Explaining the Relationship between Product Market Competition and Corporate Governance

This paper examines the relationship between the degree of competition a firm faces and its corporate governance, given that product market competition acts as an external mechanism for corporate governance. The sample consists of 212 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during the pe...

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Autores principales: Mohammad Hosein Safarzadeh, Afsaneh Rafiee
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1eb210f167854167b0543b1640e880612021-11-04T19:47:20ZExplaining the Relationship between Product Market Competition and Corporate Governance2008-89142476-292X10.22103/jak.2014.858https://doaj.org/article/1eb210f167854167b0543b1640e880612014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jak.uk.ac.ir/article_858_0eaf1d3880cc025ced547addfebf7320.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2008-8914https://doaj.org/toc/2476-292XThis paper examines the relationship between the degree of competition a firm faces and its corporate governance, given that product market competition acts as an external mechanism for corporate governance. The sample consists of 212 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period of 1386-1391. A multi-dimensional approach has been taken to measure corporate governance, and two indicators are used to measure product market competition. The result shows that firms in competitive industries or with low market power have weak corporate governance structure. This result is robust after controlling firm-specific variables, and using various competition measures at firm level. The findings suggest that product market competition has a substantial effect on corporate governance, and that product market competition could be regarded as substitute for corporate governance quality. Furthermore, the result reveals that disaggregating the corporate governance measure into more components causes the explanatory power of the models decreasing and the results being insignificantMohammad Hosein SafarzadehAfsaneh RafieeShahid Bahonar University of Kermanarticlecorporate governanceprocuct market competitionmulti-dimensional indexherfindal indexlerner indexAccounting. BookkeepingHF5601-5689FAمجله دانش حسابداری, Vol 5, Iss 18, Pp 25-48 (2014)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language FA
topic corporate governance
procuct market competition
multi-dimensional index
herfindal index
lerner index
Accounting. Bookkeeping
HF5601-5689
spellingShingle corporate governance
procuct market competition
multi-dimensional index
herfindal index
lerner index
Accounting. Bookkeeping
HF5601-5689
Mohammad Hosein Safarzadeh
Afsaneh Rafiee
Explaining the Relationship between Product Market Competition and Corporate Governance
description This paper examines the relationship between the degree of competition a firm faces and its corporate governance, given that product market competition acts as an external mechanism for corporate governance. The sample consists of 212 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period of 1386-1391. A multi-dimensional approach has been taken to measure corporate governance, and two indicators are used to measure product market competition. The result shows that firms in competitive industries or with low market power have weak corporate governance structure. This result is robust after controlling firm-specific variables, and using various competition measures at firm level. The findings suggest that product market competition has a substantial effect on corporate governance, and that product market competition could be regarded as substitute for corporate governance quality. Furthermore, the result reveals that disaggregating the corporate governance measure into more components causes the explanatory power of the models decreasing and the results being insignificant
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title Explaining the Relationship between Product Market Competition and Corporate Governance
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