such as Jack Welch’s “Winning” to analysis of the widely criticized executives, such as Home Depot’s former CEO Bob … Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …

Principal Topic: This paper is part of a broader study of CEO performance and turnover in China. CEO turnover is … industry and CEO specific factors. Secondary data is extracted from the National Bureau of Statistics, China, and industry … that CEO?s are recruited to bring a specific skill set to a business, but as the industry context changes, the relevance …

organizational performance for new ventures following an initial publicoffering (IPO). Building from resource-based theory and … resources and performance for a sample of entrepreneurial firmsundertaking an IPO. New theory is offered to explain the … valuable in some contexts and not in others.I find that resource endowments at IPO affect the formation and use …

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how Chinese managers perceive and respond to … been collected from experience of a management development programme for Chinese managers in 20 state-owned enterprises …, and from interviews with 45 senior Chinese managers and officials who had been involved in a United Nations Development …

a further mechanism at work due to retailers' delisting decisions. Giventhat retailers have to make room for their store … brands at the point of sale, they have to readjust their assortments delisting some manufacturer brands. Retailers would like … delisting strong brands given that the retailer's margin on these brands is lower. The problem is that strong brands can …

This paper examines the trends and endogenous formation of bank board structure (size, independence, CEO duality and … regulatory nature and comparatively intensive scrutiny of bank directors, I argue that bank managers may have less control over …

determinants of CEO compensation. Examining 975 CEO’s over the period 1992-2002, the present study finds that experience had a … positive effect on CEO pay, while industry specific dummy variables had little, if any, effect on compensation. Performance … measures, such as net income per sales and return on equity, had very little effect on CEO pay. The results of the present …

Corporate ethics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation will be forever linked together. The dramatic increase … affect executives’ decision making. In this paper I try to determine which financial factors are the best indicators of a CEO …’s compensation. I also examine how profitable a company is with an ethical CEO compared to a company with an unethical CEO. The …

The dissertation investigates how top level managers such as CEO (Chief Executive Officer) or CFO (Chief Financial … measures in understanding forced turnover of top managers. Using hand collected data regarding CEO and CFO departures, I find … that better governed firms fire a CEO or CFO sensitively to firm performance proxied by default probability. I do not find …