We investigate whether directors with multiple outside board directorships are related to corporate financial strategy across firm life cycle stages. Using a large sample of firms from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, we find that when number seats increases, firms' level cash holdings rises, capital expenditure declines, selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses increase...

Firm value is crucial because it can show the company's financial performance, making investors want to invest. This study aimed determine effect of firm on in transportation and logistics companies Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) 2018-2020. The method determining sample this used a purposive sampling method, so number pieces studied was 21 companies. uses multiple linear regression analysis. re...

In this paper, we conduct a succinct review of literature to understand the impact board gender diversity on firm performance and risk. The indicates that effect risk is inconclusive. Many studies indicate presence positive association between firm’s its value, while others document negative relation, still some showing there no significant relation We recommend vast scope for research in area,...

W study the bidding strategies of vertically differentiated firms that bid for sponsored search advertisement positions for a keyword at a search engine. We explicitly model how consumers navigate and click on sponsored links based on their knowledge and beliefs about firm qualities. Our model yields several interesting insights; a main counterintuitive result we focus on is the “position parad...

Motivated by theories of the rm, which we classify as \technological" or \organizational", we analyze the determinants of rm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We nd that, on average, rms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry level, we nd rms in the utility sector are large, perhaps because they enjoy a natural, or o cially sanctioned, ...

Title of Dissertation: INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN THE MARKETPLACE: TWO ESSAYS ON FIRM STRATEGIES AND STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS Michael Donald Pfarrer, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Violina P. Rindova Department of Management & Organization This dissertation consists of two essays that examine the role of information exchange in the marketplace and how firm strategies...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue, how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance. Using different samples most of the studies provide general support for the argument that increase in managerial ownership increases firm performance. Howev...

This paper develops an exchange-network perspective on corporate diversification and proposes two measures of corporate scope: structural closure and structural exposure. Structural closure focuses on exchanges of goods and services inside the firm and proxies for the potential costs of undertaking them through the market instead. By considering exchange relations inside the firm, this measure ...

This paper is essentially a specification on analytical framework of a PhD thesis. The thesis itself is entitled: “Intellectual capital and economic performance of firms in the knowledge-based economy: a close look at evolution of modern enterprises” and is a study that seeks to understand the nature and function of the business firm as it is evolving with the changing today economy. The first ...