Sustainable product innovation is a key issue facing agri-food companies to maintain and increase their competitiveness. Based on sample of 320 international for the period 2002–2017, this paper analyzes role that ownership structure capital play with regard sustainable as well whether these financing decisions differ depending firm's structure. The results indicate family-owned firms show an a...

This paper investigates how multinational firms choose their capital structure in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, like expropriation, corruption and confiscatory taxation, and In our theoretical analysis we find that as political risk increases t...

The paper examines the impact of ownership structure on company economic performance in the largest companies from 12 European nations. Ownership structure is measured by the identity and share of the largest owner. Performance is measured by return on assets, market to book values and sales growth controlling for industry, capital structure and nation effects. We find evidence of a bell-shaped...

The literature on ownership structure in Indian firms does not clearly show how various large shareholdings connected to controlling agency conflicts affect a firm’s outcome. Evidence suggests that shareholders are stronger position keep management more responsible than its dispersed shareholders, thereby positively affecting the This research gap has sparked interest examining relationship bet...

Corporate Governance, Capital Market Discipline and the Returns on Investment* by Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu We analyze the impact of corporate governance institutions, ownership structures and external capital market constraints on company returns on investment by using a sample of more than 19,000 companies from 61 countries across the world. We show that (1) of th...

* General Manager, Finance, CSR Limited. 1 For the purposes of this paper, capital management refers to the process of determining the optimal capital structure of a non-financial company. There are, of course, a number of issues that relate to the optimal capital investment strategy that are not addressed here. 2 A leveraged buy-out (LBO) facilitates equity ownership of a company via a highly-...