This paper studies CEO re-appointment and succession events in listed family firms with an incumbent family CEO in France, Germany and the UK over 2001-2016. The paper explores whether family firms with a founder CEO are more likely to engage in earnings management pre-event than other family...

This article examines recent literature on corporate boards and the interplay between director gender and CEO turnover and how it affects firm performance after CEO turnover. The primary focus is board gender diversity and CEO job embeddedness in entrepreneurial firms. This article discusses...

This paper reports the outcome of an empirical study on the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Nigeria. SMEs are the backbone of developing economies but the sector is found to be underperforming in Nigeria due to poor...

The objective of the study is to contemplate the effectiveness of hierarchical CEO succession and hierarchical CEO succession intensity on SOEs & Non-SOEs performance separately. Meanwhile, the impact of hierarchical CEO succession on cash holdings has also been analysed. The authenticated data...

In zahlreichen Volkswirtschaften existieren heute genossenschaftliche Finanzverbünde. Zwar stimmen deren Gründungsideen überein. Doch im Laufe der Jahrzehnte haben sich durchaus Unterschiede in den Governancestrukturen, in den Strategien und in den Geschäftsmodellen heraus gebildet....

We examine the influences of top management succession on firm strategies in the case of innovation. Our main results show that top manager changes result in less innovation in Chinese listed companies. The evidence supports the hypothesis that succession events exert much pressure on managers...