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, concentration of power does not necessarily result from control enhancing mechanisms; it could also be that some shareholders retain …
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)) matters for firm performance. In Scandinavia there are a number of legal practices, with common political roots, that impinge … on the distribution of corporate control, which accordingly may affect firm performance. This paper examines the return … performance measure marginal q developed by Mueller and Reardon (1993) is used. Marginal q measures the marginal return on capital …
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This paper investigates the entrepreneurial spirit in Swedish listed family firms. We associate family firms with entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper analysis two questions: Do entrepreneurial...
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This paper studies the corporate governance structure among Swedish banks. Who controls the Swedish banks and what characteristics does the Swedish banking sector have? Issues related to corporate governance such as ownership structure, board of directors and control-enhancing mechanisms will be...
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its relation to performance of firms. Specifically, the focus is on the role of institutional owners in the conflict … between controlling shareholders and minority owners. The paper also contributes to the literature on corporate governance and … performance by providing some discussion on the statistical methods used in most empirical investigations. Summing up recent …
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This paper investigates the link between institutional ownership and dividend policy. Utilizing a dividend payout model, which accounts for earnings trends and partial adjustments of dividends, a positive but marginally diminishing relation is found between institutional ownership and dividends....
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a firm’s behaviour and performance have been if a foreign owner had not acquired the firm? The analysis is based on a …
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-over of national assets. In this paper we ask: how would a firm’s behaviour and performance have been if a foreign owner had …
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In this paper the relation between ownership structure, board composition and firm performance is explored. A panel of … Swedish listed firms is used to investigate how board composition affects firm performance. Board heterogeneity is measured as … regression analysis shows that gender diversity has a small but negative effect on investment performance, and the same holds for …
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performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of …
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