... of political connections and the impact of gender equality policy initiatives on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Fixed-effects regression models are employed in a sample of 1,822 firm-year observations for financial firms across the GCC from 2011–2022 to test the hypotheses. Moreover...

...Ahsan Habib; Abdul Haris Muhammadi Purpose This paper aims to investigate the association between political connections and the audit report lag and whether related party transactions moderate the association between the two. Design/methodology/approach An ordinary least square regression...

...Moeen Umar Cheema; Rahat Munir; Sophia Su Purpose This paper aims to investigate the association between political connections (PCs) and organisational performance in a South Asian country, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected for 250 non-financial organisations listed...

...Iman Harymawan; John Nowland Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how the earnings quality of politically connected firms is affected by changes in political stability and government effectiveness in a developing country. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a sample...

...Zhong-qin Su; Hung-gay Fung; Jot Yau Purpose – Using panel data for the period 2004-2010, this study shows that political connections have a significant positive effect on corporate overinvestment in China while their interaction with related-party transactions has a negative effect. Results also...