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Enhancing survey‐based investment forecasts (2018)
Journal Article
Driver, C., & Meade, N. (2019). Enhancing survey‐based investment forecasts. Journal of Forecasting, 38(3), 236-255. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2567

We investigate the accuracy of capital investment predictors from a national business survey of South African manufacturing. Based on data available to correspondents at the time of survey completion, we propose variables that might affect the stabil... Read More about Enhancing survey‐based investment forecasts.

Financial Constraints on Investment: Effects of Firm Size and the Financial Crisis (2018)
Journal Article
Driver, C., & Muñoz-Bugarin, J. (2019). Financial Constraints on Investment: Effects of Firm Size and the Financial Crisis. Research in International Business and Finance, 47, 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.09.006

We estimate the effect of external financial constraints on fixed investment intentions for UK manufacturing by size of firm distinguishing between normal effects and those since the financial crisis began in the UK in 2007. Our financial constraints... Read More about Financial Constraints on Investment: Effects of Firm Size and the Financial Crisis.

Corporate Governance in Contention (2018)
Book
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (Eds.). (2018). Corporate Governance in Contention. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.001.0001

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - indep... Read More about Corporate Governance in Contention.

Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue? (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C. (2018). Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (239-260). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0011

In this chapter I first review the current state of play in corporate governance debates, highlighting challenges to the dominant agency view. Following a critique of the economic reasoning supporting shareholder primacy I consider two contrasting ap... Read More about Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?.

Corporate Governance and Why it Matters (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (2018). Corporate Governance and Why it Matters. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (1-24). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0001

This chapter introduces the idea of governance and proceeds to a structured discussion of what corporate governance means and why it matters. The discussion is divided into three themes: the first deals with enterprise—long-run commitments that firms... Read More about Corporate Governance and Why it Matters.