... 2024 30 08 2024 14 01 2025 14 01 2025 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Banking Corporate governance Board of directors Market power Lerner index G21 G30 L13 As the economic theory suggests...

... 18 07 2025 12 09 2025 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Politics Contributions Influence CEO Personality Digital executive C45 D72 G30 G38 G41 H25 Corporate political contributions represent...

... G30 G32 G38 O24 O38 Our focus on firm profitability is due to its being a fundamental measure of a company’s financial performance and success. It not only reflects a company’s ability to generate earnings from its operations but also is an essential factor to consider when investors make...

... Seasoned equity offering Raising capital Long-run performance D82 G30 G32 Recent papers indicate that firms’ corporate lifecycles and dynamic cash needs explain their security issuance decisions (DeAngelo et al., 2010 ; Huang and Ritter, 2021). This funding-horizon theory stands...

... exposure cash holding government support lobbying dividend payout firm investment G30 G31 G32 G39 Faced with extreme levels of uncertainty and sharp reductions in cash flows, many firms are forced to focus on preserving short-term capital to ensure their survival (Bates et al...

.../ . The written permission of Emerald Publishing Limited must be obtained for commercial re-use. G30 G54 Q56 Climate finance sustainable finance green finance ESG SRI CSR SDG sustainability environment governance reporting ratings Sustainability and climate finance...

.... Board of directors gender diversity performance misconduct innovation G30 M14 Recent regulation to improve female representation on boards often cites research documenting that more gender diversity positively impacts the decisionmaking process and, therefore, companies’ results...

.... ² © 2022 R. Bianchini and A. Croce 2022 R. Bianchini and A. Croce Licensed re-use rights only G24 G30 H23 Clean tech environmental policies venture capital machine learning environmental finance On the other hand, governments may play a role in fostering cleantech...

... G30 A family firm is a hybrid identity organization which combines both “family” and “firm” social forms (Whetten et al., 2013). A family firm has incompatible elements or tension from “family” and “firm” since each element has its own rules or expectations. A family firm...

... firms to build long-term relationships with stakeholders, including debtholders. Thus, it would mitigate the third type of agency conflict between shareholders and debtholders. © 2022 R. Ding, M. Liu, Y. Wang and Z. Wu 2022 R. Ding, M. Liu, Y. Wang and Z. Wu Licensed re-use rights only G30...

... of the repurchase program. While more controversial compared to the three earlier pieces of evidence, the long-run stock return evidence provides additional support for the signaling (or undervaluation) hypothesis. G30 G32 G35 Accelerated share repurchase open market share repurchase liquidity...

..., commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. © 2021 N. Aktas, E. Croci, O. Ozbas and D. Petmezas 2021 N. Aktas, E. Croci, O. Ozbas and D. Petmezas Licensed re-use rights only Working capital bonus payment executive compensation financial constraint G30 G31 J33 We consider all...

...; Bizjak et al., 2008; Jenter and Kanaan, 2015). Overall, these arguments further explain why firms may find it beneficial to mimic peers’ financing decisions. Trade credit accounts receivable firm behavior peer effects mimicking G30 G32 D21 D22 Trade credit is one...