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problems the more gender-diverse the board is, and women are more likely to join monitoring committees. These results suggest … that gender-diverse boards allocate more effort to monitoring. Accordingly, we find that chief executive officer turnover … is more sensitive to stock performance and directors receive more equity-based compensation in firms with more gender …
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My dissertation examines a board's decision to hire a star CEO and the implication of such decision on the new CEO compensation and firm performance. I develop a new methodology to identify a star CEO by analyzing the texts contained in 18,240 Wall Street Journal news articles. Unlike previous...
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Detailliert wird ein ganzheitliches Konzept für das Diversity Management erschlossen. Dabei wird die Relevanz des Unternehmensleitbildes, der Führung, der Kommunikation und des Organisationsklimas für eine diversity-gerechte Unternehmenskultur gezeigt und die Bedeutung für zwei...
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Purpose – To test the hypothesis of increased specialisation during the 1980s in the aggregate pattern of intercorporate ownership in the Canadian economy.Design/methodology/approach – The network of ownership between enterprises and subsidiaries is characterised for the period 1976-1995...
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gender, race and ethnicity. Such diverse people will, when placed in similar situations, perceive these situations …
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Scholars suggest that organizational diversity management (DM) programs are useful not only to satisfy legal requirements or social demands, but also to further the achievement of business objectives. However, much is still to be learned about the effects of such programs on individuals'...
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measures concerning equal opportunities, gender, work-life balance, disability and sexual orientation will be criticized …
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Abstract The examination of the behavioural responses of the reciprocal first name exchange as a policy in firms in Nigeria was the main objective of this research. It was also the intent of this empirical work to highlight the challenges and issues of the transferability and applicability of...
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This study examines the association between external audit fees, and board and audit committee characteristics of 736 Malaysian listed firms. It is hypothesised that good corporate governance practices reduce auditors' risk assessments, resulting in lower audit fees. Drawing on the existence of...
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As evident from recent changes in NYSE and Nasdaq listing requirements, boardindependence is considered an important constituent of firms?? corporate governancestructures. However, the empirical evidence regarding the impact of board structure onfirm performance is mixed. Since firms employ a...
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