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Dynamic capabilities : the role of board monitoring and managerial incentives
Asija, Aman; Ringov, Dimo - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 4, pp. 268-280
Research on the nature and value of firms’ dynamic capabilities has produced contradictory propositions and findings. Scholars have argued that contingency theorizing has the potential to improve our understanding, as the context in which dynamic capabilities are deployed may affect their...
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Directors’ Human Capital, Firm Strategy, and Firm Performance
Gantenbein, Pascal A. - 2014
Ideally, corporations are directed by boards whose directors provide valuable human capital that match the firms' strategy. We investigate how directors' human capital (international experience, industrial know-how, CEO experience, and financial know-how) affects firm performance including the...
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Do Strategic Corporate M&A Create Value? Evidence from 5th and 6th Merger Waves
Vinogradova, Veronika - 2016
Corporate strategic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) mean focus on growth (e.g. revenue growth) and aim to enhance the firm's competitive position. The academic literature reports however, an extremely high failure rate of strategic M&A – their outcomes are very difficult to forecast and they...
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Value Creation Through External Growth Strategy - the Architecture of Successful Performance
Vinogradova, Veronika - 2017
This paper is concerned with the profitable external growth and proposes an empirical model outlining the major determinants of its success. The results of analysis of the unique sample of strategic growth acquisitions completed from 2000 to 2010 suggest that the success of transaction is...
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Lobby or Contribute? - The Impact of Corporate Governance on Firms' Political Strategies
Guo, Bing - 2009
political strategies: lobbying and making political contributions. The theoretical model implies that managers, who care more …
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Relationship between family ownership, agency costs towards financial performance and business strategy as mediation
Savitri, Enni - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 19 (2018), pp. 49-58
This study investigates the relationship between family ownership, agency costs, financial performance, and companies' business strategies. The targeted population of this study were all 143 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during 2007-2014. About 31% (45) of...
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Corporate Governance, Managers' Independence, Exporting and Performance of Firms in Transition Economies
Filatotchev, Igor; Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers' independence from owners in terms of strategic decision …-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers' independence is positively associated with firms' financial performance … and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers' independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …
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Strategic Informed Trading by Corporate Executives and Firm Value
Gunny, Katherine - 2013
Proponents of insider trading argue that informed trading benefits shareholders and could have a positive effect on firm value, however opponents counter that insider trading could be detrimental to firm value. We measure the extent of strategic informed trading by the fraction of insider trades...
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Strategic Director Appointments and Board Voting Patterns
Drymiotes, George - 2018
rubberstamping managers' actions and deferring to other directors on the board without the benefit of information -- can in fact be ….e., from fewer directors) some of the time. We show that opportunistic (principled) managers may not always appoint the least …
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Are Corporate Governance Mechanisms, Corporate Strategy and Corporate Financial Characteristics Related to Earnings Management?
Submitter, GATR Journals; Tonay, Clarissa; Sutrisno, Paulina - 2021
Objective - This study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance and several factors of corporate financial characteristics on earnings management. Corporate governance mechanisms such as an independent board, board size, and audit committee size are expected to be able to limit the...
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