Recently, ESG(Environmental, Social, Governance) has been recognized as an important factor for the sustainable growth of companies. However, only 14.5% of food manufacturing companies have adopted ESG management. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) face difficulties in implementing ESG management due to a lack of specialized personnel and resource constraints. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of ESG ratings on the management performance of 40 food manufacturing companies listed on the Korea Exchange(KRX) that have been evaluated for ESG. The one-way ANOVA was used and performed on data for 40 food manufacturing companies published by the Korea Institute of Corporate Governance and Sustainability(KCGS) in 2023. The results of the analysis showed statistically significant differences in sales (F=12.936, p<0.001) and foreign ownership (F=7.74, p<0.01) based on ESG ratings. Furthermore, Scheffe's post-hoc analysis indicated that the higher the ESG rating and individual scores, the better the overall management performance. Therefore, it is concluded that food manufacturing companies should continuously invest in and focus on ESG management to secure a competitive advantage in the market and achieve sustainable growth.

본 연구는 기업의 국제화 수준이 기업 간 제휴 파트너로서의 매력도를 증가시키는지 검증해 보고자 하였다. 이 와 더불어 기술적 역량과 기업집단 소속여부가 국제화 수준과 기업 간 제휴형성 사이의 관계를 강화시키는지도 함께 검증하였다. 가설의 검증을 위해 1997년 기준 코스닥 등록기업 리스트를 토대로 1997년부터 2014년까지 국내 242개 제조업체에서 수집한 3,546개의 쌍체 표본 자료(dyadic data)를 구성하였다. 음이항 회귀분석 (negative binominal regression)을 사용한 실증분석 결과, 국제화 수준이 기업간 제휴형성에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것이라는 본 논문의 가설이 지지된다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 한편, 기술적 역량과 기업집단 소속여부는 기업 간의 제휴형성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것이 확인되었으나 국제화 수준과 기업 간 제휴형성 사이에서의 조절효과는 나타나지 않았다. 본 논문의 결과에 따르면, 제휴 파트너 선택 과정에서 국제화 수준이라는 지표는 제휴 파트너 기업의 내부 역량에 대한 긍정적인 신호로 작용하여 조직 장(organizational field) 내에서의 잠재 적 제휴 파트너로서의 정당성을 획득하는 수단이 될 수도 있음을 시사한다. 본 논문은 국제화 수준이라는 지표가 오디언스(audience)로 하여금 해당 조직의 내부역량에 대한 긍정적 기대효과를 유발할 수도 있음을, 실제 기업 간의 전략적 제휴라는 상황적 맥락을 바탕으로 이론화하고 이를 실증분석 하였다는데 의의가 있다.

본 연구는 국내 코스닥시장에 상장된 중소기업이 2010년부터 2014년까지 5년간 해외 및 국내에서 IR 활동을 실시한 것이 주가에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였는 바, 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 국내외 IR 실시는 주가에 긍정적인 영향을 미치면서 주가를 한 단계 레벨업시키는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 단기적으로는 국 내 IR이 해외 IR보다 주가에 보다 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 외국인지분율이 매우 낮은 코 스닥기업의 경우에는 효율성 측면에서 해외 IR보다는 국내 IR에 보다 집중하는 것이 나았다. 넷째, 개별기업이 주관하여 IR을 실시하는 것이 한국거래소(KRX) 주관 IR보다 주가에 훨씬 더 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 다섯째, 외국인지분율이 높은 코스닥기업일수록 IR 실시에 따른 긍정적인 주가 반응이 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. 이는 부분적으로 외국인투자자와 경영자 간의 정보비대칭성이 덜하기 때문으로 해석된다. 여섯째, 수익성이 높은 기업 일수록 IR 활동이 주가에 더욱 긍정적으로 영향을 미침으로써, 코스닥 중소기업들은 수익성이 뒷받침되는 경우 적극적으로 IR을 실시하여 기업가치를 높여야 할 것임을 시사한다. 일곱째, 동일 분기 내에 IR을 여러번 실시하 는 경우 주가에는 오히려 덜 긍정적으로 작용하였다. 또한 규모가 큰 코스닥기업은 해외 IR을 실시함으로써 주가 에 더 긍정적인 영향을 받고 있었다. 결론적으로 한국 중소기업의 국내외 IR 활동은 주가에 긍정적인 영향을 미 치는 것으로 나타난 반면, 국내주식시장의 개방과 국제자본시장의 통합 진전으로 인해 국내 IR과 해외 IR의 주 가영향력에는 크게 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 IR 활동 자체는 기업가치를 높이는 효과가 여전히 존재 하므로 향후 국내 코스닥 중소기업들도 더욱 적극적으로 IR 활동을 수행해야 할 것으로 기대된다.

This paper aims to investigate the impact of chief executive officer’s (CEO) attributes on firms’ performance. Specifically, it examines the influence of CEOs’ education, professional experience, and tenure on Saudi firms’ performance. We look at a sample of 120 listed firms on Tadawul stock exchange from 2014 to 2017. Data on financial and accounting variables are obtained from the annual reports of the selected companies. We follow the existing empirical literature and use a panel model and formulate three different equations using the GMM estimator. Findings prove that CEO educational background does matter. In particular, companies employing CEOs with business administration, economics, finance, or accounting degree will perform outstandingly better. Similarly, stock performance gets improved when the CEO has a postgraduate qualification, i.e., when the CEO holds an MBA, a master, or a PhD degree. Besides, results reveal that executives who have an experience in a related field will positively affect the firm’s performance. Finally, evidence shows that high CEOs tenure improves corporate performance. Overall, these findings demonstrate that executives’ attributes are key factors that would explain differences in Saudi firms’ performance. These results would help shareholders to make the right decision in selecting CEOs to manage the company.

