investments on firms’ performance, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably … evidence that the levels of FDI in certain regional industries are associated with higher performance indicators of firms’ not …

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This … tends to have positive effects on firm performance, even after controlling for numerous characteristics of the firm and …

to compare their characteristics and performance to that of other public companies. Major findings are that 1) companies …

This paper extends existing research on firm heterogeneity by exploring whether differences in firm performance … covering the period 1993 to 2002, we estimate multivariate regression models comparing the performance of female-owned and male … inferior firm performance characteristics. However, when we control for the ownership structure of the firm and compare female …

We investigate the performance of 95 board members of listed Swiss companies over 12 years. We identify quantitatively … measurable characteristics of board members and test for a relationship between board member characteristics and firm performance …. As a proxy for firm performance, we use the performance of the firm's stock relative to a benchmark index. The number of …

This paper studies the impact of federal state shareholdings on the performance of Russian companies. It differs from … possible implications for company performance. Econometric analysis shows that companies with state ownership generally perform … the performance of companies with different types of state shareholdings. Companies with residual blocks held by the …

attempts to discover if contingencies exist in this relationship that may account for differences in firm performance. The …