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 is similar for C.E.O.s and other board members, and if and how the …

This study provides pioneering empirical evidence on board gender diversity and firm performance relationship for the …

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock … Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is … relationship with performance. Board turnover instead is unrelated to performance but is related to the firm?s ownership structure …

The paper analyzes the optimal structure of board of directors in a firm with ownership concentrated in the hands of a … large shareholder who sits on the board. We focus our attention on the choice between one-tier board who performs all tasks … and two-tier board where the management board is in charge of project selection and the supervisory board is in charge of …

The paper analyzes the optimal structure of the board of directors in a firm with a large shareholder sitting on the … board. In a one-tier structure the sole board performs all tasks, while in a two-tier structure the management board is in … charge of project selection and the supervisory board is in charge of monitoring. We consider the case in which the large …

This study aims to examine the impact of gender diversity in the Board of Directors (BOD) on the firm performance …

. Although we only find few differences, we observe that board composition is significantly driven by language-related factors …