The association between corporate governance and firm performance – a meta-analysis

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2015

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© 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6460

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Sayla Sowat Siddiqui , (2015) "The association between corporate governance and firm performance – a meta-analysis", International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, Vol. 23 Iss: 3, pp.218 - 237

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he purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance by conducting a meta-analysis of 25 previous studies. The analysis has three specific concerns, i.e. the moderating effects of legal systems (common law or civil law), governance mechanisms (external or both external and internal governance together) and performance measures (accounting or market value).

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Corporate governance, Firm performance, Meta-analysis, Market value, External governance

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This article was published in International Journal of Accounting and Information Management [© 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJAIM-04-2014-0023 The article website is at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/ijaim

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJAIM-04-2014-0023

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