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Group Polarization on Corporate Boards: Theory and Evidence on Board Decisions about Acquisition Premiums, Executive Compensation, and Diversification.
Zhu, Hongquan - 2009
This dissertation examines how a fundamental group decision-making bias referred to as group polarization may influence boards’ major strategic decisions (i.e. acquisition premiums, executive compensation, and diversification) and the diffusion of practices through interlock networks. I begin...
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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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Innovation via Global Route: Proposing a Reference Model for Chances and Challenges of Global Innovation Processes
Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2007
essential tool to stimulate growth and enable firms to master the competition brought about by the forces of globalization. In … reforms and far-reaching technological advancements have brought to fore new economic powerhouses, such as China and India … specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the “globalization of innovation”. Based on recent …
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Human Resource Management Strategies in the Chinese Multinational Corporations: Ideology, Institutions, and Culture
George, Babu; Li, Caifeng; Hou, Yuting - 2020
With the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) having inextricably been interconnected with the international economy and … generic literature on internationalization of firms does not account for the ideological and institutional aspects specific to … China and thus does not do justice to the way the Chinese Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have evolved. Unlike most …
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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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