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Explaining Top Management Turnover in Private Corporations : The Role of Cross-Country Legal Institutions and Capital Market Forces
Lel, Ugur - 2018
terminate poorly performing managers. This finding is consistent with our hypothesis that governance problems in private firms … performing managers. Comparing private firms to their public counterparts, we find that private firms have a lower propensity to … replace poorly performing managers than public firms do and that public firms' exposure to capital market forces (the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938429
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CEO turnover : cross-country effects
Burns, Natasha; Minnick, Kristina; Starks, Laura T. - In: Corporate governance : an international review 31 (2023) 6, pp. 820-844
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441169
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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World
Iliev, Peter - 2015
Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011773
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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World
Iliev, Peter - 2015
Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038476
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Is Corporate Governance Relevant During the Financial Crisis? Cross-Country Evidence
Gupta, Kartick - 2011
We study the impact of internal corporate governance on performance during the current financial crisis using a comprehensive cross-country sample of 4046 publicly traded non-financial firms from 23 countries. Using a broad-based index of corporate governance quality, we find that well-governed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128096
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Good and Bad Banks? Governance, Human Capital of Top Managers and Performance
García-Cestona, Miguel - 2014
managers. Some authors have pointed out that neither the formal governance institutions (i.e. the composition of the different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046348
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Are religion and culture relevant for corporate risk-taking? : international evidence
Díez-Esteban, José María; Farinha, Jorge Bento; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 22 (2019) 1, pp. 36-55
Using a large sample of firms from 37 countries over the period of 2007-2015, we empirically analyse the impact of religion and national culture characteristics on the level of corporate risk-taking around the world and the channels through which this can take place. First, we initially observe...
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The link between performance and changes in the size and stability of a firm's officers and directors
Heaney, Richard A.; Naughton, Tony; Truong, Thanh; … - In: Journal of multinational financial management 17 (2007) 1, pp. 16-29
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Boards of a Feather : Homophily in Foreign Director Appointments Around the World
Barrios, John Manuel - 2020
We examine whether similarities in legal, sociological, and cultural characteristics between countries (country-pair homophily) affect foreign director appointments. Our results from estimating a gravity model, which includes economic and geographic country characteristics, indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855937
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Say on Pay Laws, Executive Compensation, Pay Slice, and Firm Valuation around the World
Correa, Ricardo - 2016
Using a large sample of firms from 38 countries over the 2001-2012 period, we find evidence that following say on pay (SoP) laws, CEO pay growth rates decline and the sensitivity of CEO pay to firm performance improves. These changes are mostly concentrated on firms with high excess pay and...
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