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Shareholders and stakeholders around the world: the role of values, culture, and law in directors' decisions
Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renée - 2020 - This version: 5 November 2020
We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in … decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating … from over fifty countries and serving in firms from twenty three countries, we confirm that directors around the world hold …
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Corporate governance in financial institutions
Stavrinakis, Spyros G.; Harm, Christian; Llewellyn, David T. - Seminar: Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions …; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704988
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Mandating gender diversity in the corporate boardroom : the inevitable failure of California's SB 826.
Grundfest, Joseph A. - 2018
-identified women directors. While well intentioned, this legislation will not achieve its intended effect because it is …
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When the music stops - holding bank executives accountable for misconduct
Oliveira, Rita; Walters, Ruth; Zamil, Raihan - 2023
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Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies : the insignificance of Leidos before the United States Supreme Court
Grundfest, Joseph A. - 2017
What if the Supreme Court issued an opinion and no one cared? No one cared who won or lost. No one cared how the question presented was resolved. The prevailing party wouldn't gain a cent from its victory and the losing party wouldn't suffer one whit from its loss. Leidos, Inc. v. Indiana Public...
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Business networks and crisis performance : professional, political, and family ties
Carney, Richard W.; Child, Travers Barclay - 2015
Previous research on firm performance does not adequately account for the interrelatedness of a firm's professional connections, political ties, and family business-group affiliation. Many widely-cited findings may therefore be subject to confounding bias. To address this problem, we adopt a...
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What is the value of the court system for firms
Colonnello, Stefano; Herpfer, Christoph - 2016
We exploit a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on diversity of citizenship in legal disputes to estimate the contribution of the court system to firm value. In an event study, we find that an increase in state court quality from bottom to top tercile is associated with an average increase in equity...
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Does say on pay matter? : evidence from the German natural experiment
Troeger, Tobias H.; Walz, Uwe - 2016
This paper investigates the potential implications of say on pay on management remuneration in Germany. We try to shed light on some key aspects by presenting quantitative data that allows us to gauge the pertinent effects of the German natural experiment that originates with the 2009 amendments...
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Corporate governance and shareholder litigation
Kalchev, Georgi - 2009
The probability for shareholder litigation is studied and how corporate governance characteristics and other factors explain it. Shareholder litigation results from failure of corporate governance. Thus a better quality of corporate governance is hypothesized to decrease the litigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540783
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Agency conflicts around the world
Morellec, Erwan; Nikolov, Boris; Schürhoff, Norman - 2015
We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency conflicts are largely due to differences in...
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