Board Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from China

Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Iranian Firms

According to agency theory, board of directors plays an important monitoring role in reducing information asymmetry and increasing the transparency of financial statements and social responsibility. This research is concerned with examining board diversity and social responsibility of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2011-2015. To do so, a sample of 98 firms was se...

1 Board Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility

Diverse directors may have diverse preferences over firms’ policies or even objectives. As shown by Arrow (1951), diverse individual preferences may fail to univocally aggregate in collective preferences and may consequently lead to arbitrary and volatile decisions. Using the board of directors as a laboratory, we test whether diversity leads to higher performance volatility. We show that firms...

Board Independence, Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

The present study carried out to examine the relationship between ownership structure, board independence and firm performance of eighty listed firms at KSE for the period of 2005-2009. Performance is evaluated with the help of market based and accounting based performance measures. Marris ratio and Tobin‟s Q are used as estimators of market performance, while ROA, ROE has been used as accounti...

Gender Diversity in Boardroom and Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from Hong Kong BY Cheung

Ultimate Privatization and Change in Firm Performance: Evidence from China

We extend the current empirical literature on privatization by exploring the effect of ultimate privatization on the performance of Chinese listed companies. Ultimate privatization is defined as the incidence of transferring the ultimate control of a state-owned company from the government to private owners. Using a sample of 127 Chinese listed companies that have had controlling blocks transfe...