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Holderness, Clifford G. - 1998

that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …

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The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes

Kala, Namrata - 2019

The allocation of decision rights within organizations influences resource allocation, expansion decisions, and ultimately outcomes. Using a newly constructed dataset, I estimate the effects of an earned autonomy program for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in India. The program gave managers (the...

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Enjoying the Quiet Life : Corporate Decision-Making by Entrenched Managers

Ikeda,, Naoshi - 2017

In this study, we empirically test "quiet life hypothesis," which predicts that managers who are subject to weak monitoring from the shareholders avoid making difficult decisions such as risky investment and business restructuring with Japanese firm data. We employ cross-shareholder and stable...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

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Shaped by Booms and Busts : How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles

Schoar, Antoinette - 2011

We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also have more conservative styles, such as lower...

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The State of Corporate Governance Research

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2009

This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...

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The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance : A Conceptual Framework and Survey

Adams, Renée - 2008

This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards are what determines their makeup and what determines their actions? These questions are...

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

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CEO Centrality

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2007

management and governance that deserves the attention of researchers …

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Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries

Burstein, Ariel - 2007

Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...

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