...) find no significant difference between male and female directors in some corporate decision-making, including leverage. Overall, the literature offers mixed predictions about whether board gender diversity is associated with lower leverage or more conservative financing choices. G32 G34 J16...

... 17 05 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Shareholder authority Corporate governance Creditor relations Debt structure Agency costs Say-on-Pay Creditor rights G32 G34 G23 K22 Funding: The author...

... Corporate governance Managerial discretion G34 G31 M12 Economic crises present critical tests of corporate leadership. Faced with heightened uncertainty and financial pressure, firms often reduce investment during economic downturns to preserve liquidity and manage risk (Campello et...

... 2025 30 05 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only ESG commitment Financial distress risk Leveraged buyout Financial structure M14 G34 A leveraged buyout (LBO) is an acquisition method that has been widely...

... approach Dividend policy Public company C15 G32 G34 G35 In the conditions of a modern developed market economy, a rather important characteristic of the activity of a public company (public joint-stock company) is its activity on the stock market (market activity), which should...

... 08 2024 05 12 2024 07 01 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bank FinTech Artificial intelligence Mergers and acquisitions Patents G21 G34 C23 Financial technology and artificial intelligence (AI...

... Business groups Emerging countries G20 G32 G34 L22 A business group consists of several independently managed firms with corporate limited liability features. Existing literature clearly differentiates between a business group and a single conglomerate, where the latter refers to a single...

... decisions that primarily benefit managers to please senior executives. Therefore, professional directors are less dedicated to monitoring managers’ decisions and providing specialized advice. G34 M41 Bernile et al. (2018) find that the diversity of a company’s board influences its...

... Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only CSR CSR inequality Takeover market Mergers and acquisitions Corporate governance Corporate social responsibility M14 G34 G38 One of the notable theories pertinent to CSR inequality is stakeholder...

... drawback of the previous research in this area is that it has focused solely on single or chosen anti-takeover legislations (Cain et al., 2017). External auditors Big N auditors Big four Hostile takeovers The market for corporate control Corporate governance G34 G38 M41 M42...

... C23 C26 G34 L25 The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of gender diversity on firm performance (FP) in the Indian context. During the past few decades, the impact of gender diversity on FP has attracted the interest of academicians, regulators and practitioners (Duppati...

... a comparison of both operational and stock performance of ESG and non-ESG SPACs. Special purpose acquisition company SPAC Environmental Social Governance ESG Corporate social responsibility Sustainability Disclosure Merger IPO G14 G32 G34 M13 M14 Q56 Our study is closely related...

... analysis, management practices and risk management. G34 G35 Our study aims to shed light on the phenomenon of clustering in final offer prices in M&A deals by examining evidence related to price negotiation and resolution. We find that price clustering is associated with valuation...

... 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Board gender diversity Religiosity Exogenous shocks D22 G23 G30 G34 G39 Women in leadership positions have been in the spotlight in the past few decades, and there is a growing emphasis on diversity, equity...

... 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only M&A announcement Cumulative abnormal return Pharmaceutical industry G30 G34 In 2018, the pharmaceutical industry accounted for US$1.2 trillion (IQVIA, 2019) of revenues worldwide; the growth registered a +6.14...

...@merrimack.edu 03 09 2022 01 12 2022 06 12 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Employee litigation Securities class action lawsuits Workplace environment G30 G32 G34 The workplace environment has...

... year of my sample. I calculate the duration of compensation following Gopalan et al. (2014) as a weighted average of the vesting period of each component of compensation where the weight used is the percentage of total compensation that the component represents. Specifically, G32 G34...

... performance using Tobin’s Q. However, they posit that non-family firms report more information in their CSR duties than family firms. Risk governance Ethics codes Risk committee Banks Performance G21 G32 G34 M14 One of the reasons behind the recent financial crisis and corporate...

...” framework (Rhodes-Kropf and Robinson, 2008) postulating a positive associative link between acquirer–target similarity and posttransaction operating outcomes. G30 G34 Mergers and acquisitions Emerging markets Business synergy © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing...

... Informed investors G01 G12 G14 G34 G35 There exist two distinct schools of thought in the academic literature as to the valuation motive for share repurchases. One view suggests that the rationale for share repurchase is to provide price support for stocks that are presumably undervalued...