Corporate governance and financing decisions of Ghanaian listed firms

By J. Abor. 2007

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Good corporate governance in Nigeria: Antecedents, propositions and peculiarities (2015, background): “Empirically, this further adds to the budding literature on corporate governance in African countries (Briston, 1978; Abor, 2007; Kyereboah-Coleman, 2007; Mangena & Chamisa, 2008; Sanda, Mikailu & Garba, 2010; Bokpin, 2011; Mahadeo, Soobaroyen & Oogarah-Hanuman, 2012; Mangena, Tauringana & Chamisa,…”
Impact of Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance on Capital Structure of Pakistani Listed Companies (2009, background): “Berger (1997), Friend and Lang (1988), Wen (2002) and Abor (2007) discuss the influence of corporate governance on the capital structure decisions of firms for developed and emerging markets.”
Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship between CEO Personal Characteristics and Financial Leverage Decision (2015, background): “Abor (2007) shows that optimistic CEOs exhibit a stronger relation between debt issue and financing deficit as compared to non-optimistic managers. Graham et al (2009) find consistent evidence where more optimistic CEOs prefer to use more short term debt. Equivalently, in China, Brick et al (2006) a”
Board characteristics and company performance: Evidence from Nigeria (2014, background): “Abor (2007) reported positive relationship between board size and leverage.”
Moderating effects of corporate governance mechanism on the relation between capital structure and firm performance (2021, background): “Abor (2007) stated a significant and positive relationship between CG and financial decisions.”
Ownership structure, corporate governance and capital structure decisions of firms: Empirical evidence from Ghana (2009, background): “(2004) further indicate that larger board size results in lower cost of debt, which serves as a motivation for using more debt, and this has been confirmed by Abor (2007) who concludes that capital structure positively correlates with board size, among Ghanaian listed firms.”