The conventional view in accounting is that diversification increases audit complexity and, in turn, audit fees. Conversely, the coinsurance effect of diversification hypothesis suggests that combining multiple business segments with imperfectly correlated earnings provides a coinsurance effect...

Italien und Deutschland sind sich sehr ähnlich hinsichtlich des hohen Anteils von Familienunternehmen und ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Wirtschaft. Das ZEW Mannheim legt in dieser Studie interessante Zahlen dazu vor.

The U.S. personal bankruptcy system functions as a bankruptcy system for small businesses as well as consumers, because debts of non-corporate firms are personal liabilities of the firms' owners. If the firm fails, the owner has an incentive to file for bankruptcy, since both business debts and...

Sind die Mitbestimmungsrechte der deutschen Belegschaft bei Umwandlung in eine SE geschützt? Oder besteht Handlungsbedarf, wie es der letzte Koalitionsvertrag angekündigt hat? Dies hat die Stiftung Familienunternehmen in einem Gutachten untersuchen lassen. Autor ist Professor Christoph...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

The choice of legal form affects many aspects of the company's operation and is one of the key decisions that an entrepreneur must make. In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of six legal forms of companies in terms of efficiency, indebtedness, growth and risk. Based on 72,596...

In this article, I empirically examine whether the performance of a chain-affiliated establishment is affected by its organizational form. Using cross-sectional data on the movie theater industry, I find evidence that performance is higher in a company-owned theater than in a franchised one,...

This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...

This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...

Die Befragung unter Familienunternehmen aller Größenklassen hat ergeben: Der langfristige Erhalt des Unternehmens ist das wichtigste Motiv für die Gründung einer Stiftung. Die Studie zeigt, dass Stiftungslösungen sehr passgenau einsetzbar sind. Die Stiftung Familienunternehmen hat die...

Der Mangel an Risikokapital bremst Investitionen und nachhaltiges Wachstum und beeinträchtigt die Krisenrobustheit der Unternehmen und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Stabilität. Neue und flexiblere Rechtsformen für die Beteiligungsfinanzierung können die Kapitalaufbringung der...

We study the distortions to aggregate output created by the differential tax treatment of corporations and pass through entities. We develop an industry equilibrium model in which the legal form of organization is an endogenous choice for firms facing trade off between tax treatment of business...

Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...

By double taxing the income of corporate firms but not unincorporated firms, taxes can play an important role in a firm's choice of organizational form. The sensitivity of the organizational form decision to tax rates can also be used to approximate the efficiency cost of the corporate income...

Social enterprises are regarded as a vital solution to the pressing problem of socio-economic inequality and play a crucial role in the delivery of public goods and services. Ernest Lim argues that social enterprises in four leading Asian jurisdictions - India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia...

Writing as a political theorist, Abraham Singer begins his book, The Form of the Firm on the premise that despite public and political fixation on corporations, historically, there has been a dearth of literature on the subject from the disciplines of political theory and philosophy. Singer...

This article specifically addresses the theme of revitalisation of Australian law in the facilitation of purpose-based companies. It is the second of two articles on purpose-based governance in the charitable and for-profit spheres. Building on the first article, this article critically analyses...

This paper demonstrates that shareholder ownership, a sacred cow of business, is a myth. According to our legal system, shareholders do not own the Modern Corporation itself, nor do they own the corporate assets or profits. While this finding raises many important questions, the focus of this...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

In Ukraine, entrepreneurship started forming in the absence of the previous experience of its legal regulation in connection with the long socialist period. The relationship between individuals and organisations that have merged in one corporation needs special regulation, and one of the means...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

We study the distortions to aggregate output created by the differential tax treatment of corporations and pass through entities. We develop an industry equilibrium model in which the legal form of organization is an endogenous choice for firms facing trade off between tax treatment of business...

U.S. businesses can choose to be C-corporations or pass-through entities in the forms of S-corporations, partnerships (notably LLCs), and sole proprietorships. C-corporate status conveys benefits from perpetual legal identity, limited liability, potential for public trading of shares, and...

Corporate versus pass-through status trades off benefits (perpetual identity, limited liability, public trading, earnings retention) against tax wedges, estimated from U.S. taxes on corporate profits, dividends, and partnership income. In regressions, C-corporate economic shares decline with the...

U.S. businesses can choose to be C-corporations or pass-through entities in the forms of S-corporations, partnerships (notably LLCs), and sole proprietorships. C-corporate status conveys benefits from perpetual legal identity, limited liability, potential for public trading of shares, and...

A dynamic stochastic occupational choice model with heterogeneous agents is developed to evaluate the impact of a corporate income tax reduction on employment. In this framework, the key margin is the endogenous entrepreneurial choice of the legal form of organization (LFO). A reduction in the...

Using a sample of 85 Delaware master limited partnerships (“MLPs”) from 2004 to 2016, we examine the relation between cash dividend policy and the strength of corporate governance measured by contractual governance provisions, such as fiduciary waiver, mandatory distributions, and voting...