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Cumulative voting and the conflicts between board and minority shareholders

Zhao, Aiwu; Brehm, Alexander J. - In: Managerial Finance 37 (2011) 5, 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) 4, 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...

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Board and audit committee effectiveness in the post-ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations era

Safari, Maryam - In: Managerial Finance 43 (2017) 10, pp. 1137-1151

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the corporate governance literature by examining the aggregate effect of board and audit committee characteristics on earnings management practices, particularly in the period following the introduction of the second edition of the Australian...

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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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275428

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

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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Impact of board gender diversity on firm risk

Jane Lenard, Mary; Yu, Bing; Anne York, E.; Wu, Shengxiong - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014) 8, 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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The impact of social norms on female corporate board membership inclusion

Dewally, Michaël; Flaherty, Susan M.V.; Tomasi, Stella - In: Managerial Finance 43 (2017) 10, pp. 1093-1116

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document that religious adherence in the county of the corporate headquarter and educational attainment of the female director pool near the firm headquarters are influential to the likely addition of female corporate board directors....

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Female executives and corporate governance

Vähämaa, Emilia - In: Managerial Finance 43 (2017) 10, pp. 1056-1072

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the gender of the top executives is associated with the … defenses mechanisms. Originality/value Overall, these findings indicate that the gender of the firm’s executives may have … policies in numerous countries on gender quotas at the executive level. …

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Corporate Payouts in Dual Classes

Lei, Adam Y.C. - 2019

This paper provides empirical evidence showing that dual-class firms use dividend payments to mitigate agency problems while using repurchases of superior shares to maintain the private benefits of control. With a sample of dual-class firms from 1994 to 2015 that have both their superior voting...

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