edited by Kose John, Anil K. Makhija, Stephen P. Ferris.
Front Cover -- Global Corporate Governance -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Financial Performance and the Competitive Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Introduction -- Motives for Joining the Children's Food and Beverage Initiative -- Altruism -- Avoid Regulation -- Feel Good Cosmetic Action -- Hurt Competitors -- This Social Responsibility Will also Force the Company to Be More Efficient and Resourceful -- Data and Methodology -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Regulation and the Ownership Structure of European Listed Firms -- Introduction -- Sample and Data Description -- Sample Construction -- Measures of Ownership Concentration -- Measures of Regulation and Shareholder Protection -- Firm Characteristics and Further Control Variables -- Ownership Structures of European Listed Firms -- Regulation and Ownership Structures -- Empirical Design -- Shareholder Protection and Overall Ownership Concentration -- Shareholder Protection and Concentration of Different Investor Types -- Strategic versus Institutional Investors -- Differentiating Independent and Grey Institutional Investors -- Robustness Tests -- Sample Selection Issues -- Regulation, Ownership Structure, and Firm Performance -- Empirical Design -- Empirical Results -- Robustness Tests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- SAMPLE COMPOSITION -- CROSS-CHECK OF TOB OWNERSHIP DATA -- VARIABLE DESCRIPTION -- Ownership Variables -- Measures of Regulation and Shareholder Protection -- Other Country Characteristics -- Firm Characteristics -- Determinants of Corporate Leverage in Publicly Listed GCC Companies - Conventional versus Sukuk -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Conventional Leverage -- Sukuk and Islamic Capital Structure -- Hypotheses -- Data -- Results and Discussions -- Conventional Determinants of Conventional Leverage.
