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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China : evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

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Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs : does government ownership reduce corporate value?

Tian, Lihui (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized …

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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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CEO stress, aging, and death

Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - 2023

We assess the long-term effects of managerial stress on aging and mortality. First, we show that exposure to industry distress shocks during the Great Recession produces visible signs of aging in CEOs. Applying neural-network based machine-learning techniques to pre- and post-distress pictures,...

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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom

Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024

We join the scholarly conversation on the implications of the different configurations of firms' stakeholder coalitions for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards of directors (employee governance representation, EGR)...

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The effects of board gender quotas : a meta-analysis

De Acutis, Costanza; Weber, Andrea; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024

We use a meta-analysis to summarize the recent literature evaluating effects of the introduction of gender quotas on company boards. We collect data from 51 studies on policies implemented in 11 countries from which we extract 496 estimates. The literature considers the effects of quota policies...

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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...

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