We analyze whether financial constraints of Brazilian firms are alleviated by ownership structure. More specifically, we study whether the presence of nonfinancial firms as shareholders of Brazilian firm mitigates financial constraints. We find that the presence of nonfinancial firms as...

This paper aims to examine the influence of firm attributes on Corporate Sustainability Performance (CSP) of Brazilian firm under the Stakeholder and Agency theoretical frameworks. Logit panel data models were estimated for a sample of 2,685 firm-year observations of 327 firms in the period...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and firm performance, taking into account firm value and financial performance, in an emerging market - Brazil.Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was conducted to...

En el presente trabajo estudiamos la influencia sobre la performance de las empresas cotizadas españolas entre 2007 y 2009 del número de consejos de administración a que pertenecen sus consejeros independientes. Nuestros resultados ponen de manifiesto una relación no lineal como consecuencia...

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of CEOs' overconfidence on corporate R&D. We analyze a sample of 766 firms from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands between 2008 and 2013. We use three measures of managerial overconfidence: the press coverage of...