Managerial ties and access to finance in weak institutional contexts: Does CEO duality matter?

CEO Duality and Firm Performance during China’s Institutional Transitions

Does CEO duality – the practice of one person serving both as a firm’s CEO and board chair – contribute to or inhibit firm performance? Agency theory suggests that CEO duality is bad for performance because it compromises the monitoring and control of the CEO. Stewardship theory, in contrast, argues that CEO duality may be good for performance due to the unity of command it presents. The empiri...

Does Marriage Matter to Women and Men?

Purpose: the transformation of marriage patterns and family formation by following transition from traditional society to a modern society causes changes in goals, function of family formation. The aim of this study was comparative investigation of the attitudes of single and married individuals about marriage function. Materials and method: the study performed by qualitative method. The statis...

Does Institutional Memory Matter?

A fter 55 years of service, Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield quietly stepped down from his position as Director of the Heart Station, Durham Veterans Administration Hospital affiliated with Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Greenfield was also the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Chairman of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology Emeritus, and one of my most important mentors. This marks an event that ...

Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts

Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention to bodies in sport organizations; to offer arguments why they sho...

Managerial Optimism and Corporate Finance