[PDF] Top 20 The relationship between debt and a firm's performance: the impact of institutional factors

... in the year of 2012 having obtained mixed results. Following the same methodology as Gonzalez (2013), countries were aggregated in three legal origins: first the French civil law countries ... See full document

... differences between different groups (comparison of gender, level of study and country of origin), certain institutional marketing approaches are more frequently used and ... See full document

... verifying the relative im- portance of each level to explain the variation of the ...through the ICC (IntraClass Correlation Index), which represents the variance ... See full document

... that the relevance of each of the three ESG factors has increased between 2015 and ...awareness of ESG factors has developed in response to events such as ... See full document

... Relationship between entrepreneurship dimensions and job performance has been studied in the last decades by many researchers such as industrial psychologies (Alvani, 2006: ...job ... See full document

... one of the objectives of the bank's management, is to increase the realized profit of the shareholder with an emphasis on performance of the ...manage ... See full document

... most of the studies deal with the US market. Research on the educational attainment in combination with the FF perfor- mance in Germany does not ...addresses the importance ... See full document

... approach of cost structure analysis considers the linearity of fixed costs and fixed expenses, sales prices and variable costs per ...approach the accounting break-even point, ... See full document

... wave of shareholder activism began back in 1942 through a rule introduced by the ...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which was the first regulation to allow shareholders to submit ... See full document

... negative impact on firm ...in the South Europe region. By contrast, the better legal protection predominant in Central Europe rendered this institutional mode more costly than ... See full document

... motivation of CSR, prior scholars such as Davis (1960) began to propose a moral motivation of ...to the company but also the right things for companies to apply. The Committee for ... See full document

... considered the American corporate scenario with an increasing diversity, with inclusion of women and minorities in the workforce, and focusing on these criteria as diversity explored ... See full document

... purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and firm ...value. The study is significant in that it makes intellectual capital, ... See full document

... to the shareholders’ wealth ...conflict of interest may emerge between the two groups. The work carried out by Jensen and Meckling (1976) was one of the first to ... See full document

... occur and which adaptations should be made if they do ...sources of incompleteness in employment contracts, raising various types and degrees of enforcement issues, which call for ... See full document

... were the first to expressly address authority within agency ...rights between a principal and an agent, depending on informational advantages and ...Jensen and Meckling, “authority” is ... See full document

... monitor the actions of managers, allowing the firm to achieve a better performance due to lower agency costs (Shleifer & Vishny, 1997; Jensen & Meckling, ...stake of ... See full document

... (1975) and Johanson and Vahlne (1977), view internationalization as a multilateral network development process in which the firm invest resources and gradually acquires knowledge about ... See full document

... 1999) and learning (Anderson, Rungtusanatham, & Schroeder, ...management and customer focus are positively re- lated to process ...resources and properly manage suppliers of certain inputs ... See full document

... final firm-specific factor that may influence the relationship between CEO overconfidence and firm innovation performance is firm ...is the cause or ... See full document