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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control: Evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinets, Irina; Ilina, Yulia; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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Verringern Management-Entlohnungskosten die Agency-Kosten? Empirische Evidenz von netzwerkorientierten und marktorientierten Unternehmenskontrollsystemen
Crespi-Cladera, Rafel; Gispert, Carles; Renneboog, Luc - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 2, pp. 234-246
In the UK, the top executive remuneration policy is not geared towards the creation of value but compensation revisions are rather driven by changes in corporate size, measured by sales growth. This suggests that managing larger firms requires special managerial skills. Even in UK companies with...
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Corporate governance in the UK : contrasted with the US system
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 13-22
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Does Dividend Policy Have a Political Dimension? The British Case
Bank, Steven; Cheffins, Brian; Goergen, Marc - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 1, pp. 33-37
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Auswirkungen der internen Revision auf die Qualität der Rechnungslegung – Eine kritische Analyse
Fabian, Jette - In: Junior Management Science (JUMS) 7 (2022) 5, pp. 1242-1269
Grundpfeilern der Corporate Governance, einen wesentlichen Erfolgsfaktor zur Reduktion von Bilanzpolitik, zur Aufdeckung von …
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Mueller, Elisabeth; Spitz, Alexandra - 2001
which managers could become entrenched, they already bear a large proportion of the costs and have therefore an incentive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297809
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Loss of control vs. risk reduction: decision factors for hiring non-family CFOs in family firms
Lutz, Eva; Schraml, Stephanie; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2010
explore the perceptions of family firm owners towards external managers by analyzing how their family-specific and company … providers. Prior work: Prior research has acknowledged that the attitude to external managers is a major concern for family … independence and control is high. Furthermore, they do not seem to trust external managers to act in accordance to their goal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305711
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Are Forced Turnovers Good or Bad News?
Kind, Axel; Schläpfer, Yves - 2011
To gain insights about the quality of board's firing decisions, we investigate abnormal stock returns and operating performance around CEO-turnover announcements in a new hand- collected sample of 208 “clean” turnover events between January 1998 and June 2009. Unlike the majority of previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390666
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Learning from the past: trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola - 2008
with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264485