IMF teams (so-called ROSC’s assessments) and...
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In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...
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The publications about the transition of French corporate governance are controversial fluctuating between proposing the integration of socioeconomic qualities, to the fragmentation of different and persistent systems by the interdependence of their attributes, or the predominance of the...
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The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...
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Corporate Governance deals with the ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investments. This paper analyses the effects of legal systems and accounting conservatism on corporate governance. The U.K. and American corporate governance...
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Since banks are among the most important sources not only of finance but also of external governance for firms, the corporate governance of banks is a crucial factor for growth and development. Despite its importance, this topic has been explored only by a few studies. While some authors...
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