Purpose: Are board ties among competitors harmful to customers? The prevalent assumption on board ties among competitors is that they harm customer benefits. This study examines the mechanism by which board ties with competitors result in an outcome conducive to customers....

This article investigates how care workers understood ownership and experienced employee-ownership through the exercise of workplace participation and control. To date much of the scholarly work has focused on formal governance arrangements, types of participation and the limitations of worker...

Recently, patients, insurers, and regulators have increasingly focused on hospital quality (the inverse of patient mortality) in the U.S. Using California hospital data from 2006 through 2020, we find evidence that the effects of compensation and competition on hospital quality differ by...

This study investigates the effect of ownership type (state and family ownership versus non-state and non-family ownership) on labour cost stickiness in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The study examines the labour cost stickiness in state and family businesses versus...

We study recent developments on the ownership of listed German firms. Based on a large panel with 9,501 firm-year observations spanning the period 2006-2021, we document four key results: (i) holdings of institutional investors gain in importance in German listed equity, (ii) foreign investors,...