work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …

penalty affect their monitoring. Our results suggest that they are more likely to vote against management after observing how …

responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …

from shareholders to directors. We also find that there was little pressure--from the government, the financial press …, shareholders, or the market--to adopt governance structures that afforded minority investors greater protection. Although there …

across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us …Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences …

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …