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The role of the board in firm strategy: Integrating agency and organisational control perspectives
Hendry, Kevin; Kiel, Geoffrey C. - 2004
The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has long been the subject of debate. However, research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies: the lack of an overarching theoretical perspective, reliance on proxies for the strategy role rather than a direct measure of it and the...
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The Effect of Governance on Credit Decisions and Perceptions of Reporting Reliability
Holder-Webb, Lori; Sharma, Divesh S. - 2010
We conduct an experiment to examine how lending decisions are affected by lender perceptions of reporting and governance quality. We perform a set of experiments to determine whether lenders are sensitive to the quality of governance as measured by board composition along multiple dimensions,...
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Mittelstands- und Innovationsfinanzierung in Deutschland : Ergebnisse und Hintergr?nde einer bundesweiten Unternehmensbefragung
Hummel, Detlev - 2011
Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Unternehmensbefragung zum Finanzierungsverhalten deutscher KMU. Im Fokus stehen die Verf?gbarkeit konkreter Finanzierungsinstrumente f?r KMU und deren Akzeptanz im Mittelstand. Dies soll die derzeitigen M?glichkeiten und Grenzen...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, exceptions and implications
Amaeshi, Kenneth; Osuji, Onyeka Kingsley; Nnodim, Paul - 2009
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly becoming a popular business concept in developed economies. As typical of other business concepts, it is on its way to globalization through practices and structures of the globalized capitalist world order, typified in Multinational...
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Earn-out-Strukturen beim Verkauf von Konzerneinheiten an Beteiligungsgesellschaften
Mülke, Maximilian - 2010
sogenannten Konzern-Sell-offs, den Verkauf von Konzerneinheiten, in diesem Fall an eine Beteiligungsgesellschaft (auch Private …, Informationsasymmetrie und sogar Fehlen von Informationen – die diese Konzern-Sell-offs (häufig auch Carve-outs genannt; gemeint ist der …-out-Strukturen im Fall von Konzern-Sell-offs an Beteiligungsgesell-schaften angewandt werden können, um dem bei Konzern-Sell-offs häufig …
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Analyse der steuerlichen Einflußfaktoren grenzüberschreitender Vertriebsalternativen inländischer Kapitalgesellschaften
Wassermeyer, Steffen - 2005
Die Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung des Vertriebs waren in den letzten Jahren einem erheblichenWandel unterworfen. Die starre Orientierung an Landesgrenzen ist durch die Entwicklung desMediums Internet sowie der gestiegenen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten obsolet geworden. Mitder damit einhergehenden...
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Diffusion of corporate governance practices : the Dutch response to pressures for shareholder value
Bezemer, Pieter-Jan; Zajac, Edward; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2011
As part of a larger literature focused on identifying and relating the antecedents and consequences of diffusing organizational practices/ideas, recent research has debated the international adoption of a shareholder-value-orientation (SVO). The debate has financial economists characterizing the...
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On the relation between ownership structure and capital structure
Brailsford, T. J.; Oliver, B.R.; Pua, S.L.H. - 2002
The agency relationship between managers and shareholders has the potential to influence decision-making in the firm which in turn potentially impacts on firm characteristics such as value and leverage. Prior evidence has demonstrated an association between ownership structure and firm value....
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
Kayanga, Andrew Mulindwa - 2009
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the relation between corporate governance and firm performance. The theme of this study is that the widely documented long-term underperformance in equity carve-outs can be partly explained by weak corporate governance.The first essay...
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Ownership concentration & firm performance: Evidence from an emerging market
Grosfeld, Irena - 2006
The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...
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