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Does Board Gender Diversity Make a Difference? New Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis
Dang, Rey; Nguyen, Duc Khuong - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
become not only an ethical business case but also a public pressure to improve this gender imbalance. While there is some … practical evidence to suggest that gender-diverse corporate boards have a positive impact on performance, the results from … relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance from a dynamic perspective through using quantile regression. This …
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Corporate Governance and Ethical Behavior: A National Perspective
Ienciu, Ionel-Alin - In: Romanian Economic Journal 15 (2012) 35, pp. 49-68
Ethical behavior is an important aspect for the success of a company, as it influences its relations with various stakeholders. Our study reflects how the efficiency of the board of directors influences the ethical behavior of companies. We conclude stating that the efficiency of the board of...
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Bankers on boards as corporate governance mechanism: evidence from Poland
Slomka-Golebiowska, Agnieszka - In: Journal of Management and Governance 18 (2014) 4, pp. 1019-1040
This paper examines whether a bank exercises a monitoring role when a banker is represented on a firm’s board. Bank monitoring reduces information asymmetries, and hence lessens firm’s financial constraints—phenomenon frequently measured by investment-cash flow sensitivity in the sample of...
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Gender Diversity on European Banks’ Boards of Directors
Cabo, Ruth Mateos de; Gimeno, Ricardo; Nieto, María - In: Journal of Business Ethics 109 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162
This article investigates the gender diversity of the corporate board of European Union banks. Employing a large sample … board gender diversity. First, the proportion of women on the board is higher for lower-risk banks. We argue that there may …
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Does Corporate Governance Influence Earnings Management in Latin American Markets?
González, Jesus Sáenz; García-Meca, Emma - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 3, pp. 419-440
Although US and European research has documented improvement in earnings quality associated with corporate governance characteristics, the situation in Latin America is questionable, given the business environment in which firms operate, which is characterized by controlling family ownership and...
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Does the Rolodex Matter? Corporate Elite's Small World and the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors
Nguyen, Bang Dang - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 2, pp. 236-252
This paper investigates the impact of social ties on the effectiveness of boards of directors. When the chief executive officer (CEO) and a number of directors belong to the same social networks, the CEO is less likely to be dismissed for poor performance. The results are robust to different...
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Les déterminants de la rémunération des administrateurs externes dans les sociétés françaises du SBF 120 - Determinants of outside director compensation in the major French compani...
Broye, Géraldine; Moulin, Yves - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 15 (2012) 1, pp. 7-25
(VF)Cette étude s’intéresse aux déterminants de la rémunération des administrateurs externes des sociétés du SBF 120. Nos résultats mettent en évidence l’incidence de la structure de propriété de l’entreprise sur cette rémunération. La rémunération est en effet d’autant...
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Does Gender Diversity on board lead to Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
Loukil, Nadia; Yousfi, Ouidad - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
The current paper studies the impact of board gender-diversity on firm risk-taking in a developing market. Our study is … associated with cash ratio. Second, we showed no significant relationship between gender-diversity on board and the propensity to … invest in firms with gender-diverse boards. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860462
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Efficacité des structures de contrôle et enracinement des dirigeants
Alexandre, Hervé; Paquerot, Mathieu - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000
In the theoretical framework of corporate governance this article studies the efficiency of the control exerted by the ownership structure and the board of directors on managers. The confrontation of entrenchment theory and agency theory allows to determine the necessary conditions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861596
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Family involvement in business and financial performance: A set-theoretic cross-national inquiry
Garcia-Castro, Roberto; Aguilera, Ruth V. - In: Journal of Family Business Strategy 5 (2014) 1, pp. 85-96
Prior empirical research finds positive, negative and neutral relationships between family involvement in business and firm performance. We argue that some of the challenges that have plagued empirical research in this field are related to the measurement of family involvement in business....
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