paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of public programs whose aim is to enhance the performance of firms located in … Catalonia (Spain). We compare the performance of publicly subsidised companies (treated) with that of similar, but unsubsidised … the respective performance of each firm. As a result, we find that recipient firms, on average, change their business …

-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore, we analysed the relationship between firm … enhance firm performance, whereas disclosure and transparency has no significant effect on firm performance. We point out that …

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital characteristics and firm performance in engineering … hypothesize curvilinear (taking inverted U-shapes) relations to firm performance. We find little effect of general experience and … firm-specific human capital, but the findings give some support for the curvilinear relation between performance and human …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies …

This paper contributes to the literature on ownership, control and performance by exploring these relationships for … use of dual-class shares have a negative effect on performance. According to our results concentration of ownership has a … negative impact on investment performance and firm value when control instruments that separate votes from capital share are …

innovativeness and performance at the firm level. We formulate a structural equation model based on the relationships between … performance in terms of market growth or profit assessment, on the other hand. Based on a sample of about 2,100 East German firms … cooperation intensity at the local level spurs the innovativeness of firms; whereas in contrast to Porter’s predictions, our …