The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance The Case of Romanian listed Companies

This paper offers an investigation at a micro-level of entrepreneurship in the business environment. More precisely, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance in the case of the Romanian nonfinancial listed companies. We use publ...

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Main Authors: Nadia Albu, Ruxandra Adriana Mateescu
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Language:English
Published: Editura ASE 2015-02-01
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Online Access:http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2370
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description This paper offers an investigation at a micro-level of entrepreneurship in the business environment. More precisely, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance in the case of the Romanian nonfinancial listed companies. We use publicly-available information (financial statements, annual reports) and we mobilize a framework derived from the agency and signalling theories to interpret our findings from the statistical analysis based on correlations. Our results suggest that there are differences between industries and between the companies included or not in the new BET-TR index in terms of corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance practices and disclosures. Agency theory partly explains our findings. Specifically, some corporate governance mechanisms, i.e. board independence and institutional ownership, are associated in our sample with corporate entrepreneurship. We thus document that corporate governance as a controlling and management technique fosters corporate entrepreneurship in Romanian companies. Signalling theory assumptions are generally not verified for the companies in our study. There are only a few associations between high values of corporate entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship disclosures, and even fewer between corporate governance practices and corporate governance disclosures.
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spelling doaj-art-783050a7ddb146a68aa960d3029d3a0d2025-08-20T03:35:12ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042015-02-0117384459The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance The Case of Romanian listed CompaniesNadia Albu 0Ruxandra Adriana Mateescu 1The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaBucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaThis paper offers an investigation at a micro-level of entrepreneurship in the business environment. More precisely, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance in the case of the Romanian nonfinancial listed companies. We use publicly-available information (financial statements, annual reports) and we mobilize a framework derived from the agency and signalling theories to interpret our findings from the statistical analysis based on correlations. Our results suggest that there are differences between industries and between the companies included or not in the new BET-TR index in terms of corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance practices and disclosures. Agency theory partly explains our findings. Specifically, some corporate governance mechanisms, i.e. board independence and institutional ownership, are associated in our sample with corporate entrepreneurship. We thus document that corporate governance as a controlling and management technique fosters corporate entrepreneurship in Romanian companies. Signalling theory assumptions are generally not verified for the companies in our study. There are only a few associations between high values of corporate entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship disclosures, and even fewer between corporate governance practices and corporate governance disclosures.http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2370corporate entrepreneurshipcorporate governanceRomaniaagency theorysignalling theory
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance The Case of Romanian listed Companies
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agency theory
signalling theory
title The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance The Case of Romanian listed Companies
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title_short The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance The Case of Romanian listed Companies
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corporate governance
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agency theory
signalling theory
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