As family businesses grow worldwide, the significant role of family shareholders on firm value becomes questionable. This study seeks to address this issue and provides new evidence on the non-linearity of family ownership-firm value relationship, based on 375 firm-year observations of 75 public listed companies in Saudi Arabia over fiveContinue Reading

Hedging practices among Shari鈥檃h compliant firms (ShC) are still not well explored and firms in Malaysia is very much lag behind in derivatives usage against firms in the developed countries. This study investigates the influence of financial derivatives usage on the value of Shari鈥檃h and non-Shari鈥檃h compliant firms (non-ShC) inContinue Reading