corporate support for entrepreneurship is the most important element for the development of corporate entrepreneurship and is considered as one of the main corporate entrepreneurial antecedents. it involves trust in corporate staff and training them for promoting recognition of opportunities, exploring new and valuable resources, innovative productions and profit-making processes. corporate sup...

This important study in Executive Compensation topic investigated the importance of Firm Ownership on the CEO Compensation system in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) companies. This research had compared the CEO Compensation System of the Owner-Managed and the Management-Controlled companies from 2005 to 2010. The research question for this study was: is there a relationship between the CEO C...

Historically, non-financial data, including corporate governance, was not considered in mainstream equity valuation methodologies, analysis and investments. However, past as well as recent corporate scandals have led to a rising acknowledgement within the investor community that governance factors may have the potential to affect corporate performance and by extension corporate valuation. And a...

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulator...

Available online 4 April 2008 How is corporate governance measured? What is the relationship between corporate governance and performance? This paper sheds light on these questions while taking into account the endogeneity of the relationships among corporate governance, corporate performance, corporate capital structure, and corporate ownership structure. We make three additional contributions...

In this paper, we investigate whether firm performance is affected by corporate governance and the change of corporate governance after Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX hereafter). We find that firm performance, on average, is negatively associated with the corporate governance after the passage of SOX. However, the firm performance is not significantly associated with the change of corporate governance...

Companies in different countries have different corporate governance systems. One of the reasons is that the trade cost dealing in the society and other economic factors are different in different countries. View from this angle, corporate governance systems should have the value that can reduce the costs. However, observing the situations of corporate governance in the real society, we will fi...

The more profound global diversification wealth effect for acquiring firm shareholders in the last decade as well as corporate governance characteristics are found varying with the industry affiliations of the acquirers. The divergent corporate governance across industries appears to explain the differential wealth effect. Manufacturing industries benefit the most through globalization but thei...