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Are Good Managers Required for a Separation of Ownership and Control?

Cheffins, Brian R - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

is delegated to a cohort of full?time executives, there needs to be “good” managers. In Britain, however, ownership …

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Corporate Governance, The Limits of Rationality and Proceduralisation

J, Paterson - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

A striking feature of theorising about corporate governance, whether from the perspective of economics or in terms of a stakeholder model of the company, is that even quite basic questions posed at the outset remain to be answered. Thus, in the case of economic theorising about the firm, it has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813012

Shareholder Protection around the World ("Leximetric II")

Siems, Mathias - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

This article analyzes how shareholder protection has developed in 20 countries from 1995 to 2005. In contrast to traditional legal research, it draws on a quanti-tative methodology to law ("leximetrics", "numerical comparative law"). Some of its results are that in most countries shareholder...

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How do family ties, boards and regulation affect pay at the top? Evidence for Indian CEOs

Fagernäs, Sonja - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

market pressure shape the power relations between the board and managers, and affect the level and structure of CEO pay. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162824

Shareholder Protection: A Leximetric Approach

Siems, Mathias; Lele, Priya - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

In this paper we build a new and meaningful shareholder protection index for five countries and code the development of the law for over three decades. At-tributing and comparing legal differences by numbers is contrary to the tradi-tional way of doing comparative law and the use of a...

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Corporate profitability and the dynamics of competition in emerging markets: a time series analysis

Glen, Jack; Lee, Kevin; Singh, Ajit - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

the persistence of the two components of profitability - capital-output ratios and profit margins. These too raise …

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Does Law Matter?: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom

Cheffins, Brian - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

ownership and strong managers, in the United Kingdom. The experience in Britain is instructive because, with respect to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162856

The corporate-fund manager interface: objectives, information and valuation

Roberts, John; Sanderson, Paul; Hendry, John; Barker, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

Fund managers are the primary investment decision-makers in the stock market, and corporate executives are their … findings from interview research conducted with chief financial officers (CFOs) and investor relations managers from FTSE 100 … companies and with chief investment officers (CIOs) and fund managers (FMs) from large institutional investors. Of particular …

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Responsible ownership, shareholder value and the new shareholder activism

Roberts, John; Sanderson, Paul; Hendry, John; Barker, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

the institutions own profit maximisation and the need to position themselves against competitor institutions in the …

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UK Corporate Governance and Takeover Performance

Cosh, Andy; Guest, Paul; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

This chapter addresses the changing nature of corporate governance in the United Kingdom over recent decades and examines whether these changes have had an impact on the UK market for corporate control. The disappointing outcomes for acquiring company shareholders in the majority of corporate...

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