The issue of corporate governance has been increasingly popular in recent years. Corporate governance is considered as one of the most critical factors influencing firm performance, especially listed firms that belong to an Index. This paper is aimed at filling the gap by presenting the issue of...

Corporate governance has become one of the most popular phenomena that draw the worldwide attention recently as this issue has significant influences on the performance of almost every business. Regarding banking industry, the adoption of good corporate governance is much more vital, because a...

Risk-taking is a topic that has been studied for many years in finance under the famous slogan in the financial industry "Higher risk, higher return". Nevertheless, empirical results have shown different scenarios. Using a sample of 56 researches with 406 studies covering millions of companies...

Governance plays a crucial role in most activities of socio-economic life. For any organizations, units, businesses or higher, a country, a community, the role of governance becomes more important than ever. For businesses, with globalization taking place and market becoming more competitive...

Purpose – The paper aims at providing insights on the relationship between capital structure and performance of the firm by employing meta-analytical approach to obtain a synthesized result out of controversial studies as well as the sources for such inconsistency.Design/methodology/approach...

Our study investigates the interlink between liquidity, corporate governance and firm value with the adoption of meta-analysis. The final sample consists of 428 studies extracted from 55 papers, covering 632,196 firm-year observations in a worldwide scope. The diversity in data is believed to...

The presence of political connection among firms has been popular in the world because of its potential benefits to performance of these firms. Noticeably, in the backward financial system and highly corrupted countries, the relationship-based firms become more common and better recognized...

Corporate governance is one of the most vital issues in this compound environment at present, which is indicated by the fact that the success or failure of firms strongly depends on performance of the control that Board of Directors and Executive board, take on corporations' activities. This...