This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance in Chinese companies. We hand collected ownership data on 1178 non-financial companies with a total of 5815 firm-years from annual reports. Through fixed-effect panel model, this study has the following findings. First, there is a positive relationship between firm performance and institutional ownership in Ch...

the study examines the relationship between the size of firms and their growth in iranian food and beverages industries. the study utilizes iranian industrial data, classified on the base of isic with 4-digit code. the study evaluates the validity of gibrat's law in the selected firms. the validity of the law has been examined by two methods. first, the panel analysis is applied and second...

make or buy decision is one of the main areas of decision making for managers. transaction cost economics (tce), as an influential economic approach to the theory of the firm, tries to put forward a theoretical framework for this important decision. from tce perspective, the greater the asset specificity, the more the behavioral uncertainty and the more the transaction frequency, the more will ...

this study aims at investigating the impacts of mandatory audit firm rotation (mafr) on audit fees and audit market compeition among firms listed on tehran stock exchange (tse). since 2007 firms listed on tse are not allowed to use services of any single audit firm for more than 4 consecutive years. we tested our hypotheses using multivariate regression analysis and mean comparison test. our sa...

when shareholders have agreement about divestiture of company’s share in stock exchange, they decide to change and improve their business ownership structure and the presence of a large shareholder to help divestiture. the present study was aimed to investigate the effect of presence of large shareholder to tends firm to divestiture by a new approach. for this purpose, the propensity score a sa...

safety issues have always been put forward as one of the major problems and primary concerns in construction industries in many countries. this paper will focus on the impact of safety training on safety climate and its relevant factors in two sites of a construction firm. the health and safety executive (hse) guide to safety climate tool that had been validated in iran was used to determine th...

presently, emerging economies are acquiring singular positions all over the world. the complexities of nowadays economy have caused international companies and investors to be of a tendency towards emerging markets for more profitability and growth. this study aims to find the relationships between firm's profitability and growth in iranian manufacturing industry consisting of tehran stock...