The professional service firm (PSF) in a globalised economy: A study of the efficiency of securities firms in an emerging market

Mehmet Demirbag, Martina McGuinness, Ahmet Akin, Nizamettin Bayyurt and Eyup Basti

International Business Review, 2016, vol. 25, issue 5, 1089-1102

Abstract: This study explores the efficiency of securities firms in Turkey and offers conceptual and managerial insights utilizing data envelopment analysis. Through a sample of local and foreign owned securities firms in Turkey, we examine the impact of liabilities of foreignness (LOF) and localness (LOL) upon knowledge intensive firm efficiency in an emerging market economy. We have extended this approach through our consideration of liability associated with market globalness (LOMG). Our findings indicate the importance of size for firm efficiency with bank affiliation and foreign ownership also having positive effects on efficiency. Our study makes a contribution conceptually, methodologically and empirically to a growing literature on emerging economies. We also make a valuable addition to the limited empirical work conducted on the securities industry to date. Finally, through our contextualization of Turkish securities firms as professional services firms (PSFs), our research extends the narrow focus on law and accounting which currently dominates the burgeoning research strand on PSFs.

Keywords: Performance; Securities firms; Firm ownership; Affiliation; Size; Liability of foreignness; Ownership; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Professional services firm (PSF) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.01.001

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