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markets and contracts, adverse selection and moral hazard problems occur, where delegated (selected) managers could act in … aspect is about identifying the (most) relevant stakeholder(s), separating theory and practice into two different and … conflicting streams: the stakeholder value approach and the shareholder value approach. The second aspect of the concept is about …
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The recent seminal work of Gabaix (2011) raises a puzzling question: If centralization-putting different projects under the same roof-reduces diversification for investors, how does this situation reconcile with the seemingly contradictory fact that it also boosts a firm's borrowing capacity? To...
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pronounced when firms have poorly incentivized managers. We find that firms with a larger number of banking relationships are …
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number of citations to patents. Thus managers who are protected from takeover market perform worse on innovation. However …
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Institutional investors pay considerable attention to the quality of a company's governance. Unfortunately, it is difficult for outside observers to reliably gauge governance quality. Oftentimes, poor governance manifests itself only after decisions have been made and their outcomes known. We...
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In the last three decades, corporate governance and reporting have been confronted to a drift toward shareholders' primacy and value, and the revival of old-fashioned proprietary views against entity views on the business firm. This paper develops an accounting perspective of the relationship...
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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...
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