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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...
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Impact of board gender diversity on firm risk
Lenard, Mary Jane; Yu, Bing; York, E. Anne; Wu, Shengxiong - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014), pp. 787-803
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to study gender diversity on the board of directors and the relation to risk …-2011. The authors then measure the effect of gender diversity on corporate performance in terms of firm risk, using the model by … Cheng (2008) which measures the variability of stock market return. Findings -The study shows that more gender diversity on …
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Directors’ remuneration, governance and performance: the case of Malaysian banks
Lee, Siew Peng; Isa, Mansor - In: Managerial Finance 41 (2015), pp. 26-44
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between directors’ remuneration and performance and corporate governance in the Malaysian banking sector, using panel data for 21 banks over the period 2003-2011. Design/methodology/approach -The authors use multivariate...
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The economic determinants of compensation committee quality
Sun, Jerry; Cahan, Steven F.; Busenbark, John R. - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012), pp. 188-205
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic determinants of compensation committee quality. Design/methodology/approach – Sample firms were selected from the IRRC Directors' database. Compensation committee quality is measured as the factor score from a principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814819
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Control structures and payout policy
Renneboog, Luc; Trojanowski, Grzegorz - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007), pp. 43-64
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine whether or not divident policy is influenced by the firm's corporate control structure, investigating the relationship between the dynamics of earnings payout and the voting power enjoyed by different types of shareholders. This allows one to test a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814865
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Board compensation, holdings and mutual fund expense ratios
Fricke, Eric - In: Managerial Finance 39 (2013) February, pp. 228-250
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how board compensation and holdings are related to mutual fund expense ratios. Previous studies find that compensation and expense ratios are positively correlated and argue that this relationship is potential evidence of rent sharing, whereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814866
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The impact of corporate governance on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting by Egyptian listed companies
Ezat, Amr; El-Masry, Ahmed - In: Managerial Finance 34 (2008), pp. 848-867
Purpose -This study seeks to examine the key factors that affect the timeliness of corporate internet reporting (CIR) by the Egyptian listed corporations on the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach - The authors use firm characteristics and corporate governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814869
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Managerial opportunism and proportional corporate payout policies
Douglas, Alan V. - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007), pp. 26-42
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relative preference for dividends vs share repurchases based on managers’ personal wealth and control benefits. Design/methodology/approach - The paper presents an analytical model of managerial preferences and information advantages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814872
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Agency costs of stakeholders and capital structure: international evidence
Yu, Bing - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012), pp. 303-324
Purpose - This paper examines relationship between bargaining powers of creditors as well as employees and financial leverage across countries. The purpose of this paper is to explore roles of creditors and employees in capital structure decisions under different legal and political regimes...
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