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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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Cross-Listing, Close Bank-Firm Relationships and Ownership Structure: Empirical Evidence on Corporate Governance Mechanisms

Korczak, Adriana - 2006

Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....

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Ownership, control and firm performance in Europe

Tong, Guanqun - 2010

This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...

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Corporate Governance von humankapitalintensiven Unternehmen

Weishaupt, Till - 2007

Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...

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Relationship between corporate governance and firm performance : an African perspective

Kyereboah-Coleman, Anthony - 2007

Corporate Governance has engaged the attention of academics and practitioners alike for some time now. It is sad to note, however, that most of the studies carried out in this area have been conducted in countries such as the USA and the UK. In recent times, interest in Corporate Governance on...

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EXISTE DIFERENÇA ENTRE A RENTABILIDADE DAS AÇÕES DAS EMPRESAS QUE ADOTAM GOVERNANÇA CORPORATIVA COM RELAÇÃO ÀS EMPRESAS DO MERCADO TRADICIONAL?

Bressan, Valeria Gama Fully; Bressan, Aureliano Angel - 2008

The study verifies, between march 2005 and march 2006, if there is any difference between the stock yields of a sample of companieslisted in Bovespa that adopt the principles of Corporate Governance, in different levels, in relation to the companies of the traditionalmarket. The data were...

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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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UK executive pay: the special case of executive bonuses

Fattorusso, Jay - 2006

uses two competing theories (i.e. agency and power theory) to providea fuller explanation of the subtleties of the pay … performance. As with previous studies on executive bonus pay this associationremains weak. By implication, power theory is not … compensation, as agency theory would predict; (3) cash bonuses encourageshort-term achievement, as predicted by power theory; (4 …

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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 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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