CORPORATE PERFORMANCE AND CEO DISMISSAL: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CATEGORY FAULTLINES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Vandebeek ◽  
Wim Voordeckers ◽  
Jolien Huybrechts ◽  
Frank Lambrechts
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Ceo Dismissal

scholarly journals Ownership Concentration and Performance Recovery Patterns in the European Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Horobet ◽  
Lucian Belascu ◽  
Ștefania Curea ◽  
Alma Pentescu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Our study addresses the link between ownership concentration and corporate performance in the manufacturing sector in the European Union in an economic environment stressed by the global financial and sovereign debt crises. This is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to tackle differences between companies with different origin-countries in EU from the perspective of ownership concentration and corporate performance in a period marked by the adverse impact of the global financial crisis. Ownership concentration is measured by the number of shareholders and the percentage of their individual and collective holdings, while performance is measured by accounting-based and market-based indicators. Our results, based on a detailed and methodical statistical analysis, show a clear division between Western and Eastern companies in terms of ownership concentration and performance, with an impact on businesses’ recovery patterns. Overall, there is a positive link between ownership concentration and corporate performance in the case of Western companies, but not for Eastern-based companies. Moreover, ownership concentration has supported business recovery in EU, but particularly for Western companies. On the other hand, our results suggest that market investors’ assessment of corporate performance is disconnected from business fundamentals and do not acknowledge the role of ownership concentration (either beneficial of detrimental) for performance assessment.

Leaving as a Wife, Leaving as a Mother

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAREN E. ROSENBLUM
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Status

This discussion begins with the conviction that we need to examine the meaning of the decision to relinquish child custody rather than its causes. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with 20 noncustodial mothers, it is shown that mothers relinquish custody either “as wives” or “as mothers,” and by that is meant the status that is made salient in their leaving. “Leaving as a wife” reflects a decision primarily responsive to husband's acts or wishes; “leaving as a mother” reflects a reaction to a particular child or to the role of child rearer. Whereas these two ways of leaving home are different in their meaning and consequence, social reaction appears to treat them as a unitary social category. This collapsing of the categories points to the preeminence of motherhood for women.

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