The Effects of the Structure of the Board of Directors on the Performance of Small to Medium Scale Enterprises
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On the subject of the effects of the Board of Directors on the performance of the company, written articles have generally been limited to listed companies. The effects of the Board of Directors and their respective structure on the performance of the company consist of a subject matter that has been frequently researched in the literature by means of various different methods. In this particular study, the existence of the Board of Directors in SME’s and, if present, the effects of these in the performance of the company have been researched. In this context, a field research has been conducted with the search model by means of a simple random sampling. In addition, a poll has been performed on a one on one basis comprising a total of 703 voluntary companies that have a status of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) from several cities around Turkey, of which 204 operate in manufacturing, 347 in service and 152 both in manufacturing and service. The resulting data has been put together and analyzed. On the other hand, the poll that has been applied to the companies is composed of four sections, which consist of the complementary statistics, the decision making and resource generating capacity of the board of directors, the authority of the board of directors over the management processes and, lastly, the performance of the company. As a result of the study, it has been observed that the companies with a board of directors in SME’s demonstrate a higher performance when compared to the companies without a board of directors. Furthermore, the education levels of the members that take part in a board of directors have a positive effect on the performance, whereas the companies with a board of directors that have elected their chief executive officer have a positive effect on the performance of the company which is significantly higher than that of the board of directors where the president is nominated in accordance with the amount of shares that a member holds. Moreover, it has been proven that the structure and characteristics of a board of directors affect the performance of the company in a positive manner.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.028 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".