The study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity on the firm market value, in particular, market capitalization of tour operators listed on Chinese stock markets. This study employs panel data analysis methods to examine endogeneity concerns in observational data. The balanced panel data includes a total of 1,296 observations with 27 cross-sections of tour operators listed on Chinese stock markets and with 48 time-specific periods from March 2006 to December 2017. The results indicate that CSR activity has a negative impact on the market value of the firm for the concurrent period, but from one-period time lag and afterwards CSR activity has a strong positive impact on the market value and sustains its positive impact on the market value even for a two-period time lag. The findings suggest that the economic effect of CSR activity on the firm market value tends to take some degree of lagged effects to be fully showcased in the market capitalization of tour operators and travel companies listed on Chinese stock markets. The findings suggest that, though CSR activity may carry some financial risk for an immediate short-term, tour operators must put a lot of time and effort into making CSR actions effective.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of the capital structure of firms operating in a developing economy, Pakistan. The quantile regression method is applied on a sample of 183 non-financial companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange during the period of 2008-2017. Specifically, the empirical analysis focuses on changes in the coefficients of the determinants according to the leverage ratio quantiles of the examined listed firms. The findings show that the capital structure of Pakistan listed firms differs between firms in different quantiles of leverage. These differences are significant with the sign of explanatory variables changes with the level of leverage. The research result found tangibility, profitability and age to be positively related to leverage among listed firms in Pakistan. However, size, liquidity and non-debt tax shield (NDTS) are negatively related to leverage. A firm’s growth and risk are found to be insignificant predictors of capital structure in Pakistan listed firms. Moreover, the study also found a significant impact of industry characteristic on leverage. The findings of this study indicate that an individual firm’s finance policy needs to be responsive to the firm’s characteristics and should match with the different borrowing requirements of listed firms.

The paper examines the influence of corporate governance (CG) and earning quality (EQ) on corporate value (FV) of Vietnamese enterprises. The study uses GLS regression and linear structure model using data collected from companies listing on the stock market in Vietnam during 2008- 2018, with a total of 2,937 observations. The research results indicate that EQ and CG represented by the Integrated Board of Directors and the Integrated Supervisory Board have a positive effect on FV directly and indirectly. The results show that the Integrated Board of Directors has a positive effect on EQ, whereas the Integrated Supervisory Board has a negative effect on EQ. Based on the research results, we suggest that companies need to strictly comply and implement GC, so to bring down the agency cost and consequently to increase performance. The companies also should establish the Board of Director of a proper size, with financial and accounting specialty, and including women board members. The government also needs to improve the management mechanism asking for firms to prepare and publish financial statements with reliable company information, which could be provided to users. These recommendations are a useful basis to help businesses improve FV via changes in the corporate governance factors in each enterprise.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find out the impact of financial leverage on firm’s profitability in the listed textile sector of Bangladesh. Research design, data and methodology: A sample of 22 DSE listed textile firms has been used to conduct the study. In this study, firm profitability is measured by Return on Equity (ROE) and both short term debt and long term debt are used as the as proxies of financial leverage. Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effect (FE), and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models have been used to test the relationship between financial leverage and profitability of firms. Result: This study finds a significant negative relationship between leverage and firm’s profitability using the Pooled OLS method. The result is also consistent with the fixed effect and GMM method. This result implies that firm’s profitability is negatively affected by the firm’s capital structure. Conclusion: The study concludes that maximum textile firms use external debt as a source of finance as they don’t have sufficient internally generated funds. This study recommends that firm should give more emphasize on generating fund internally to meet up their financing needs.

The study aims to examine the impact of productivity in addition to the policy of increasing the foreign investors’ ownership rate on the performance of businesses which were listed on Vietnam's stock exchange market from 2010 to 2017. With the database of 3.961 observations, the study employs a statistical method – multiple regression to estimate the relationship between labor productivity, foreign ownership as well as other firm-level characteristics and firm performance. Research findings show that increasing labor productivity and increasing foreign ownership rates help increase firm performance. In addition, except for financial leverage, variables such as liquidity and firm size have positive effects on firm performance measured by Tobin’s Q. These findings have theoretical contributions and practical implications for managers, investors and government in Vietnam. Managers should pay attention to improving labor productivity through employing incentive mechanisms, building a good working environment, investing in technology, etc. in order to enhance the firm performance. Investors could utilize the labor productivity and foreign ownership indicators to select stocks of good companies for investment. For Vietnamese government, relaxing the limit of foreign ownership and accelerating the divesting of State capital in Stateowned enterprises could help increase the investment scale of foreign investors and resulting in positive effects on the firm performance.

Corporate governance has received massive attention in academic research nowadays due to several recent corporate failures. Inefficiency of corporate governance mechanisms have driven the minds of the researchers and the policy makers to look with more insights into this area. Board composition, as part of corporate governance mechanism, plays a significant role to achieve company’s goals or objectives and ensure transparency and accountability. The objective of this study is to find out the efficiency of board composition through board size, independent directors and female directors on firm performance in the listed manufacturing firms of Bangladesh. In this study, a sample of 162 firm years are considered as the sample during the period of 2011 to 2016. This study finds that large board is the significant explanatory variable in improving firm performance. This study also shows that board independence and female directors have no significant association with firm performance which implies that instrument of corporate governance mechanism particularly board composition is very weak. This study recommends that code of corporate governance, specially the role of independent directors and female directors, should be reformed in the light of cultural and institutional context along with the effective enforcement.