This research studies the moderating effects of formal and informal institutional factors on the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and earnings management (EM). Prior knowledge has provided mixed ...

This study aims to provide an answer how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects tax avoidance in Europe. Because existing theory and prior research exhibited inconclusive results and was predominantly conducted using ...

The effect of a financial advisor on the performance of the acquiring firm after a M&A deal Abstract The objective of this paper was to determine a relationship between financial advisor characteristics and the ...

This thesis aims to investigate whether Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are differently related to innovation initiation than to innovation implementation. Both are operationalized through the Global Innovation Index. As ...

Corporate social responsibility is a concept which received an increased amount of attention from the public, governmental bodies, the press and the business themselves. However, when investigating the research towards ...

Using data from US and European takeover deals in the period 1997-2006 and 2009-2018, this paper tested the unspoken assumption present in the existing literature that differences in takeover premiums between financial and ...

This study investigated the relationship between environmental performance disclosures by companies and their financial performance, measured as the Return On Assets. The research employed yearly data from 223 different ...

This thesis studies the relationship between CSR performance and financial firm performance in the European context. Previous literature show mixed results and there is no consensus on the sign of the relationship. 136 ...

Building from the major variation in findings across previous research performed concerning the value relevance of CSR performance information, this thesis adds the complexity of national culture in an attempt to broaden ...