Purpose: This study aims to identify and discuss educational practices of a selected set audit firms operating in Turkey within the scope corporate transparency reports. Methodology: To address basic research question, sample 52 firm disclosures reports are examined, statistical analyses conducted through SPSS. Results: Audit affiliated with international bodies provide comparatively longer per...

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a “glass ceiling”, whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require data on productivity, on the prefere...

When business writers and consultancies advocated their management-by-buzzword recommendations of the 1980s and 1990s, expatriats at multinational firms were mocked for management by helicopter: expats would be flown in by surprise, swirl up much dust upon landing, and be lifted out for replacement before the dust had settled. In their monograph Multinational firms, innovation and productivity ...

This paper investigates the impact of new firms’ quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries generate larger direct and ove...

This study aims to examine the effect of reputation public accounting firm and delay in independent auditor's report on timeliness submitting financial statements. research is a sample study, which includes 225 companies from 510 manufacturing sector during 2017-2019 observation year. The was selected by simple random sampling technique, size determined slovin formula. analytical method used lo...

Business groups are industry exemplars whose investment decisions and social responsibility commitments important for future sustainable development. We use data from China’s listed firms 2012 to 2018 investigate the effects of ESG-related disclosure on corporate efficiency by comparing heterogeneity in between group-affiliated standalone firms, as well member within at different pyramid levels...

This dissertation consists of three essays that examine banking and corporate finance in developing countries. Specifically, it explores the theoretical and empirical implications of open capital markets, foreign bank entry, and the role of bond markets during banking crises. Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of opening capital markets using a theoretical model that incorporates both foreign and do...