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Corporate Governance Provisions and Risk-Adjusted Performance in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
Madanoglu, Melih; Karadag, Ersem; Upneja, Arun - 2009
There is a growing awareness that corporate governance variables play an important role in firm performance. While the majority of researchers argue that firm performance is positively associated with corporate governance structure, some other scholars suggest that there is no link between...
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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance
Vetter, Karin - 2011
Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...
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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 world … than with market size effects.The second part addresses the question whether better disclosure of executive remuneration … strategy that buys the stocks of the half of the banks with above-average disclosure of executive remuneration and sells short …
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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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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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