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Privatization and labor force restructuring around the world
Chong, Alberto; López-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2002
establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598290
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Cultural rights and civic virtue
Ford, Richard T. - 2003
This paper addresses the potential tension between two broadly stated policy objectives: the preservation of distinctive cultural traditions, often through the mechanism of formal legal rights, and the fostering of civic virtue, a sense of local community and the advancement of common civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592750
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Corporate governance, favoritism and careers
Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206269
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The impact economy : balancing profit and impact
Schoenmaker, Dirk - 2020
How can governments and companies be jointly empowered to have a positive impact on the sustainable development goals? The current economic system is largely geared towards increasing economic growth. But this could come at the expense of rising social inequality and environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302045
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Monitoring the governance of state-owned enterprises : assessing the impact of corporate governance reforms in Brazil
Coelho, Daphne; Teodorovicz, Thomaz; Fritscher, André … - 2024
state ownership. This paper examines Brazil's efforts to address agency conflicts in SOEs, including new legislation (Law … 13303 of 2016, the “Law on SOEs”) establishing stringent criteria for the appointment of executives and for the …-stringent governance requirements of the Law on SOEs was detected, the group of federal SOEs, which adopted the IG-SEST monitoring …
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Corporate response to distress : evidence from the Asian financial crisis
Faccio, Mara (contributor); Sengupta, Rajdeep (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740113
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Taxes, institutions and foreign diversification opportunities
Desai, Mihir A.; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846902
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Incorporation and taxation : theory and firm-level evidence Peter Egger; Christian Keuschnigg; Hannes Winner
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847019
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Corporate governance practices and companies' R&D orientation : evidence from European countries
Honoré, Florence; Munari, Federico; Van Pottelsberghe … - 2011
This paper empirically investigates if corporate governance practices affect the resources firms devote to R&D. Two databases - one on governance ratings and the other on R&D intensity - are merged to obtain a multi-country, multi-sector sample of 279 European companies involved in R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907733
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Monitoring managers : does it matter?
Cornelli, Francesca; Kominek, Zbigniew; Ljungqvist, … - 2010
We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance. We exploit exogenous variation due to the staggered adoption of corporate governance laws in formerly Communist countries coupled with detailed ‘hard’ information about the...
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