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Social capital and diversification of cooperatives
Deng, Wendong - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341744
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Playing Favorites? Industry Expert Directors in Diversified Firms
Ellis, Jesse A. - 2017
We examine the influence of outside directors' industry experience on segment investment, segment operating performance, and firm valuation for conglomerates. Given board composition is endogenous, we instrument for the presence of industry expert directors using the supply of experienced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972204
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Does Diversity in Executive Boards Make a Difference? Nationality Diversity and Firm Performance in German, Dutch and British Multinational Enterprises
Honing, Sirik - 2012
UK and the Netherlands has been used. Research findings did not show convincing support for the main research question … nationality diversity within the executive boards between Germany, UK and the Netherlands are discussed and tested. Lastly, this … UK and the Netherlands. First, the findings show that more foreigners within the executive board would lead to higher …
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Strategic board leadership in the multinational firm
Guttmann, Georg - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405760
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Accommodating two worlds in one organization : changing board models in agricultural cooperations
Bijman, Jos; Hendrikse, George W. J.; Oijen, Aswin van - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634218
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Accommodating Two Worlds in One Organization : Changing Board Models in Agricultural Cooperatives
Bijman, W.J. Jos; Hendrikse, George W.J; van Oijen, … - 2015
While most economic organisation literature on cooperatives has focused on changes in income rights, we study changes in the allocation of decision rights between board of directors (representing members) and managers. The traditional role of the board is to direct the activities of the...
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Board dynamics over the startup lifecycle
Ewens, Michael; Malenko, Nadya - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249143
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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019226
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Female board representation and corporate performance : a review and new estimates for Australia
Bayly, Nicholas; Breunig, Robert; Wokker, Chris - 2023
Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...
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From boardroom to C-suite : why would a company pick a current director as CEO?
Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2017
Many observers consider the most important responsibility of the board of directors its responsibility to hire and fire the CEO. To this end, an interesting situation arises when a CEO resigns and the board chooses neither an internal nor external candidate, but a current board member as...
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