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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608494
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Shareholders Should Welcome Knowledge Workers as Directors
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006
The most influential approach of corporate governance, the view of shareholders supremacy does not take into consideration that the key task of modern corporations is to generate and transfer firm-specific knowledge. It proposes that, in order to overcome the widespread corporate scandals, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168242
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Globalization of Corporate Covernance: The American Influence on Dismissal Performance Sensitivity of European CEOs
Jungeilges, Jochen A.; Oxelheim, Lars; Randoy, Trond - 2010
This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being … as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct and indirect American influence on the dismissal performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320346
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Persistence of a network core in the time evolution of interlocking directorates
Milaković, Mishael; Raddant, Matthias; Birg, Laura - 2009
We examine the bipartite graphs of German corporate boards in 1993, 1999 and 2005, and identify cores of directors who are highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. Germany's corporate governance has experienced significant changes during this time, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299742
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How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2002
, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323056
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Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg - Eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Führungs-, Kontroll- und Anreizstrukturen und der Geschäftsentwicklung deutsche...
Steinbrecher, Johannes - 2016
Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698354
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282468
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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284
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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. … als sein Ruf im Ausland, muss es sich wohl an die Globalisierung und die Verfügbarkeit alternativer Unternehmensformen in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299746
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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267302