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Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies.

Smith, Kevin John - 2009

Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to...

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Corporate governance in socially responsible firms

Webb, Elizabeth - 2003

larger proportion of outsiders and women on the board, and are less likely to have a CEO who is also the chairman of the … investigating evidence of monitoring. I focus on two important and observable board monitoring roles: CEO compensation and CEO … replacement. CEO turnover tests indicate that SR firms are more likely to experience CEO turnover following poor performance than …

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Corporate board dynamics.

Schmeiser, Steven Maurice - 2009

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2009. Major: Economics. Advisors: Thomas Holmes, Erzo G.J. Luttmer, Jan Werner and Rajesh Aggarwal. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 62 pages.

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Three essays about the financial impact of top managers on firm.

Kim, Young Han - 2009

The dissertation investigates how top level managers such as CEO (Chief Executive Officer) or CFO (Chief Financial … measures in understanding forced turnover of top managers. Using hand collected data regarding CEO and CFO departures, I find … that better governed firms fire a CEO or CFO sensitively to firm performance proxied by default probability. I do not find …

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