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Former Politicians as Corporate Directors : Good for Business?
Gray, Stephen - 2013
the prevalence of former politicians as non-executive directors in ASX-listed companies and the market reaction to their … appointment. In our sample of 1,561 companies in 2007, we find that former federal, state, local and foreign politicians hold … former politicians is significantly lower than non-politicians. This indicates that shareholders do not value the expertise …
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Politicians on the boards of firm directors in the MENA countries : do connections affect confidence in business sales?
Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
This study examines the relationship between firms' political connections and their confidence in achieving enhanced future sales. Using firm-level survey data from selected Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, we apply ordered probit regressions to demonstrate that businesses with...
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Can high quality independent directors reduce CEO overconfidence?
Schwizer, Paola; Carretta, Alessandro; Soana, Maria-Gaia - In: European banking 3.0 : bank industry and supervision in …, (pp. 139-155). 2015
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Corporate Governance Reforms, Interlocking Directorship and Company Performance in Italy
Drago, Carlo - 2015
We analyze the effects of corporate governance reforms on interlocking directorship (ID), and we assess the relationship between interlocking directorships and company performance for the main Italian firms listed on the Italian stock exchange over 1998-2007. We use a unique dataset that...
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Does director capital influence board turnover after an incident of fraud? : evidence from Italian listed companies
D'Onza, Giuseppe; Rigolini, Alessandra - In: Journal of management & governance 21 (2017) 4, pp. 993-1022
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Capital structure and firm performance : the role of corporate governance
Muhammad, Hussain; Migliori, Stefania; Mohsni, Sana - In: International journal of business governance and ethics … 15 (2021) 4, pp. 436-458
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The board's strategic and control tasks : family firms and their search for outside directors to support growth : empirical evidence from Italian publicly listed companies
Napoli, Francesco - In: Journal of general management 37 (2011/12) 4, pp. 1-27
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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship and company performance in Italy
Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - In: International review of law and economics 41 (2015), pp. 38-49
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Ties that bind and grind? : investor reactions to politician appointments to corporate boards
El Nayal, Omar; Oosterhout, Hans van; Essen, Marc van - In: Journal of management 47 (2021) 2, pp. 456-487
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The effect of regulating political connections : evidence from China's board of directors ban
Fan, Jijian - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 2, pp. 553-578
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