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This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...
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This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...
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outside mandates enhance managerial power at the expense of the home firm's shareholders. …
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) directors. In contrast, this paper shows that some lack of board independence can be in the interest of shareholders. This … shareholders if the problem of providing appropriate incentives to the CEO is weak (severe). …
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management. It should be noted that share prices trigger increases in CEO remuneration only if the share price returns are higher …, the lack of blockholders gives management more …
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The most important responsibility of cooperative directors is to judiciously ask the right questions of management. It … has been suggested that some directors do not know all of the correct questions to ask of management, or how. The purpose … of this paper is fourfold: 1) To briefly describe how directors should pose questions to management, 2) To provide an …
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This study examines managerial disciplining in poorly performing firms using large panels for Belgian, French, German and UK firms. We consider the monitoring role of large blockholders, the market for share blocks, creditors, and non-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to...
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shareholders is required to reach an absolute majority of voting rights. Even though the average firm has a dispersed ownership … example, has an important impact on the ownership structure. In about 4% of sample companies, corporate shareholders hold just … under 30 per cent of the shares. Second, institutional investors are the most important category of shareholders. However …
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This paper analyses the turnover of board of directors members on a sample of companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the period 1988-1996. Our aim is to investigate if board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, if this relationship...
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This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
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