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Dividend and Share Changes: Is There a Financing Hierarchy? [PDF]
The most widely accepted empirical dividend model is that proposed by Lintner, who argued that firms smooth dividends over time. Many theoretical dividend models, however, either predict that dividends should be highly variable, or at least offer no ...
Naomi Soderstrom, Robert L. McDonald
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the critical role that banks play in sustainable development through their financial intermediation and capital allocation functions, assessing their sustainability performance has become an increasingly important research issue.
Özcan Işık +3 more
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Dividend Yield and Stability versus Performance at the German Stock Market [PDF]
It is often examined in the literature whether the dividend yields of stocks correlate with their total returns. This paper analyzes the effect of dividend yield on return as well as on risk and on performance of stocks and stock portfolios. Not only the
Peter Reichling +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to test the effectiveness of adopting Integrated Thinking and Reporting (ITR) in enhancing distinct but interconnected dimensions of corporate performance, namely, organizations' environmental, social, and financial performance, ultimately addressing their activities towards the achievement of sustainable development.
Maria Cleofe Giorgino +3 more
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Dividend Behaviour of Indian Companies Under Monetary Policy Restrictions [PDF]
In this study we examine the dividend behaviour of Indian companies. We use GMM estimator, which is the most suitable methodology in a dynamic setting. Our results show that the Indian firms have lower target ratios and higher adjustment factors.
Bhat Ramesh, Pandey I M
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is extensive literature on the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms' environmental performance (EP). However, the empirical findings remain somewhat equivocal. A variety of theoretical approaches have been utilised to provide a suitable basis for explaining the causal relationship, including legitimacy theory ...
Lukas Horner, Michael Grüning
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relevance of sustainable governance (SG) and its impactful elements in the context of the Russian market, a unique case of an isolated economy, using market value as a proxy for concept relevance. Adopting stakeholder and institutional approaches, this study uses panel data from 152 firms listed on the Moscow ...
Evgeniia Kiseleva +3 more
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The dividend strategy of Indian companies: An empirical assessment [PDF]
The paper uses firms across different ownership categories to examine the factors influencing dividend policy. The results suggest that bigger, mature and low-leveraged firms tend to pay more dividends.
Ghosh, Saibal
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Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng +4 more
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