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Private Equity, LBOs, and Corporate Governance : International Evidence

Siegel, Donald S. - 2011

We review the governance role of private equity (PE) firms in companies that have experienced an LBO. We conjecture that PE firms may provide powerful remedies to agency conflicts associated with public and private firms, such as managerial entrenchment and opportunism

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Corporate Governance, Human Resource Management and Firm Performance

Filatotchev, Igor; Guest, David; Piesse, Jenifer; … - 2006

, Germany and Japan …

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Endogenous ownership structure : factors affecting the post-privatisation equity in largest Hungarian firms

Bishop, Kate; Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2002

Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by both foreign investors and by Hungarian corporations. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneous equity structures, where...

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Corporate Governance, Managers' Independence, Exporting and Performance of Firms in Transition Economies

Filatotchev, Igor; Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers' independence from owners in terms of strategic decision …-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers' independence is positively associated with firms' financial performance … and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers' independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …

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Endogenous ownership structure: Factors affecting the post-privatisation equity in largest Hungarian firms

Bishop, Kate; Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2002

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“Ownership Concentration, ‘Private Benefits of Control’and Debt Financing

Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2001

Building on the ‘law and economics’ literature, this paper analyses corporategovernance implications of debt financing in an environment where a dominant owner isable to extract ex ante ‘private benefits of control’. Ownership concentration may result inlower efficiency, measured as a...

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Corporate Governance, Managers’ Independence, Exporting And Performance Of Firms In Transition Economies

Filatotchev, Igor; Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision …-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers’ independence is positively associated with firms’ financial performance … and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers’ independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …

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