scholarly journals Corporate Board Attributes and Firm Performance of Publicly Traded Manufacturing Companies in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Publicly Traded

scholarly journals An assessment of the moderating role of employees’ cultural orientations amongst foreign manufacturing multinational companies in Kenya

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Dimba ◽  
Robert Rugimbana
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Orientation: This article investigates the question, of whether culture really matters in implementing international strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices.Research purpose: Specifically, this study sought to investigate the extent to which employee cultural orientations moderate the link between SHRM practices and firm performance in large foreign manufacturing multinational companies in Kenya. Motivation for the study: Large foreign multinational companies have generally applied SHRM practices without adaptation when trying to improve employee performance even though resource based perspectives argue for the consideration of employees’ cultural orientations. Research design, approach and method: SHRM practices were conceptualised as independent variables measured through distinct practices. Organisational performance as a dependent variable was measured using constructs of image, interpersonal relations, and product quality. Cultural dimensions adopted for this study were power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism or collectivism, and masculinity or femininity. The above conceptual framework was tested by the use of both quantitative and qualitative techniques with data from fifty (50) large foreign multinational companies operating in Kenya. Main findings: Findings indicated that the relationship between SHRM practices and firm performance depend to a greater extent on employee cultural orientations when power distance is considered. Power distance (PD) refers to the extent of people accepting that power in institutions and organisations when distributed unequally. The greater the PD, the greater the acceptance of this inequality. Practical/managerial implications: The study supported the notion that the relationship between SHRM practices and firm performance is moderated by power distance through motivation but not by the other three bipolar dimensions namely, Uncertainty Avoidance, Masculinity or Femininity and Individualism or Collectivism. Contribution/value-add: This is the first large-scale empirical article that has focused on the moderating role of employees’ cultural orientations in large foreign manufacturing companies operating in Kenya.

scholarly journals Unobservable characteristics of board directors and the performance of financial services firms in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-388
Author(s):  
Henry Osahon Osazevbaru ◽  
Emmanuel Mitaire Tarurhor
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Share Price ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Strategic Performance ◽  
Financial Firms

This paper examines the intricate link between unobservable characteristics of directors on the corporate board and firm performance. It aims to extend the literature on corporate governance and firm strategic performance from the perspective of emerging African economies. A mix of performance measures were used (Tobin Q, return on assets, and share price) and unobservable characteristics were captured as a stochastic element or heterogeneity of observable board characteristics (board activity, gender diversity, size, and independence). The study applied non-linear generalized auto-regressive conditional heteroscedasticity model to examine the data set consisting of 299 firm-year observations from 23 financial firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange from 2006 to 2018. Positive skewness and leptokurtic distribution were found for all the variables. Correlation matrix revealed no multicollinearity, as the highest value was 0.2386. Empirical results suggest that unobservable characteristics significantly and positively influence firm performance as measured by return on assets and share price. This is because the coefficient of the lagged-value of the variance scaling parameter is positive and significant at the 1% level. However, with respect to Tobin Q measure, the result was positive but not significant at the 5% level. Implicitly, the result is sensitive to performance proxies. Accordingly, this study concludes that unobservable characteristics drive firm performance. It is recommended that boards and regulators should pay attention to unobservable characteristics.

scholarly journals The Composition Of Corporate Boards Of Directors: Does Industry Matter?

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Marlin ◽  
Scott W. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Trade Finance ◽  
Board Characteristics ◽  
Publicly Traded Firms

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-add-space: auto;" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The purpose of this study is to identify and examine differences in corporate board characteristics across four industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a sample of 2592 US publicly traded firms, eleven board characteristics were identified and then examined across manufacturing, retail trade, finance/insurance, and services industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our analyses revealed significant differences in each of the eleven board characteristics examined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Implications and areas for future research are discussed.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals The Impact of Supply Chain Partnership on Firm Performance: an Empirical Study Based on Listed Manufacturing Companies in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Panxin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Additional Test ◽  
Global Business ◽  
The Impact

Today, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is regarded as an essential strategic factor, which has a great deal of influence on earning competitiveness in global business environment. There are conflicts among all members of the SCM. In order to maximize the total profit of the SCM, negotiation among all members is necessary. For enterprise in the supply chain, the supply chain partnership has become a significant factor affecting firm performance. In this paper, I examine the impact of cooperation between enterprise and its supply chain partners. Specifically, I collect survey data from Chinese manufacturing firms about their relations with partners and use regression analysis to test hypotheses about the associations between firm performance and supply chain partnership. My results support that superior supplier partnership has a positive impact on reducing transaction costs and improving financial and market performance. In additional test, I establish a series of models with interactive terms. The results of additional test indicate that the impact is enhanced if the competition of each sub industry of the manufacturing industry is different. Above all, I put forward the following suggestions. Enterprise managers could establish an evaluation mechanism of suppliers and retailers, which select high-quality cooperative partners and reduce low-quality transaction costs for enterprises. When participating in business operation, shareholders could comprehensively understand the business conditions of various supply partners and choose reliable supply chain partners for investment. Also, the government can guide the realization of resource sharing and information exchange among supply chain enterprises, which is beneficial to create a more competitive supply chain to promote economic development.

