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Cumulative voting and the conflicts between board and minority shareholders
Zhao, Aiwu; Brehm, Alexander J. - In: Managerial Finance 37 (2011) May, pp. 465-473
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether cumulative voting can help ease the conflicts between board of directors and minority shareholders. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use voting result of shareholder proposals as an indicator of the level of conflicts...
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Monitoring CEOs: can insider-dominated boards do a good job?
Wang, Yuwei - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014), pp. 355-375
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the monitoring effectiveness of insider-dominated boards and outsider-dominated boards on different types of CEOs. Design/methodology/approach -To test whether boards monitor inside CEOs and outside CEOs differently and to compare the sizes of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757797
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Efficacité des structures de contrôle et enracinement des dirigeants
Alexandre, Hervé; Paquerot, Mathieu - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000
In the theoretical framework of corporate governance this article studies the efficiency of the control exerted by the ownership structure and the board of directors on managers. The confrontation of entrenchment theory and agency theory allows to determine the necessary conditions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861596
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Reforming Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Choice between Unitary versus Dual Boards of Directors
Sushka, Marie; Slovin, Myron; Ginglinger, Edith; Belot, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Contemporary governance reform proposals focus on strengthening board monitoring but recent theoretical models find that a passive board is often optimal. We examine board structure choice in France where for 45 years firms have been free to choose between a unitary board and a dual board...
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Lessons from The French Exception: How Firms Choose Between Unitary and Dual Boards
Sushka, Marie; Slovin, Myron; Ginglinger, Edith; Belot, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Many governance reform proposals focus on strengthening board monitoring. In contrast, Adams and Ferreira (2007) and Harris and Raviv (2008) conclude that a passive board is often optimal. We examine determinants of board structure choice in France, where firms are free to choose between a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708698
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Freedom of Choice between Unitary and Two-Tier Boards: An Empirical Analysis
Belot, François; Ginglinger, Edith; Slovin, Myron B.; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
We examine board structure in France, which since 1966 has allowed firms freedom to choose between unitary and two-tier boards. We analyze how this choice relates to characteristics of the firm and its environment. Firms with severe asymmetric information tend to opt for unitary boards; firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783759
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Strategies for business schools in a multi-polar world
Dameron, Stéphanie; Durand, Thomas - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
operating in the diversity of a multi-polar world. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a critical review of the … diversity of a multi-polar world. This tension may be resolved by business schools following more distinctive strategies that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737655
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The role of regulatory and temporal context in the construction of diversity discourses: The case of the UK, France and Germany
Tatli, Ahu; Vassilipoulou, Joana; Al Ariss, Akram; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Despite growing interest in how the concept of diversity management is reinterpreted as it crosses national boundaries … of diversity discourses in the context of the UK, France and Germany. We use the discursive politics approach to … investigate the ways in which the meaning of diversity is shrunk, bent and stretched. We demonstrate that the concept of diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706708
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Les politiques de gestion de la diversité dans les organisations : Proposition de typologie à l'usage des chercheurs et des entreprises
Haas, Aurore; Shimada, Sakura - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
This research establishes a framework for implementing diversity policies in organizations and offers suggested avenues … for action. Contextualizing the discussion within the emergence and evolution of diversity in the USA and in France, the … authors illustrate the contextual contingency of the notion of 'diversity', the tensions that its exportation to new contexts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074386
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To make risk invisible: the institutionalization of the relationship between the board of directors and the auditors
Richard, Chrystelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
Despite recent discoveries of embezzlement and excessive risk taking in subsidiary companies of several large French corporations (Vivendi, France Telecom, ...), companies rarely question the quality of the relationship they have with their auditors. The objective of this research paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072185