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Given the importance of governance systems in companies and to all its partners, collective responsibility of the different governance devices has been highlighted. The role of the Board which can be viewed as a body of supreme control remains highly controversial in the in different...
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How does Social Media (SM) impact the Stakeholder Theory and the stakeholder environment of organizations? This paper focuses on stakeholder coalitions and SM-driven social movements. Organized resistance and mounted pressure, which disrupt corporations’ activities and oblige change, are a...
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ownership structure and the board of directors on managers. The confrontation of entrenchment theory and agency theory allows to …
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The analyses of the tender offer premiums and of the means of payment should not be performed separately. In the empirical literature, these two variables are often considered independently, although they may have an endogenous relationship in a contractual setting. Using a sample of European...
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This paper examines the impact of market liquidity on seasoned equity offerings (SEO) characteristics in France. We find that, besides blockholders’ takeup, liquidity is an important determinant of SEO flotation method choice. We document higher direct equity offering flotation costs, but also...
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modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of capital. A simple model is used to show that debt appears to be a key …
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the leverage ratio than to modify their share of capital. A sample of 112 firms listed on the French stock market over the … leverage. At low levels of ownership, controlling shareholders use more debt in order to inflate their stake in capital and to … firm's leverage ratio. Empirically, it is shown that the inflection point where the sign of the relationship between …
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In listed companies, some shareholders can be signatories to agreements that govern their relations. Such agreements are often viewed as means of insulating the firm from the market for corporate control. Specific provisions (namely concerted action, pre-emptive buying rights and repartitioning...
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We examine how ownership concentration and the separation of ownership and control affect market liquidity in France. We find that firms with a large insider blockholder exhibit significantly lower liquidity. Different methods of concentrating control affect liquidity in different ways. Pyramid...
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