Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of board characteristics on firm performance while also exploring the influential mechanisms that help Chinese listed companies establish effective boards of directors and strengthen their corporate governance mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach...

We consider data subjected to middle censoring where the variable of interest becomes unobservable when it falls within an interval of censorship. A necessary and sufficient condition is developed for the equivalence of self-consistent estimators and NPMLEs. Finding NPMLE by dividing the data...

The Weibull proportional hazards model is commonly used for analysing survival data. However, formal tests of model adequacy are still lacking. It is well known that residual-based goodness-of-fit measures are inappropriate for censored data. In this paper, a graphical diagnostic plot of...

The trafficking of persons -- The migration of the African labour force -- Footbal's regulatory space and the role of FIFA -- Identifying and evaluating the performance of FIFA's anti-trafficking regulations -- Evaluating the social, systemic, and structural factors affecting FIFA's...