A meta-analysis of risk taking and corporate performance

Artikel

Risk-taking is a topic that has been studied for many years in finance under the famous slogan in the financial industry "Higher risk, higher return". Nevertheless, empirical results have shown different scenarios. Using a sample of 56 researches with 406 studies covering millions of companies globally in the period from 2010 to 2020, this study applies a meta-analysis approach-a synthetic analysis approach to better understand the relationship between risk-taking and corporate return. Specifically, the studied risk-taking variables are: Leverage, Research and Development costs (R&D), and Firm Size; besides, the corporate return variables are Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Return on Sales (ROS), and Profit After Tax (PAT) standing for Accounting performance measures and Tobin's Q and Market to Book Value (MBV) standing for Market performance measures. Finally, the results have shown that Leverage, R&D, and Size have decent impacts on corporate returns, both Accounting performance and Market performance. Despite having some limitations, the study has provided critical insights into the literature review and established a big picture of the relationship between risk-taking and corporate return.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Cogent Business & Management ; ISSN: 2331-1975 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-59

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Management
• Thema: firm size ; leverage ; Meta-analysis ; performance ; R&D ; risk-taking

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Pham, Phuong My Thi ; Dao, Binh Thanh Thi
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Taylor & Francis
• (wo): Abingdon
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1080/23311975.2022.2064263
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