The aim of this research is to explore the relationship of corporate governance with firm risk. This study establishes a link between corporate governance variables and firm risk for a sample of 106 Pakistani firms over a time of six years (20052010). Based on the estimation results, family control and bank control have negative impact on the firm risk whereas ownership structure and chairman/C...

Prior studies consistently report higher explanatory power (R) for firm-specific returns-earnings models than for pooled models. The improvement in R by adding firm-specific coefficients to returns-earnings regressions is cited as evidence that price responses to earnings news vary with certain firm-specific characteristics. We argue that relying on R as a criterion to evaluate competing return...

Article history: Received 7 November 2013 Accepted 30 March 2014 Available online 26 April 2014 The decentralized OTC market is extremely illiquid and opaque in comparison with the exchange-listed stock market. Although liquidity risk has been well documented in the finance literature, little is known about how liquidity risk affects the stocks traded in the decentralized OTC market. In this st...

The empirical results derived from our fixed effects model provide no support for a linkage between a CEO's stock option grant and future firm risk. We find, using the panel corrected error term methods (PCSE) that control for the heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation, that current period stock option awards do have a positive effect on future firm risk. From the PCSE model we also find that t...

We provide a comprehensive comparison of strategic alliances and acquisitions, tackling the question of whether these transactions are substitutes or complements. We find evidence that the decision to enter a strategic alliance rather than an acquisition is determined by firm specific characteristics representing risk, CEO remuneration and external corporate governance mechanisms. Strategic all...

We address explicitly the issue of risk in the theory of the firm. To that end, we present a model in which the shareholders’ portfolio selection of assets and the decisions of the firm are jointly determined through the market process. The model allows to study the role of markets and prices on the type of risky activities undertaken by a firm and the allocation of random profit among sharehol...

A risk-averse price-setting firm which knows the quantity demanded at the status quo price but has imperfect information otherwise may choose not to change it although an otherwise identical risk-neutral firm would do so, provided the variance of the firm's subjective probability distribution over quantities demanded as a function of price displays a kink at the status quo. This is equivalent t...

New product development (NPD) is a major driver of firm growth and sustainable competitive advantage, yet risks are intrinsic in NPD in all industries. Thus understanding, identifying, managing, and reducing risk is of strategic importance for firms. In this research, we synthesize and build on previous research, and propose a three-dimensional risk management framework for NPD. We empirically ...

The paper discusses the significance of firm specific knowledge and skills resources among employees, discusses strategies for measurement, and reports the results of an empirical study of learning and competence acquisition. First, the concept of firm specific competences as originally developed within neo-classical human capital theory is discussed. It is argued that the conceptualisation wit...