Previous studies conclude that bank ownership in developed markets improves firms' performance while in large emerging markets it promotes firm access to bank loans and lowers performance. We examine the effect of bank ownership on firms' performance and their access to bank loans in Egypt. We...

The objective of this study is to examine the relative importance of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors to bank profitability in the MENA and EU regions. The panel data cover the years 2006-2012 for 945 commercial banks. The discriminant analysis is used for estimating Z-scores that...

The role of stakeholder frameworks in the success of business and society has recently become a crucial area of academic research. The purpose of this paper is to show the close compatibility between relatively strong banking industries and the values of stakeholder systems. Since the late...