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Ownership, Board Compensation and Company Performance in Sub-Saharan African Countries
2013
In countries with weak institutions, board governance becomes more important. This study uses a unique dataset from listed sub-Saharan African companies to examine the relationship between ownership composition and board compensation. It further analyses the association between board compensation and company performance. The findings indicate that board ownership and chief executive officer ownership are positively associated, whereas state ownership and concentrated ownership are negatively associated with board compensation. There is no evidence of a significant association between chairperson ownership or foreign ownership and board compensation. Finally, there is a negative but not sig…
Globalization of Monitoring Practices: The Case of American Influences on the Dismissal Risk of European CEOs
2013
Accepted version of an article from the Journal of Economics and Business This study examines globalization of monitoring practices by focusing on how American (U.S.) influences on European firms impact the dismissal risk for these firms' CEOs. Specifically, we argue that the stronger short term orientation of the American corporate governance system increase the dismissal performance sensitivity faced by European CEOs, indirectly and directly. The former materializes via European firms cross-listing on U.S. exchanges, the latter results from European firms hiring U.S. independent board members. Both influences are expected to result in increased dismissal performance sensitivity. Based on …
Pecking Order Versus Trade-off: An Empirical Approach to the Small and Medium Enterprise Capital Structure
2003
In this paper, we explore two of the most relevant theories that explain financial policy in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): pecking order theory and trade-off theory. Panel data methodology is used to test the empirical hypotheses over a sample of 6482 Spanish SMEs during the five-year period 1994?1998. The results suggest that both theoretical approaches contribute to explain capital structure in SMEs. However, while we find evidence that SMEs attempt to achieve a target or optimum leverage (trade-off model), there is less support for the view that SMEs adjust their leverage level to their financing requirements (pecking order model). En este trabajo, exploramos dos de las teorías má…
Corporate Investment, Debt and Liquidity Choices in the Light of Financial Constraints and Hedging Needs
2015
We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates between 1980 and 2014. We partition the sample according to the firms' financial constraints and their needs to hedge against future shortfalls in operating income. In contrast to earlier work, our joint estimation approach shows that cash flows affect the corporate decisions of unconstrained firms more strongly than those of constrained firms. Investment-cash flow sensitivities are particularly intense for unconstrained firms with high hedging needs. Investment opportunities (as proxied by Q), however, play a larger role for constrained firms with the effects being strongest…
The Institutional Determinants of Private Equity Involvement in Business Groups: The Case of Africa
2018
This study examines the governance attributes of post-IPO (initial public offering) retained ownership of private equity in business group constituent firms in contrast to their unaffiliated counterparts, in 202 newly listed firms in 22 emerging African economies. We adopt an actor centered institutional-theoretic perspective in rationalizing institutional voids and the advantages of maintained governance by both business angels (BA) and venture capital (VC) private equity. Our findings reveal private equity retain higher post-IPO ownership in business group constituents compared to unaffiliated firms and that this is inversely moderated in the context of improving institutional quality – w…
What Can International Finance Add to International Strategy?
2011
This chapter focuses on the role of corporate financial strategies to improve firms’ market valuations, and thus lower their cost of capital. The identification of successful strategies is accomplished within an overall strategic framework and related to how the firm perceives the degree of international financial integration. Five strategies for how to break out of a segmented, thin domestic capital market are highlighted together with historical success cases. The chapter illustrates the linkages between business strategy, firm motivation, and various financial strategies. JEL: F21, F23, F36, G32, G34.
Le capital-investissement
2001
Le capital-investissement intervient dans le financement de firmes nouvelles ou en phase de changement radical, qui diffère du financement par le marché des sociétés cotées, notamment en matière d'asymétrie informationnelle. Les capital-investisseurs s'attachent à réduire ce déséquilibre en évaluant directement le projet à financer et en mettant en place des mécanismes de contrôle appropriés. Dans une première section, sont présentés les liens et les différences existant entre le courant principal de la finance d'entreprise et le capital-investissement. La deuxième section est consacrée aux relations contractuelles existant entre les capital-investisseurs et les entreprises, avant que la dé…
La relation capital - investissement dans les firmes industrielles et commerciales
2000
Après avoir mis en évidence les particularités du capital-investissement, relativement à la finance d'entreprise traditionnelle, et procédé à son analyse dans le cadre théorique de la finance organisationnelle, cet article s'intéresse successivement au comportement des investisseurs dans la phase pré-contractuelle puis aux relations prévalant entre les parties après la mise en place du financement. Ces deux derniers points permettent respectivement de montrer les spécificités de ce type d'investissement dans les phases de sélection et d'évaluation de projets, et d'aborder successivement les aspects relatifs à la gestion a priori des risques moral et patrimonial, le contrôle courant et ex po…
Autofinancement, information et connaissance.
2007
L'objectif de cette note est d’analyser les limites de la notion d’autofinancement dans la théorie financière traditionnelle fondée sur la notion d’asymétrie d’information et d’explorer comment l’adoption d’une perspective cognitive permet d’identifier de nouvelles pistes pour mieux comprendre les déterminants de l’autofinancement.
THE STABILITY, RISK AND PERFORMANCE OF COOPERATIVE BANKS
2013
In a market economy, tradition, stability and performance of cooperative banks, namely science and art of leadership, management, organization and their administration become major facets in promoting and improving cooperative banks, at the microeconomic level, to which we provide a coherent set of concepts, principles, methods and management techniques, their knowledge contributing to the viability and practical implementation, modernization and development of cooperative banks to increase their profitability and competitiveness in heightened risk conditions on local, national and even global markets. In the context of major changes in Romanian society, the action of the forces inside the …