This study examines whether a firm's life cycle explains its propensity to engage in corporate tax avoidance. Based on the Dickinson (2011) model of firm life cycle stages and a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that tax avoidance is significantly...

We investigate the association between voluntary formation of a board investment committee (IC) and corporate cash holdings firms over the life cycle for a large sample of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) firms over the 2005–2013 period. We find that IC increases the corporate cash holdings in...

This study examines the association between firm life cycle stages and corporate tax avoidance employing the Dickinson (2011) model of firms' life cycle stages. Based on a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that compared to the shake-out stage of a...

This study examines the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and financial distress and additionally, the moderating impact of firm life cycle stages on that association. Based on a sample of 651 publicly-listed Australian firm-years data covering the 2007–2013...