Board of directors, capital structure, investment decisions and firm-performance: An empirical study of Nordic firms
Open Access
- 28 August 2020
- journal article
- Published by Virtus Interpress in Corporate Ownership and Control
- Vol. 17 (4), 377-390
- https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv17i4siart14
Abstract
Firms’ financing, boards of directors’ characteristics, investments, and firm-performance (financial and non-financial) occupy a pivotal place in corporate finance and corporate governance literature. The current study explores if causalities between the abovementioned four distinct albeit inter-related phenomena follow any pattern. The data comprising of 1240 firm-years belonging to Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark for the period of 2003 to 2018 have been analyzed by applying multivariate linear regression and principal component analysis. The findings show that the impact of boards of directors’ characteristics is stronger on capital structure, however, weaker on investments and financial performance. The major contribution of the article is creating a set orderly and sequential causalities between financing, boards of directors’ characteristics, investments, and firm-performance.Keywords
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