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This study investigates the influence of ownership structure and capital structure on the survival of firms on Iran's stock market from 2005 to 2015. Firm survival is measured in terms of the exit of the firm “i” in year “t” from among 484 firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange. We have used a binary logistic regression method to test the hypotheses. The results reveal a significant inverse relationship between capital structure and firm survival and between major ownership and firm survival on the stock market, as well as a significant direct relationship between institutional ownership and firm survival. Thus, firms with a higher ratio of debt to assets have a higher probability of survival. However, those with a higher ratio of institutional ownership are less likely to survive.

This empirical study explores the impact of knowledge development factors, parent firm-specific and subsidiary characteristics on foreign affiliated performance. First, we examine the ownership and performance (based on return on asset, return on sales and profitability) of foreign affiliated in Japan. Second, we extend the subsidiary’s factors with parent company’s firm factors in order to analyze the performance and ownership advantages based on wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) and international joint venture (IJV). Third, we explore the relationship between firm factors and foreign ownership ratio.Our finding suggested that first, when a subsidiary operates in the manufacturing industry; MNCs prefer to have a majority of equity ownership.Second, the factors of industry, foreign employees and size of parent firm and subsidiary, demonstrate a statistically significant on performance. Finally, our findings indicate that foreign ownership ratio has a positive relationship with knowledge transfer factors, import and export ratio of foreign affiliates.

This empirical study explores first the relationship between type of industry and subsidiary age, export ratio and MNCs’ firm factors. Second, we examined the impact of country of origin, foreign ownership and parent’s specific factors on asset growth ratio (AGR). Based on data derived from 2500 foreign companies in Japan, the findings show that the factors of foreign ownership, experience in host market, country of origin, export and parents company’s sales and the number of employees as a proxy of firm size have significantly effect on AGR. Also our finding shows that foreign companies in manufacturing industries are more likely to be as an international joint venture with a foreign manager and higher ratio of import and greater number of foreign employees. Finally, contrary to our expectations, we found that the total asset of parent company has negatively associated with type of industry. In the other word, firms in service industries are more likely to have greater total asset than those in manufacturing sectors.