Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1998
Keywords
Board of directors, Corporate governance, Board-size effect, Empirical legal studies
Disciplines
Applied Statistics | Banking and Finance Law | Business Organizations Law
Abstract
Several studies hypothesize a relation between board size and financial performance. Empirical tests of the relation exist in only a few studies of large U.S. firms. We find a significant negative correlation between board size and profitability in a sample of small and midsize Finnish firms. Finding a board-size effect for a new and different class of firms affects the range of explanations for the board-size effect.
Recommended Citation
Eisenberg, Theodore; Sundgren, Stefan; and Wells, Martin T., "Larger Board Size and Decreasing Firm Value in Small Firms" (1998). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 393.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/393
Publication Citation
Theodore Eisenberg et al., "Larger Board Size and Decreasing Firm Value in Small Firms", 48 Journal of Financial Economics (1998)
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