Purpose – In France, there seems to be no immediate correlation between the desire to opt for an entrepreneurial career and actually starting or taking over a business. Based on this observation, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the entrepreneurial process and more specifically on its...

Purpose – This paper deals with the relationship existing between the emotional aspect and decision‐making processes. More specifically, it examines the links between emotional intelligence, decision biases and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms. The primary purposes of this paper...

Purpose: This study empirically tests a comprehensive set of relevant factors to explain environmental reporting quality. This study aims to understand whether environmental assurance has a direct effect on “environmental reporting quality”. In addition, this study also aims to examine the...

Purpose: After the COVID-19 outbreak, the Federal Reserve has undertaken several monetary policies to alleviate the pandemic consequences on the markets. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of the Federal Reserve monetary policy on the cryptocurrency dynamics during the COVID19 pandemic....

Purpose: Unlike previous crisis where investors tend to put their assets in safe havens like gold, the recent coronavirus pandemic is characterised by an increase in the Bitcoin purchasing described as risk heaven. This paper aims to analyse the Bitcoin dynamics and the investor response by...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the effect of two CEO characteristics, namely, narcissism and overconfidence on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the moderating effect of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 2,360 UK firms...

This article tries to study the impact of the bank regional manager's emotional bias on the performance of Tunisian banks. This is by taking into account the mediating role of the decentralization of decision-making rights. For this purpose, an empirical study was carried out using a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal hedging strategy of the oil-stock dependence structure. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology consists to model the data over the daily period spanning from January 02, 2002 to May 19, 2016 by a various copula functions to...