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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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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695703
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Managerial hedging and portfolio monitoring
Bisin, Alberto; Gottardi, Piero; Rampini, Adriano A. - 2004
Incentive compensation induces correlation between the portfolio of managers and the cash flow of the firms they manage …. This correlation exposes managers to risk and hence gives them an incentive to hedge against the poor performance of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261074
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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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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
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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea: evidence from new panel data
Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - 2005
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267324
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Social networks in the boardroom
Kramarz, Francis; Thesmar, David - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267612
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Firm performance and managerial turnover: the case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271280
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The value relevance of top executive departures: evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
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