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Do all new brooms sweep clean? : evidence for outside bank appointments

Kick, Thomas; Nehring, Inge; Schertler, Andrea - 2017

Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...

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Welcome on board? : appointment dynamics of women as directors

Schoonjans, Eline; Hottenrott, Hanna; Buchwald, Achim - 2023

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

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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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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees

Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowski, Ulrich; … - 2023

Employment protection harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages (Leonardi and Pica, 2013). We demonstrate that this pattern can result from employers exploiting na¨ıve present-biased employees. Employers offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages,...

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Firm acquisitions by family firms : a mixed gamble approach

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Abdul-Basit - 2019

behavioural agency predictions, but can be reconciled with theory through a mixed gambles' lens. …

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The demand for executive skills

Fuller, Joe; Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, … - 2021

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Cluster externalities, firm capabilities, and the recessionary shock : how the macro-to-micro-transition shapes firm performance during stable times and times of crisis

Hundt, Christian; Holtermann, Linus; Steeger, Jonas; … - 2019

In this paper, we examine the macro-to-micro-transition of cluster externalities to firms and how it is affected by the …-to-micro-transition that evolves best in the case of broad firm-level capabilities and variety-driven externalities. Furthermore, the results … externalities and adequate firm-level combinative capabilities. In contrast to previous studies on this topic, the transition …

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be …. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local markets over recruitment of competent candidates and local organizers … authoritarian and persistently "bad" leadership. Our model can be applied to other labor recruitment settings. …

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The value of a loss : the impact of restricting tax loss transfers

Bührle, Anna Theresa; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Stage, Barbara - 2023 - This version: August 2023

We study the economic consequences of anti-loss trafficking rules, which disallow the use of loss carry-forwards as tax shield after a substantial ownership change. Using staggered changes to these rules, we find that limiting the transfer of tax losses reduces the number of M&As with...

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Foreclosure and profit shifting with partial vertical ownership

Hunold, Matthias; Petrishcheva, Vasilisa - 2024

We demonstrate how the incentives of firms that partially own their suppliers or customers to foreclose rivals depend on how the partial owner can extract profits from the target. Compared to a fully vertically integrated firm, a partial owner may obtain only a share of the target's profit but...

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