The vast majority of research on the relationship between corporate governance and strategic management focuses on the impact of corporate governance on strategic management. In this article we propose a cyclical model, highlighting that strategic decisions can also affect corporate governance through shaping firm ownership structure. We discuss the impacts of strategic decisions on firm owners...

Using hand-collected data, we study the evolution, causes, and economic effects of the pyramidal ownership structure in China’s listed firms over 2001-2008. We quantitatively characterize the use of pyramidal structure by private firms and local state controlled firms. We find that private owners in China show strong incentives to build more extensive pyramids in weak institutional environments...

China has a unique land use system in which there are two types of land ownership, namely, state-owned urban land and farmer collective-owned rural land. Despite strict restrictions on the use rights of farmer collective-owned land, rural land is, in fact, developed along two pathways: it is formally acquired by the state and transferred into state ownership, or it is informally developed while...

Title of Document: MODELING CAR OWNERSHIP, TYPE AND USAGE FOR THE STATE OF MARYLAND Yangwen Liu, Master of Science, 2010 Directed By: Assistant Professor, Cinzia Cirillo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Over the last few decades there has been a great increase in the number of cars in the United States. Given the importance of vehicle ownership on both transport and landuse pl...

This paper investigates the association between a range of corporate governance mechanisms and forward-looking disclosure (FLD) in a low information environment: the Chinese stock markets. It finds that the implementation of certain monitoring and control mechanisms, such as financial expertise on audit committees and independent directors on the board of directors, can improve the extent of FL...

The computational agent model presented in this paper generates prior and retrospective ownership states for an action based on principles from recent neurological theories. A prior ownership state is affected by prediction of the effects of a prepared action, and exerts control by strengthening or suppressing actual execution of the action. A retrospective ownership state depends on whether th...

The purpose of this article is to review the results of research papers conducted in the area of foreign ownership impact on company's performance and to highlight the specifics of this linkage in the environment of transition economies. Several authors have documented greater efficiency of private companies compared to state-owned. According to different studies, an alternative option for tran...

BACKGROUND Suicide rates vary more than 3-fold across the fifty states. Previous ecological studies have pointed, separately, to covariation of suicide mortality with rates of a) household firearm ownership, and b) antidepressant prescriptions. METHODS An ecologic study using panel data from 2001-2005 was used to evaluate the joint and separate association of household firearm ownership and a...

this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...