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Large outside shareholders, outside boards, and management entrenchment influence the choice of inside or outside CEOs … stock ownership of large outside shareholders and the fraction of the board seats held by outsiders. It falls as management … consistent with the view that large outside shareholders play an active role in controlling manager-shareholder conflicts …
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The Dodd Frank Act (2010) empowered shareholders by mandating non-binding voting on executive compensation. This paper …
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fill voids caused by the inability of shareholder suits to monitor and discipline corporate managers. We further claim that …
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shareholders. As a result, these directors have incentives to go along with controllers' wishes, or, at least, inadequate … that allows policymakers to produce the precise balance of power between controlling shareholders and public investors that …
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We identify the power of institutional blockholders to influence management using previous occurrences of forced CEO …
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We examine the glass cliff proposition that female CEOs receive more scrutiny than male CEOs by investigating whether CEO gender is related to threats from activist investors in public firms. Activist investors are extra-organizational stakeholders who, when dissatisfied with some aspect of the...
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Stockholders are widely viewed as the owners of and residual claimants to the assets of a corporation. Management of a … corporation, by contrast, is entrusted to paid managers – the board of directors and executive officers. To prevent both directors … “director preference.” Given the prominence of executive officers in the corporate management scheme, often characterized by …
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Real estate developments are typically conducted through the medium of business entities intended to shield its owners of individual liability. Corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships have traditionally been viewed as effective mechanisms to accomplish this outcome....
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This paper shows that proxy contests have a significant adverse effect on careers of incumbent directors. Following a proxy contest, directors experience a significant decline in number of directorships not only in the targeted company, but also in other non-targeted companies. The results are...
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We investigate whether managerial ownership enhances firm value by exploiting exogenous variation resulting from stock price reactions to blockholder deaths. We find, first, that the average stock price reaction to the sudden death of inside blockholders ranges from -5% for small ownership...
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