results suggest that "old boys' club" ownership structures are a major impediment to the empowerment of female talent in …

. This work presents the relationship between CEO personality traits and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and shows … has been shown that effective corporate governance practices lead significantly to moderate CEO behavior with regard to …

necessarily bearing the costs of their decisions. Second, such CEO-induced CSR enhancements turn out to be defective CSR … characteristics, we refute previous contradicting empirical evidence regarding a significant CEO effect and show a conditional … relation between CEO power and CSR choice. Our results are robust to alternative sample compositions, different variable …

This study investigates the relationship between the Chairman's characteristics (age, title, tenure, and ownership) and … the firm's operating performance (measured by profitability and liquidity), and whether the Chief Executive Officer's (CEO … positively and significantly associated with the firm's profitability but not with liquidity. Conversely, Chairman ownership is …

for a set of firm characteristics and CEO traits. We document that CEO marriage reduces crash risk by curbing bad news … hoarding and formation activities. Moreover, the attenuating impact of CEO marriage on crash risk is more pronounced among …

relationship between private benefits of control and CEO ownership with a minimum at about 4% CEO ownership, a positive association … between CEO tenure and private benefits, and a quadratic in CEO age with a dip in private benefits at about 52 years of age …

This paper analyses ownership and control structures of Dutch listed companies. Legislation effective since 1992 … that the average ownership stakes of the largest and the three largest shareholders are 27% and 41%, respectively. The … average ownership stakes of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are relatively low. We observe that …

The current literature on firm ownership around the world shows that concentrated ownership with only one or a few … controlling owners is common, especially in many European and Asian countries. The dispersed ownership has proven to be uncommon … and even countries with supposed dispersed ownership has also shown signs of ownership concentration. Commonly, the …