The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between Research and Development outlays (R&D) and firm ownership structure for public corporations listed on the Italian exchange. Using a sample of 369 firm-year observations over the period 2005-2013 and estimating with the...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between some aspects of governance (such as ownership structure and characteristics of the board), the efficiency of intellectual capital and the economic and market performance of a sample of Italian listed companies....

The paper extends previous research on the topic of intellectual capital (IC) and the relationship between ownership concentration (OC) and firm performance. The ambitious goal of this work is to answer three questions: (1) Whether there is a relationship between IC and firm performance; (2)...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial decisions and ownership structure using the control contests on a sample of Italian listed companies.Design/methodology/approach – The analysis adopts a balanced panel data-set of 984 firm-year observations...

Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between the debt and ownership structure of a sample of Italian listed companies in order to measure the role assumed in the control and monitoring of agency costs.Design/methodology/approach: This study examines a balanced...

This study investigates the relationship between agency costs and ownership structure for a sample of listed Italian companies to determine the impact of shareholder coalitions on agency costs. Using a balanced panel dataset of 1,956 firm-year observations for the period 2002−2013, the results...