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Preserving Director Primacy by Managing Shareholder Interventions

Bainbridge, Stephen M. - 2019

corporate efficiency and performance, especially by holding poorly performing boards of directors and top management teams to …, while encouraging shareholder efforts to hold directors and managers accountable …

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The basic governance structure of public corporations : the interests of shareholders as a class

Armour, John; Enriques, Luca; Hansmann, Henry B.; … - 2017

shareholders far removed from the firm's day-to-day operations; and delegated management, which opens up the possibility for … trade-offs resulting from the interaction of investor ownership with delegated management. It describes the use of …

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Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm : Reconstructing Corporations, Directors, Owners, and Investors

Huber, Wm. Dennis - 2020

Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property. Yet, until now, it has never been proven. These doctrines rest on unsubstantiated assumptions. In this book the...

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Family ownership and return on investments : founders, heirs and external managers

Eklund, Johan E.; Palmberg, Johanna; Wiberg, Daniel - 2010

This paper investigates how family ownership, control and management affect firm investment performance. We use the … identity of the CEO and the COB to establish under what management the firm is: founder, descendent or external management. The … analysis shows that founder management has no effect on investment performance in family firms, whereas descendant management …

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Reinvestigating the relationship between ownership structure and inventory management : a corporate governanceperspective

Elsayed, Khaled; Wahba, Hayam - In: International journal of production economics 143 (2013) 1, pp. 207-218

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Ownership concentration, board characteristics and firm performance : a contingency framework

Gaur, Sanjaya Singh; Bathula, Hanoku; Deeksha Singh - In: Management decision : MD 53 (2015) 5, pp. 911-931

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Institutions, Board Structure, and Corporate Performance : Evidence from Chinese Firms

Chen, Tao - 2014

This paper investigates how institutional environment like property rights protection influences the size and composition of corporate boards, and further, how board structure impacts firm performance in China. Using a World Bank survey of 2,400 public and private firms across 18 Chinese cities,...

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Board gender diversity in China and Eastern Europe

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Ma, Xinxin; Mizobata, Satoshi - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 4 (2024) 1, pp. 1-30

This paper reports on an empirical analysis of 42,094 public/private companies in China and 21 Eastern European countries to grasp the actual state and determinants of board gender diversity in emerging market firms. We confirmed that firms in these countries are comparable to those in advanced...

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Ownership Concentration, Board Characteristics and Performance : Evidence from Jordan

Jaafar, Aziz; El Shawa, Mahmoud - 2009

In this paper, we examine the effects of ownership concentration and board characteristics on the performance of listed firms domiciled in Jordan, one of the main emerging markets in the Middle East. Employing 2SLS regressions on a sample of 103 firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for...

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Board Independence and Firm Performance in China

Liu, Yu - 2014

We provide the first comprehensive and robust evidence on the relationship between board independence and firm performance in China. We find that independent directors have an overall positive effect on firm operating performance in China. Our findings are robust to a battery of tests, including...

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