The Impact of Ownership on Corporate Performance: The Case of the UAE

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Elsayed Kandil ◽  
Minko Markovski
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Government Ownership ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractThis study attempts to identify whether government ownership has an effect on corporate performance, such as Return on Assets (ROA), Price to Book value, and Profits for a sample of 102 listed companies on the UAE stock exchanges and a subsample of 17 banks listed on the same bourses over a period of 31 quarters. In the case of the sample of 102 companies, government ownership has a positive impact on some of the corporate performance indicators, as well in the banking subsample. In addition, the analysis evaluates the impact of state ownership on debt accumulated across the two samples. The results indicate that state ownership reduced the need to accumulate debt in general across the larger sample. However, focusing on banks, state ownership facilitates borrowing and accumulating debt. The results point to the positive effect of state ownership on corporate performance. Further, state ownership eases constraints on banks’ borrowing as it boosts confidence in the outlook, facilitating higher ratings and cheaper sources of funding. In the case of the UAE, similar to some other countries, where there is a strong trend toward government ownership in listed companies and banks, it has a positive effect on their performance for the period 2008–2016, i. e., there is a positive relationship between the block-holder ownership and firms’ performance, subject to efficiency control measures.

scholarly journals The Impact of Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Performance Indicators in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hanaa A. El-Habashy
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Accounting Conservatism ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Accounting Performance ◽  
Conservative Accounting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to investigate the impact of conservative accounting on corporate performance indicators of Egyptian firms. A sample of balanced data for the 40 most active non-financial companies was collected in the period 2009-2014 to test hypotheses. Panel regression models were used for data analysis. Givoly & Hayn (2000) indicator is used as a benchmark for measuring accounting conservatism. The corporate performance indicators used in this study are return-on-assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) representing accounting performance measures, as well as Tobin’s Q which measures market performance. The results of the research show that accounting conservatism has a significant positive impact on corporate performance indicators. This reflects the positive effect of corporate performance on shareholders that leads to a strong corporate financial position. To the best of our knowledge, no study has been conducted in Egypt as an emerging economy.

scholarly journals Can the Famous University Experience of Top Managers Improve Corporate Performance? Evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6975
Author(s):  
Weifeng Xu ◽  
Qingsong Ruan ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business Complexity ◽  
Positive Effect

With the continuous improvement of China’s overall education level, the number of top managers with famous university experience in listed companies has been increasing. The question then becomes whether the performance of the listed companies is better if there are more top managers with famous university experience in the top management team (TMT). Based on the sample of listed companies in China from 2008 to 2018, we adopted the two-way fixed effect model and panel propensity score matching (Panel-PSM) methodology to examine the impact of top managers with famous university experience on corporate performance and its mechanism. We found that the higher the proportion of top managers with famous university experience in the TMT, the better the corporate performance will be, and this positive effect is larger in companies with high business complexity. We also found that this effect is mediated by overconfidence of the TMT. The proportion of top managers with famous university experience in the TMT will inhibit the overconfidence of the TMT, which will ultimately benefit corporate performance.

scholarly journals The Impact of Operational Capabilities on Corporate Performance: Evidence from Listed Companies in the Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock Farming, Fishery Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Maoguo Wu ◽  
Daimin Lu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Operational Capabilities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

In China, the agriculture, forestry, livestock farming, fishery (AFLF) industry is the basis of all industries. However, the overall development and performance level of listed companies in the AFLF industry is lower than the overall market level. According to previous literature, there is generally a positive impact of operational capabilities on the corporate performance of listed companies, but the impact on listed companies in the AFLF industry has not been investigated. This study attempts to fill in the gap by empirically analyzing the impact of operational capabilities on the corporate performance of listed companies in the AFLF industry in China. Based on a panel data set of 43 listed companies, this study performs regressions using a fixed effect model and a threshold panel model. The results show that there is a positive correlation between the operational capabilities and the corporate performance of listed companies in the AFLF industry, but different indicators that represent operational capabilities have different impacts on corporate performance. Based on the empirical results, this study puts forward corresponding suggestions for listed companies in the AFLF industry and policy makers.

