Against the background of deepening financial reform, the improvement of operational
efficiency has become the consensus of the banking industry. However, the impact of …

Is greater stakeholder engagement associated with greater stability? We provide readers
with novel empirical evidence that this is indeed the case. Cooperative banks (where …

In this paper, we assess the interaction between corruption, bank cost efficiency, and
economic development. Existing literature on the subject normally focuses separately on the …

Using data for Italy from 1994 to 2015, we appraise the nexus between Basel II and III
accords and both the cost and the profit inefficiency of profit‐oriented and mutual …

If banks' performance is to be be evaluated against the objectives they actually pursue,
assessments of stakeholder-oriented banks should go beyond financial efficiency …

Over time, cooperative banks lost their dominance in agricultural credit which they enjoyed
earlier, and presently they are facing many issues such as deposit management, liquidity …

Distinct from other countries, in Greece, the global financial crisis continued during the
decade 2010 and became an economic crisis resulting in a recession. It resulted from …

In this dissertation, I explain how organisational and personal practices transcending the
usual business context are consequential to the value creation process. Adopting the …

This chapter focuses on the countercyclical potentialities linked to the bank's relational
business model. We prove that cooperative banks are less involved in the mechanisms …

The paper analyzes whether co-operative banks are less involved than others in the
mechanisms underlying the propagation and accentuation of systemic risk and therefore, if …