Risk governance: conceptualization, tasks, and research agenda

V Stein, A Wiedemann - Journal of Business Economics, 2016 - Springer
While risk management has been of fundamental interest to researchers and practitioners
alike during the last decade, its limitations in today's dynamically changing business …

Short-termism in financial decision-making: Uncovering the influence of managerial myopia on corporate financial asset allocation through MD&A textual analysis

C Chen, T Wang, X Jia - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
This study utilizes the upper echelons and time orientation theoretical frameworks to analyze
the impact of managers' temporal disposition on financial asset allocation within …

Corporate governance and risk taking: Evidence from the UK and German insurance markets

M Eling, SD Marek - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the impact of factors related to corporate governance (ie, compensation,
monitoring, and ownership structure) on risk taking in the insurance industry. We measure …

Ownership structure and financial stability: Evidence from Takaful and conventional insurance firms

M Rubio-Misas - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides cross-country evidence on financial stability in seven markets with a
dual system of Takaful companies and conventional insurers over the period 2009–2016. It …

Boardroom gender diversity and risk-taking in the insurance industry: do organizational form and ownership structure matter?

H Jouber - Corporate Governance: The International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between boardroom gender diversity
(BoGD) and risk-taking by property-liability (PL) stock insurers from an analytical framework …

Foreign investors and corporate risk taking behavior in an emerging market

XV Vo - Finance Research Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of foreign ownership on the corporate risk taking activity
at the firm level in Vietnam. Employing different techniques of panel data estimation, we find …

Family ownership and risk: the role of family managers

C D'Este, M Carabelli - … : The International Journal of Business in …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between family managers and firms'
risk levels in a context characterized by low investor protection and firm opacity. Specifically …

The effects of busy board on firm's probability to pay dividends

L Sun, H Yu - Research in International Business and Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
Using a comprehensive data sample covering the period 2000–2017, from the agency
problem perspective, this paper reveals a significantly negative relationship between board …

Competition and risk-taking behaviour in the non-life insurance market in South Africa

AL Alhassan, N Biekpe - The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance …, 2018 - Springer
This study examines the non-linear effect of competition on risk-taking behaviour in an
emerging insurance market. The paper utilises annual firm-level data on 79 non-life …

Board Characteristics, Ownership Structures and Gender Diversity on Bank Risk-taking Behavior of Banks in Ghana.

A Musah, B Okyere, GNA Boye… - African Journal of …, 2022 - journals.co.za
The study examined the effect of board characteristics, ownership structure and gender
diversity on bank risk taking behaviour in Ghana. The study sampled 15 commercial banks …