scholarly journals Green Bonds vs Regular Bonds: Debt Level and Corporate Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Elettra Agliardi ◽  
Vitalii Chechulin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Debt Level ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Debt Levels

This paper compares the effectiveness of traditional and green bonds for corporate performance among globalcompanies which issue these types of bonds. Our research represents a first attempt to provide an original empiricalcontribution with a specific focus on the influence of green debt levels on corporate performance. We develop aframework for the analysis of the influence of the debt level on corporate performance, and also compare the influence ofvarious types of bonds issuance on several indicators of corporate performance.Our data refer to 118 companies from various industries and countries, including 17 companies issuing green bonds inthe period from 2013 to 2017. We study the impact of debt levels on some standard corporate performance indicators,such as ROA, ROE, Revenue/Assets, EBITDA/Assets and EBIT/Assets.Our results show that bond issuance has a positive effect on corporate performance. In particular, the relationshipbetween debt levels and corporate performance is described in a non-linear way (an inverse U-shape), i.e., as debt levelincreases, the firm’s corporate performance grows, but only up to a certain point where the largest positive effect isachieved. Moreover, we find that the issuance of green bonds has a larger positive impact on corporate efficiency thantraditional bonds and the growth in the share of green financing in the total company’s debt has a positive impact oncorporate performance.This study opens up avenues for further research in the field, and combining our approach to evaluating the effect ofgreen bonds on corporate performance with an examination of companies arranged according to their life cycle stagewould be intriguing. However, at the present stage of development of the green bonds market it is impossible to studytheir influence on corporate performance as the research selection is rather small, and this market has emerged ratherrecently.

scholarly journals The Impact of Technological Innovation on Corporate Performance: Evidence From the Communication and Cultural Industry in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Maoguo Wu ◽  
Nan Gu
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
The Government ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Impact

China’s communication and cultural industry is an emerging industry at the primary stage of its development. Nowadays, the public’s increasing demand for cultural products, coupled with the strong support from the state and the government for the communication and cultural industry, have provided huge room for the development of this industry. However, some listed companies in the communication and cultural industry have not kept up with the constantly changing market and have not invested heavily in R&D and technological innovation, resulting in widespread product homogeneity and poor corporate performance. This paper empirically tests the impact of technological innovation on corporate performance of 56 listed companies from 2007 to 2016 in the communication and cultural industry. Along with variables that proxy technological innovation, variables that proxy solvency, profitability, operational capability, development capability, social responsibility, and shareholder indicators are included in the regression as explanatory variables. Empirical results show that technological innovation has a positive impact on the corporate performance of listed companies in the communication and cultural industry.

An Empirical Study on Capital Structure and Corporate Performance of Chinese Listed Companies

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahd Al-Duais
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Chinese Listed Companies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between level of debt and the companys performance remains an important unsolved issue in the field of financing. It is very important to know how Chinas listed companies manage their capital towards business growth. This paper investigates the impact of the capital structure on corporate performance of a sample of 711 listed companies on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China in 2014. The results indicates that there is a positive relation between financial leverage and corporate performance as well as there is a positive impact that the mixture of long-term debt and short-term debt (using total debt). This would help decision maker in the companies to finance firms operation in the both periods. On the other hand, the short term debt has a negative relation and impact on corporate performance compared to the changing in firm size which cannot change in the profitability of firms.

