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discretionary power of the President assured shareholders a higher return on investment by international comparison. This management …
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Firm-level fixed investment expenses are analysed using a large panel of US manufacturing firms from 1971 to 2007. Integrating the user cost of capital, q and accelerator theories of investment to one econometric specification, we estimate the impacts of sales growth, cash flow, the cost of...
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We draw on a series of in-depth interviews with senior fund managers and senior company executives to explore how …
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researchers pay a particular attention to banking governance. Specifically, shareholders-managers’ convergence of interests and … negative effect on performance. The results also reveal that managers lack control while the board of directors seems to exert … a lot of power. This state of affairs results from the fact of associating the role of the manager with that of the …
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The environmental accounting literature covers both public and private, or corporate, fields. The needs of private firms differ from public organisations in that environmental accounting systems must pay for themselves. Stakeholder analysis and the so-called triple bottom line forget that...
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This research looks at the theoretical impact of corporate governance on shareholder value maximisation in some countries of the CFA zone in Africa. Data from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Gabon covering the period 2005 to 2009 were used and theoretical analysis done. Theoretical...
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The questions about corporate governance and « affairs » such as Enron, Vivendi... are echoing a series of questions about the firm in the economic theory. Walras and general equilibrium differ from Schumpeterian views and the conflict between shareholders and management was already discussed...
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