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-diverse boards. However, the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative. This negative effect is driven by … 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 …
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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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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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influence over management and the diversity of directors’ pre-meeting positions increase the polarization effect. The relative …
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We study the role of corporate governance in abnormal returns around announcements of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) by publicly traded U. S. firms from 2001 - 2004. We find that investors react more positively for firms in which different people hold the CEO and board chairman positions. We...
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Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a new paradigm for managing the portfolio of risks that face organizations, and policy makers continue to focus on mechanisms to improve corporate governance and risk management. Despite these developments, there is little research on factors...
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the research questions: Do executive and non-executivedirectors face similar labor market penalties upon revelation of accounting fraud? Are all executivedirectors treated by markets as a homogenous group? Or, do executive directors who are top managersface...
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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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Scholars suggest that organizational diversity management (DM) programs are useful not only to satisfy legal … proposed relationships between organizational diversity perspectives and applicants' perceptions of organizations. The first …
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