Peasant youth experiences of CEOs, risk aversion and corporate performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-312
Author(s):  
Kebin Deng ◽  
Zhong Ding ◽  
Yalu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Risk Prevention ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Youth Experiences ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of spiritual tempering on corporate performance by investigating the experiences of CEOs who were part of the “peasant youth” between 1957 and 1976 in China. Using a sample of China’s listed companies and by developing propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences model, we find that CEOs who had profound peasant youth experiences have a stronger awareness of risk prevention and that these experiences lead to an improvement in corporate performance of over 3%. In addition, the positive impact of CEOs’ peasant youth experience on corporate performance is pronounced in either state-owned or non-state-owned enterprises. Overall, this study confirms that spiritual tempering has a significant positive impact on corporate performance.

scholarly journals Gender diversity and governance: Analysis of Italian listed companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4, Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Graziella Sicoli ◽  
Giovanni Bronzetti ◽  
Dominga Ippolito ◽  
Giada Leonetti
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Governance Analysis ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, many countries have adopted different legislative and self-regulatory initiatives to be able to tackle the problem of the underrepresentation of women on boards. Also, Italy with Law No. 120/2011 introduced the gender issue adopting the normative that 1/3 of the elected members would be women. In this job, a primary aim was to study over the period 2016/2018 the impact of female presence on boards of 50 companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. In depth, our results confirm that Italian Law has produced significant effects on the composition of the corporate board. The result of our study shows that women positively influence corporate performance, this is perfectly in line with the literature on gender diversity. The contribution of the work is that the empirical study conducted on the 50 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange allows confirming what has been claimed in the literature and that is the importance of the female presence on the boards. An immediate reading of the data allows us to confirm that the female presence in corporate governance has a positive impact on corporate performance and productivity.

scholarly journals State ownership and efficiency characteristics

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Abramov ◽  
A. Radygin ◽  
M. Chernova ◽  
R. Entov
Keyword(s):  
State Ownership ◽  
Government Ownership ◽  
Gross Margin ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
Lower Productivity ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
The Impact

The paper examines the influence of state participation in the ownership structure of companies on their financial efficiency using a sample of 114 largest companies in Russia. As an indirect indicator of efficiency we used a variety of financial indicators: revenue per employee (gross margin), return on equity, profit margin and debt burden. The authors have tried to discriminate the influence of direct and indirect state ownership. Using econometric analysis we conclude that the size of the block of shares owned by the state has negative effect on the performance characteristics, and its increase is associated with an increase in the debt burden of companies. According to our criteria, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on average perform worse than private companies. The study shows that a change in the profitability of private companies is characterized by a significant dependence on the movement of indirect productivity characteristics. At the same time, for SOEs the similar correlation between return on equity and efficiency characteristics was not revealed. The study shows that the increase of the size of direct government ownership leads to lower productivity and profitability; the impact of indirect state ownership is, seemingly, more complicated.

scholarly journals Impact of the Ownership Structure on the Financial Performance of Banks: Comparative Study between Conventional and Islamic Banks

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Achraf Haddad ◽  
Anis El Ammari ◽  
Abdelfattah Bouri
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Impact

According to the literature of corporate governance, ownership structure is advanced as a non-dissociable mechanism of control intended to follow the stakeholders and especially used by shareholders to monitor the conflicts of interest and the opportunistic behavior of managers. Several previous studies have focused on the impact of ownership structure on financial performance separately in conventional or in Islamic banks. However, the comparative studies between these two impacts are non-existent. In this research, we compared the impacts of this governance mechanism on the financial performance in the two types of banks by using the Ordinary Least Squares method. Data relating to financial performance and ownership structure of banks come from 16 countries. Two samples were collected: the first one included 63 conventional banks, whereas the second one integrated 63 Islamic banks whose data are available over the period (2010-2018). Panel results showed that partial effect of each determinant of ownership structure on each measure of financial performance varied from one banks’ type to another and from one performance measure to another. Besides, the reconciliation of similar models revealed many differences between the same impacts’ signs. Therefore, we concluded that in both banks’ types the ownership structure has a positive impact on the financial performance. While, the negative part of the same impact is less significant in Islamic banks. JEL Classification:  F33, G20, G21, G24, G30.

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