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This research uses accrual and real earnings management strategies in an emerging economy to evaluate how CEO characteristics (i.e. CEO nationality, duality, and compensation) affect earnings management and how the COVID-19 pandemic modifies this ...
Mohammad Helal Uddin
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Nanomaterial‐based immune therapeutic strategies in neurodegenerative diseases
This review highlights the immunomodulatory potential of nanomaterials (NMs) in treating neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). It focuses on their roles in regulating innate and adaptive immune responses to maintain immune homeostasis. By providing insights into these mechanisms, the review lays the groundwork for innovative NMs therapeutic strategies to ...
Xinru Zhou +6 more
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The impact of chief executive officer’s personality on firm performance
This study aims to investigate the impact of Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) personality on firm performance in Vietnam. The study investigates sample data collected from 120 firms listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) during the ...
Phan Bùi Gia Thủy +2 more
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Do CEOs’ demographic characteristics affect firms’ risk-taking? Evidence from Jordan
The upper echelons theory suggests that directors’ characteristics, values, and professional experience have an impact on their perceptions, and thus their own decisions. Building on this theory, this study aims to examine the impact of CEOs’ demographic
Ruba Bsoul +4 more
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ABSTRACT This study assesses the degree of alignment with and eligibility to the EU Taxonomy of non‐financial firms and investigates its relationship with their Cost of Debt (CoD). The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 306 non‐financial firms listed on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index across 15 European countries. Taxonomy‐related data were manually
Fabio Rizzato +3 more
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This study investigates the determinants of dividend pay-out of listed firms in Pakistan from the year 2011 to 2015. The focus of the study is the life cycle theory of dividends, agency theory and signaling theory.
Hussain Haroon +3 more
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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann +2 more
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Coporate Governance, Institutional Ownership, and the Decision to Pay the Amount of Dividends: Evidence from USA [PDF]
The decision to pay dividends is influenced by many financial factors. The purpose of this study is to find the relationships between corporate governance, institutional ownership, and the decision to pay dividends in American service firms.
Gill, Amarjit, Obradovich, John
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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CEO Duality Structure and Firm Performance in Pakistan
This article examines the impact of CEO duality on firm performance; which attracted much attention, especially in emerging economies, yet yielded several inconsistent empirical results. CEO duality exists when the offices of the CEO and Chairman are retained by the same person.
Yasser, Qaiser Rafique +2 more
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