Employee treatment and firm leverage : a test of the stakeholder theory of capital structure
We investigate the stakeholder theory of capital structure from the perspective of a firm’s relations with its employees. We find that firms that treat their employees fairly (as measured by high employee‐friendly ratings) maintain low debt ratios. This result is robust to a variety of model specifi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100625 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18132 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |