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The gender composition of boards after an IPO
Dimovski, William; Brooks, Robert - 2006
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of … large Australian companies, after listing. Design/methodology/approach - This study investigates the gender composition of … market is generally satisfied by the gender composition of boards from the time of the IPO. Originality/value - This paper …
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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance
Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003
In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...
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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - 2008
performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other hand, it may lead to entrenchment of upper management which may be...
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UK executive pay: the special case of executive bonuses
Fattorusso, Jay - 2006
Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...
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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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The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK
Guest, Paul M. - 2009
We examine the impact of board size on firm performance for a large sample of 2746 UK listed firms over 1981-2002. The UK provides an interesting institutional setting, because UK boards play a weak monitoring role and therefore any negative effect of large board size is likely to reflect the...
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Essays on institutional trader monitoring and its impact on firm value, CEO compensation, and board composition
Chen, Chi-Wei Brandon, Banking & Finance, Australian … - 2011
The ?Wall Street Rule? (WSR), a form of institutional investor monitoring, has long been viewed as a ?cut-and-run? strategy adopted by disillusioned institutional investors to express their dissatisfaction with the management of a company. This dissertation shows that WSR, far from being a...
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An Empirical Survey of Individual Consumer, Business Firm and Financial Institution Attitudes towards Islamic Methods of Finance
Gait, A.; Worthington, A. C. - 2007
Islamic finance – financial institutions, products and services designed to comply with the central tenets of Sharia (Islamic law) – is one of the most rapidly growing segments in global financial services. However, despite its growing importance, it is only relatively recently that attempts...
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An analysis of risk sharing in Islamic finance with reference to Pakistan
Khan, Tariqullah - 1996
The Islamic law prohibits charging and paying of interest but allowsearning profits on the basis of participation in the market. This legal injunctionhas motivated the establishment and successful operation of a number ofIslamic financial institutions. The emergence and rise of these...
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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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