governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. richard saltman and antonio duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

Using Panel Data methods, this paper examines the impact of institutional investors on corporate governance and corporate performance, based on samples of familial listed companies in China from 2006 to 2008. The research shows that after investing in familial listed companies, institutional investors would play an important role to improve corporate governance. Simultaneously, the proportion o...

This paper investigates the variation in contagion effect of corporate scandals on peers firms with different corporate governance quality. We find that better corporate governance reduces investors’ uncertainty about a firm’s fundamental value and alleviates the contagion effect of scandals. Specifically, the empirical results show that external governance, ownership structure and external aud...

At the time that science and technology (S&T) relations between China and the US were initiated in 1978, there was much interest in the US in having the S&T relationship contribute to the building of a broad “web of relationships” between the two countries. In many ways, this goal has been met. We have seen science and technology make notable contributions to the economic relationships between ...

equate public trust. In this study, we analyze Chinese grassroots organizations’ level of transparency with respect to four aspects: basic information, governance, finance, and activity transparency. We examine factors that may influence transparency and test the effects of transparency on organizations’ donation and grant income. Our findings suggest that Chinese grassroots human service organ...

We are grateful to Christine Beckman. Gerald Davis, Monica Higgins. Muir MacPherson, and Edward Zajac for providing insightful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank Donald Palmer and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their constructive feedback and valuable suggestions on the paper, and we thank Piruze Sabuncu for her assistance in data collection. In this study, we consider the...

Corporate Governance, Capital Market Discipline and the Returns on Investment* by Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu We analyze the impact of corporate governance institutions, ownership structures and external capital market constraints on company returns on investment by using a sample of more than 19,000 companies from 61 countries across the world. We show that (1) of th...

The paper considers the recent trends at the market for corporate control in Ukraine. As a result of the undertaken original research, some very important conclusions have been made. First of all, during 1998-2001 corporate ownership structure in Ukraine became more concentrated, in contrast to such country in transition as Russia. Second, the more concentrated is the ownership structure of Ukr...

Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan’s largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm’s investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese shareholders: foreign investors, investment funds, pension funds, banks and insurance companies, affiliated com...

Constructing the rational knowledge network is an effective means of cooperative innovation organization. But collaborative innovation organization system is relatively complicated, and knowledge itself is latent and unexpected, knowledge network is not comprehensive and accurate. This paper analyzes deeply knowledge network of organization cooperative innovation, and builds a system dynamics m...