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Female-led firms : performance and risk attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128850
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Firm performance and managerial turnover : the case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894422
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Performance effects of appointing other firms' executive directors to corporate boards : an analysis of UK firms
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Weir, Charlie - 2014
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246653
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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017
bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625327
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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021
reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431585
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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871
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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019226
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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control : evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinec, Irina V.; Ilina, Julja; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524994
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Why so few women on boards of directors? : empirical evidence from Danish companies 1997 - 2007
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in 2007 and has only slowly increased during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201307
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326393