Does family involvement matter post IPO? Adding value through advertising in family firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atanas Nik Nikolov ◽  
Yuan Wen
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family

PurposeThis paper brings together research on advertising, family business, and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm to examine performance differences between publicly traded US family vs non-family firms. The purpose of this paper is to understand the heterogeneity of family vs non-family firm advertising after such firms become publicly traded.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on the RBV of the firm, as well as on extensive empirical literature in family business and advertising research to empirically examine the differences between family and non-family firms in terms of performance.FindingsUsing panel data from over 2,000 companies across ten years, this research demonstrates that family businesses have higher advertising intensity than competitors, and achieve higher performance returns on their advertising investments, relative to non-family competitors. The results suggest that the “familiness” of public family firms is an intangible resource that, when combined with their advertising investments, affords family businesses a relative advantage compared to non-family businesses.Research limitations/implicationsFamily involvement in publicly traded firms may contribute toward a richer resource endowment and result in creating synergistic effects between firm “familiness” and the public status of the firm. The paper contributes toward the RBV of the firm and the advertising literature. Limitations include the lack of qualitative data to ground the findings and potential moderating effects.Practical implicationsUnderstanding how family firms’ advertising spending influences their consequent performance provides new information to family firms’ owners and management, as well as investors. The authors suggest that the “familiness” of public family firms may provide a significant advantage over their non-family-owned competitors.Social implicationsThe implications for society include that the family firm as an organizational form does not need to be relegated to a second-class citizen status in the business world: indeed, combining family firms’ characteristics within a publicly traded platform may provide firm performance benefits which benefit the founding family and other stakeholders.Originality/valueThis study contributes by highlighting the important influence of family involvement on advertising investment in the public family firm, a topic which has received limited attention. Second, it also integrates public ownership in family firms with the family involvement–advertising–firm performance relationship. As such, it uncovers a new pathway through which the family effect is leveraged to increase firm performance. Third, this study also contributes to the advertising and resource building literatures by identifying advertising as an additional resource which magnifies the impact of the bundle of resources available to the public family firm. Fourth, the use of an extensive panel data set allows for a more complex empirical investigation of the inherently dynamic relationships in the data and thus provides a contribution to the empirical stream of research in family business.

The Effect of Profitability and Financial Leverage on Cost of Debt Moderated Earnings Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Herman Ruslim, Renny Muspyta
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Financial Leverage ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Publicly Traded Companies ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Cost

This study aims to determine the effect of profitability and Financial Leverage on the Cost of Debt, and the role of Earnings Management as a moderating variable. In this study, profitability is measured by the ratio of return on equity, financial leverage is measured by the proxy debt ratio, earnings management as measured by discretionary accruals, and cost of debt is measured by the ratio of interest expense divided by the average total debt. The population in this study are publicly traded companies listed on the IDX, and the sample used is manufacturing companies listed on the IDX for the 2016-2019 period. Based on the purposive sampling method, the samples obtained were 69 manufacturing companies and 276 observations. The results showed that profitability has a negative effect on the cost of debt, while financial leverage has no effect on the cost of debt, earnings management cannot weaken the negative effect of profitability on the cost of debt and earnings management cannot weaken the negative effect of financial leverage on the cost of debt.

Where Women Make a Difference: Gender Quotas and Firms’ Performance in Three European Countries

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 768-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Comi ◽  
Mara Grasseni ◽  
Federica Origo ◽  
Laura Pagani
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Identification Strategy

The authors study the effect of corporate board gender quotas on firm performance in France, Italy, and Spain. The identification strategy exploits the exogenous variation in mandated gender quotas within country and over time and uses a counterfactual methodology. Using firm-level accounting data and a difference-in-difference estimator, the authors find that gender quotas had either a negative or an insignificant effect on firm performance in the countries considered with the exception of Italy, where they find a positive impact on productivity. The authors then focus on Italy. Using a novel data set containing detailed information on board members’ characteristics, they offer possible explanations for the positive effect of gender quotas. The results provide an important contribution to the policy debate about the optimal design of legislation on corporate gender quotas.

scholarly journals Konsentrasi Kepemilikan, Transaksi Pihak Berelasi, dan Kinerja Perusahaan

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
Nitami Galih Pangesti ◽  
Widi Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Related Party Transactions ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Positive Effect

Agency theory describe that ownership concentration is a good corporate governance system that helps to reduce agency problems arising from the divergence of interest between shareholders and managers. But, when ownership concentration becomes high, lead to another agency problem that is conflict between controlling shareholders and minority shareholders. This study purposed to examine the relation of ownership concentration and related party transactions on firm performance. This research uses quantitative descriptive method with associative approach. Sample used in this study was 474 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2018. We used multiple linear regression as analysis technique. Results showed that ownership concentration had a positive effect on firm performance and related party transactions had a positive effect on firm performance. Keywords : Ownership Concentration; Related Party Transactions; Firm Performance.

Family Governance, Earning Quality, and Firm Performance in Indonesian Listed Firms

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurmala Ahmar
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Accrual Quality ◽  
Family Governance ◽  
Earning Quality

This research aimed to analyze family firm governance, earning quality, andfirm performance of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia StockExchange. This study also investigated the mediating effect of earning qualityon the effect of family governance toward firm performance. Earning quality is measured by earning persistence, earning predictability, earning smoothness, and accrual quality. Firm’s performance is measured by market performancein Tobin-q and operational performance in return on asset. This research usedpooled data in which earning persistence and earning predictability need 11 until 16 years observations, earning smoothness needs 2 until 7- year-observations, and accrual quality needs 12 years observations. The hypotheses testing used pathanalysis. To find empirical evidence, the main hypothesis testing was done bytesting 16 sub-hypotheses. The mediating role of earnings quality was proved bythe measurement of earnings persistence, earnings predictability, and quality ofaccruals. The role of earning quality on the effect of family governance toward firm  performance is confirmed. The results show, as much as 6 sub - hypothesessupport the main hypothesis. This study finds  the empirical evidence of the roleof earning quality  on the effecf of family governance  reflected  in the involvementof family in board of commisioner toward firm performance (Tobin-q, ROA).Keywords - Business management, family firm, firm performance, family governance, earning quality, descriptive design, Indonesia

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