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This paper studies corporate governance when a firm operates in imperfect markets. We derive firms' decisions from utility maximization by individuals. If those involved in decisions are also consumers, the usual monopoly distortion is reduced. Corporate governance can effect the equilibrium in...
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regarded as the standard example of an insider-controlled and stakeholder-oriented system. Moreover, only a few years ago it …
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This paper examines the composition of supervisory boards of German banks for a sample of 41 large banks in the period 1999-2006. We find that the supervisory board structure reflects both outside control by shareholders and inside control by stakeholders. Most of the non-employee board members...
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Although pension funds have gained importance in the last two decades, their role has not been described in detail by economic models. This paper focusses on the scope of these institutional investors when they are not satisfied with a management team of a company in which the pension fund holds...
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We consider the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and … suppliers as well as shareholders compared to shareholderoriented firms. Societies with stakeholder-oriented firms have higher … voluntarily choose to be stakeholder-oriented because this increases their value. Consumers that prefer to buy from stakeholder …
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govern TNCs. RCG is suggested as a stakeholder based policyinstrument, which aims at allocating responsibilities to societal … actionare brought forward. Here, the paper also lists down corporate elements (stakeholder empowered corporate governance …
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A governance indicator for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is presented. The indicator adopts stakeholder …
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Moral hazard in an organization occurs when people make decisions and take a high risk for their own benefit, given that they would not have to bear all the negative ensuing consequences should they occur. This risk transferred to third parties is generally due to the catalysts that foster this...
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Stakeholder berücksichtigt, auf der anderen Seite - werden geschildert und mit den Mitteln der ökonomischen Theorie bewertet …. Spezifische Investitionen möglicher Stakeholder und die Institutionen und Mechanismen, die eine Absicherung der daraus … entstehenden ökonomischen Renten für die jeweiligen Stakeholder erlauben, sind damit wichtige Bestimmungsparameter für die …
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The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of the most hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoretic arguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empirical evidence focusing on U.S....
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