Prior studies have shown that innovation has a mediating effect on the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. This study compares this mediating effect in developed and developing countries using agency theory and signaling theory. A panel sample of 2,688 firms in...

Corporate disclosure is critical for many stakeholders to make the best decisions possible. Corporate disclosure practices may vary based on corporate attributes. This study focuses on analyzing the influence of corporate attributes on disclosure. We developed a disclosure index using the...

This paper examines the relationship between the number of domestic banks that the firm engages with and firm value and how this relationship is moderated by ownership concentration at low and very high level on a sample of Malaysian family and non-family firms. We find that there is a...

This chapter analyses the relationship between related party transactions (RPT) and firm value and whether independent directors' tenure (IDT) strengthens or weakens this relationship. Further, it examines ownership concentration's role on this moderating effect of IDT in Malaysian family and...

This study examines the financial technology (or FinTech) credit platform literature published between 2017 and 2022, as collected from the Scopus database. It follows the categorization of Imerman and Fabozzi, Lee and Shin, and Reiners for FinTech and credit platforms. In addition, this study...

With the rapid development of mobile applications, the people of China have become increasingly dependent on mobile finance applications such as Alipay, WeChat pay, and some other finance applications. These finance applications seriously affect the number of mobile banking users. Hence, it is...

This paper was conducted to examine whether there was a negative relationship between independent directors’ tenure and firm value which indicated the existence of expropriation due to long tenure of independent directors and whether controlling shareholders’ ownership moderated this...

This paper was conducted to examine whether there was a negative relationship between independent directors' tenure and firm value which indicated the existence of expropriation due to long tenure of independent directors and whether controlling shareholders' ownership moderated this...