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Board diversity and firm performance: the Indonesian evidence

Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the associations between diversity of board members and financial performance of the firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Three demographic characteristics of board members—gender, nationality, and age—are used as the proxies for diversity. Using a sample...

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Earnings management surrounding CEO turnover: evidence from Korea

Choi, Jong-Seo; Kwak, Young-Min; Choe, Chongwoo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article examines the empirical relation between CEO turnover and earnings management in Korea using a sample of 317 CEO turnovers and 634 non-turnover control firms during the period of 2001-2008. We classify CEO turnovers into four types depending on whether the departure of outgoing CEO...

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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from Indonesia

Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between gender diversity on management boards and financial performance of Indonesian listed companies. We conduct cross-sectional regression analysis based on a sample comprising 92.4 percent of public firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX)....

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Relationship between Corporate Governance Indicators and Firm Value: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange

Javed, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore, we analysed the relationship between firm-level value as measured by Tobin’s Q and total...

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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Results from Greek Firms

Toudas, Kanellos; Karathanassis, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper, we construct a Governance Index for a sample of Greek companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange. We then classify firms, using each firm governance index, into three governance portfolios. Furthermore, the Fama and French model, extended to include a momentum variable, is...

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Государственные пакеты акций в российских компаниях: происхождение, типы и влияние на результаты деятельности

Muravyev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper studies the impact of federal state shareholdings on the performance of Russian companies. It differs from most similar studies in two respects. Firstly, it focuses on mixed ownership companies rather than conventional state enterprises. Secondly, it distinguishes between several...

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Firm age and performance

Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

As firms grow older, their profitability seems to decline. We first document this phenomenon and show that it is very robust. Then we offer two non-exclusive explanations of why firms may age. First, corporate aging could reflect a cementation of organizational rigidities over time. Consistent...

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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition

Bischoff, Oliver - 2015

This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...

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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms

Simačev, Jurij V.; Kuzyk, Michail; Feygina, Vera - 2013

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...

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Quality of governance and bank valuation in Russia: An empirical study

Bokov, Vassily; Vernikov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

variable. As for explanatory variables, we put together a set of proxies for quality of bank governance and management, such as ….g. degree of Board independence, qualification of external auditors), stability of bank’s governing bodies (Management Board and … bank, stability of the governing bodies, involvement of well-established external auditors and also that strategic …

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