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We study 288 family firms included in the NSE CNX 500 index of the National Stock Exchange of India. We find an … entrenchment-alignment-entrenchment relationship between family ownership and firm value. We show that family CEO has a negative … moderating effect on the relationship between family ownership and firm value. When the interaction effect of Family CEO on …
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family and managerial ownership on real earnings management of selected non-financial listed companies at the Colombo Stock … rules and regulation. The study found that family and managerial ownership play a prominent role and negatively related to …
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We study the managers' compensation schemes adopted by publicly listed family firms by means of a theoretical model and … an empirical analysis. Existing empirical literature finds puzzling evidence about the structure of family CEOs' pay …, which apparently contradicts the fundamental tenets of principal-agent theory under moral hazard. In particular, family CEOs …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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shareholders is smaller or when savings banks are family firms. Practical implications: Outside directors can not only play the … customers. Contribution: Finally, this study contributes to the family business literature by providing insight into how the … unique characteristics of family firms in strategic choices make outside directors contribute as assistants than supervisors. …
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Based on behavioral finance theory, we discuss the influence of managers' herd behavior on corporate financialization … from the perspective of managers' behavioral preferences. Empirical testing was conducted using data from nonfinancial …
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This paper studies the relationship between ownership concentration, family ownership, management, and market and …-shaped relationship between ownership concentration and market performance, present in family and non-family firms, pointing out an … entrenchment effect or excessive risk aversion of the controlling group. The effect is worsened for family firms. The presence of …
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Building on the theory of Burkart et al. (2003) that family ownership and control of firms mitigate the twin conflicts … between owners and managers and between majority and minority owners, we suggest that the allocation of firm ownership rights … and informal governance within controlling families helps mitigate conflicts among family members, a third type of agency …
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. This paper develop a model suggesting that employee ownership policy reveals management quality. Good managers would use … employee ownership as a reward management tool whereas bad managers would implement it for entrenchment motives. We bring about … three main conclusions: (i) Bad managers use employee ownership as an entrenchment mechanism. (ii) This latter phenomenon …
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We find a significant hump-shaped relation between firm valuation and CEO ownership when external governance (EG) is weak, but the relation is insignificant when EG is strong. These interactive effects are identified while controlling for firm-fixed effects. The results imply that CEO ownership...
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