shareholders and performance, a phenomenon which might be explained in terms of private appropriation of benefits. … importance incites governments to insure the stability and the good performance of their banking systems. Accordingly, several … researchers pay a particular attention to banking governance. Specifically, shareholders-managers’ convergence of interests and …

protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms …, Johnson and Shleifer (2001) that securities-market regulation can create substantial value for minority shareholders in a …

European Union recommends that companies in the Member States annually evaluate the performance of their boards. The degree of … that need to be put into place to ensure the suitability of boards of directors and to evaluate the performance of both the …

We study the empirical relationships among corporate governance, strategic diversification and financial performance in … productive activities and their sources of income. There are no trends, regarding strategies and performance, related to the …

performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases … such as the lack of property rights, the abuse of minority shareholders or contract violations. But in order that corporate …

syndication, and also facilitate board representation of the investors. The final study documents a significant performance gap …

This paper focuses on the impact of the corporate governance, using a plethora of measures, on the performance of US … and bank performance. Results show that the board size asserts a negative effect on performance consistent with the … conflicts that large boards suffer from. We also find a negative association between operational complexity and performance …

compensation and shareholders return, firm characteristics, CEO characteristics, board of directors and shareholders … firm performance accounts for less than 5%. It is also found that the CEO characteristics, board of directors’ structures …, and shareholders features are related with the CEO pay. The policy implications of these results are then derived. …

We trace the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI … characteristics, ownership type, competition and regulation on the MFI's outreach to poor clients and its financial performance. The … shareholder firms in financial performance and outreach is found. …

The idea that the governance mechanisms affect firms’ performance is well acknowledged in management literature. The … and that centrality in the network enhances financial performance. …