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A comparative analysis on the nexus between corruption and firm performance for a selection of Western Balkan countries

Kalaj, Ermira; Golemi, Ela - In: Journal of Financial Crime 31 (2023) 3, pp. 583-593

Purpose This paper aims to focus on analyzing the level of corruption of small- and medium-sized enterprises and their economic performance impact in Western Balkan countries. This study uses survey data from Enterprise Surveys (ES) from 2019, a shared project of the European Bank for...

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Corporate internet reporting and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysia

Sia, Chai J.; Brahmana, Rayenda; Memarista, Gesti - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 2, pp. 153-164

Anecdotal evidence showed that the portion of internet users to the population in Malaysia is relatively higher among developing economies. However, there are not many Malaysian listed companies that use the internet as a platform for financial information disclosure. Perhaps, the managers do...

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CEO power and characteristics on firm performance in Indonesian state-owned enterprisesh

Ahadiat, Ayi; Syaipudin, Usep; Kesumah, Fajrin Satria Dwi - In: Contemporary Economics 17 (2023) 3, pp. 295-310

Financial performance is an important indicator in a company in measuring the level of viability of the company. This study aims to analyze the effect of CEO power (proxied by CEO ownership), and characteristics (CEO educational background and work experience) on firm performance as proxied by...

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Firm performance and family related directors: Empirical evidence from an emerging market

Hendrawaty, Ernie - In: Contemporary Economics 13 (2019) 2, pp. 187-204

Board composition is central to the worldwide corporate governance reforms that have taken place in recent years. The strong emphasis on director independence and board leadership is now part of all corporate governance regimes, including the regimes which has been introduced in Malaysia. It is...

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Does green innovation improve firm performance? Testing the moderating effect of CEO tenure

Lestari, Kurnia Cahya; Soewarno, Noorlailie - In: Contemporary Economics 18 (2024) 2, pp. 192-209

Nowadays, green innovation has become a concern because of the global pressure to do business without ne- glecting environmental sustainability. Thus, this study aims to examine the impact of green innovation (both process and product) on improving firm performance and test whether CEO tenure...

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R&D grants and R&D tax credits to foreign-owned subsidiaries: Does supporting multinational enterprises’ R&D pay off in terms of firm performance improvements for the host economy?

Lenihan, Helena; Mulligan, Kevin; Doran, Justin; … - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 49 (2023) 2, pp. 740-781

The subsidiaries of foreign-owned multinational firms make significant contributions to national Research and Development (R&D) in many host countries. Policymakers in host countries often support subsidiaries’ R&D efforts, through R&D grants and R&D tax credits. A key objective of this...

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Location is everything: Explorative and exploitative learning, non-scale free resources, and firm performance of German companies

Dötschel, Eva; Junge, Sebastian; Guthmann, Tobias - In: Journal of Business Economics 94 (2023) 2, pp. 279-309

. Further, we hypothesize the competition for and the access to non-scale free resources to moderate this relationship. While we … do not find support for the latter, we reveal that the competition for non-scale free resources weakens the relationship … competition for non-scale free resources between companies in the context of exploration–exploitation. We thereby reveal lower …

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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? Evidence from connections to the German Federal Parliament

Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2025

We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset linking politicians and election candidates to the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...

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Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D in product innovation and firm performance

Karbowski, Adam - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) 20 (2019) 6, pp. 1121-1142

innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics literature and the optimisation model, R&D competition, R … price and quality competition are considered. It is showed that R&D cartelisation entails a loss of firm's product … innovation compared with R&D competition. However, profit-maximising firms do not prefer the R&D competition strategy. They …

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Myth or reality? Unveiling the effectiveness of hierarchical CEO succession on firm performance and cash holdings

Sarfraz, Muddassar; He, Bin; Shah, Syed Ghulam Meran; … - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) 22 (2021) 4, pp. 1008-1025

The objective of the study is to contemplate the effectiveness of hierarchical CEO succession and hierarchical CEO succession intensity on SOEs & Non-SOEs performance separately.  Meanwhile, the impact of hierarchical CEO succession on cash holdings has also been analysed. The authenticated data...

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