Environmental Performance: Does Corporate Governance Matter?

Does Corporate Governance Really Matter?

We examine the relation between a broad set of corporate governance factors and various measures of managerial behavior and organizational performance. Using a sample of 2,126 firms we distill 38 structural measures of corporate governance (e.g., board characteristics, stock ownership, anti-takeover variables etc.) to 13 governance factors using principal components analysis. For a wide set of ...

Corporate governance and environmental performance and disclosures

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilizing panel data analysis, namely system-GMM estimators, to obtain unbia...

Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs

The paper focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance performance in relation to business sustainability in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. Corporate Governance is understood as a key element when achieving economic performance as well as growth enhancing the investors’ trust. It also makes it possible to create structures supporting the determination, checking...