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The influence of social capital on CEO dismissal in Germany : an empirical analysis
Wrage, Markus; Tuschke, Anja; Bresser, Rudi K. F. - 2011
In this study, we address the question of why some CEOs stay in office during a performance downturn while others don't. Based on a social capital perspective we assume that (1) the social capital endowment of an underperforming CEO may reduce the risk of getting dismissed and that (2) the...
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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012
Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Müller, Elisabeth; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2001
We analyze the relationship between managerial ownership and company performance, testing the incentive and entrenchment hypothesis. Differently from previous literature, we focus on small and medium-sized private enterprises which constitute an important part of the German economy. We use a...
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Führung in Teilzeit? : eine empirische Analyse zur Verbreitung von Teilzeitarbeit unter Führungskräften in Deutschland und Europa
Hipp, Lena; Sauermann, Armin; Stuth, Stefan - 2022
, um Teilzeitarbeit von Führungskräften in Deutschland sowohl im zeitlichen als auch im internationalen Vergleich … Auswertungen zeigen: In Deutschland arbeiteten im Jahr 2019 laut eigener Aussage rund 14 Prozent der Führungskräfte in Teilzeit. Im … europäischen Vergleich gehört Deutschland damit zu den Ländern mit dem höchsten Anteil an teilzeitarbeitenden Führungskräften. Die …
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Crisis? : what Crisis? : currency vs. banking in the financial crisis of 1931
Ritschl, Albrecht; Salferaz, Samad - 2010
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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999
Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after unification. Our paper presents results from the estimation...
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Foreign agents? : natural resources & the political economy of civil society
Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational density determines the extent to which citizens can...
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Reconceptualising governance
1997
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Conflicts between state and civil society related to infrastructure projects
Hochstetler, Kathryn Ann - 2016
Environmental impact assessment is currently the major Brazilian institution that routinely seeks community input about infrastructure projects. It is criticized both by activists who think it permits projects it should not and by project proponents who think that it is too slow and blocks...
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