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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governanc...

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Forschungslücke leistet die vorliegende Arbeit einen Beitrag dazu, dualistische Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland näher zu beleuchten. Nach … Aufsichtsräten Gegenstand der Untersuchung. Nach einer Aufarbeitung des institutionellen Kontexts in Deutschland zu den Aufgaben der … supervisory boards in Germany. Following the introduction, chapter 2 is devoted to the question of how German supervisory boards …

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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks

Schott, Max - 2008

The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the worlds 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...

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Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption

Taylor, Grantley J. - 2008

This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to...

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Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies.

Smith, Kevin John - 2009

Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to...

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Corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in transitional countries – evidence from Chinese listed firms

Lin, Teng - 2011

The objective of this thesis is to investigate whether the corporate governance practices adopted by Chinese listed firms are associated with the quality of earnings information. Based on a review of agency and institutional theory, this study develops hypotheses that predict the monitoring...

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The role of the audit committee and institutional investors in constraining earnings management : evidence from Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong

Lin, Philip Teng; Hutchinson, Marion R.; Percy, Majella - 2009

Using data from 2004 to 2008, we find that an audit committee is an important monitoring mechanism as audit committee independence, expertise and size are associated with reduced levels of abnormal accruals, our measure of earnings management. This study also attempts to discern when the...

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An analysis of the nature and effectiveness of corporate governance in smaller listed Australian companies

Plastow, Kevin Patrick - 2011

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the corporate governance attributes of smaller listed Australian firms. This study is motivated by evidence that these firms are associated with more regulatory concerns, the introduction of ASX Corporate Governance Recommendations in 2004, and a...

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In High Gear: A Case Study of the Hees-Edper Corporate Group

Strangeland, David; Daniels, Ronald J.; Morck, Randall - 1995

This study compares firms in the Hees-Edper Group with a number of other independent firms of similar size and in the same industries over a four-year period from 1988 to 1992, just prior to the first release of news that the Hees-Edper group was in financial trouble. During that period,...

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Corporate Governance Ratings in Emerging Markets: Implications for Market Valuation, Internal Firm-Performance, Dividend Payouts and Policy

Baker, Edward; Godridge, Ben; Gottesman, Aron; Morey, … - 2007

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has country-level and monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 22 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these data we examine the relationship of firm-level...

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