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Examining gender on corporate boards: a regional study

McCormick Hyland, MaryAnne; Marcellino, Patricia Ann - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 2 (2002) 4, pp. 24-31

government filings were collected for the top 100 public companies in a suburban region of the USA. Results indicated a positive …

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Corporate regulation: dead hand or safeguard in the year 2004

Davis, Roger - In: Balance Sheet 12 (2004) 2, pp. 16-18

approach to regulation between the USA and Europe and suggests that the issues of risk management needs to better take this …

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Current status of accountant liability: audit practice impact

Colley, Ron; Mulekar, Madhuri S.; Segal, Mark A.; … - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 12 (1997) 7, pp. 343-353

Examines the impact of developments in accountant liability on audit practice. Focuses on analysis of the impact of legal liability on different size accounting firms (classified by revenue generated) with respect to number and professional characteristics of audit personnel, form of practice,...

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Board structure: an empirical study of firms in Anglo-American governance environments

Muller-Kahle, M.I.; Wang, Liu; Wu, Jun - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014) 7, pp. 681-699

theories. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of firms in the USA and the UK from 2000 to 2007, the paper conducts a … associated with firm value in the USA. Social implications – The paper finds strong support for resource dependence theory in the … UK but limited support for agency theory in the USA. Originality/value – This paper takes a multi-country approach to …

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Science vs. Ideology: A Comment on Lynn Stout's New Thinking on "Shareholder Primacy"

Robé, Jean-Philippe - In: Accounting, Economics, and Law 2 (2012) 2

takeover of an old science by a new one explaining facts better than the old stuff. We are witnessing the surge of a scientific …

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D&O Insurance, Corporate Governance and Mandatory Disclosure: An Empirical Legal Study of Taiwan

Chen, Chun-Yuan - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 7 (2016) 1, pp. 19-62

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to test the signal effect of Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance and to analyze the necessity of mandatory disclosure of D&O insurance in Taiwan. D&O insurance is usually viewed as a signal mechanism of insured firms’ corporate governance and thus its...

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R&D, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Governance / Investitionen in FuE, Finanzierungsrestriktionen und Unternehmenssteuerung

Haid, Alfred; Weigand, Jürgen - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 2, pp. 145-167

Summary The paper discusses the link between financing R&D and tangible investment, firm size, and corporate governance. Mechanisms of corporate governance, such as the presence of large shareholders or stakeholders, may reduce agency and specificity problems and improve access to external...

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Auswirkungen von Mehrfachmandaten deutscher Vorstands- und Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender auf den Unternehmenserfolg / The Impact of Multiple Board Memberships of CEOs and Chairmen of S...

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim; Peters, Heiko - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 5, pp. 547-570

Summary Members of management boards as well as supervisory boards often attract public criticism when they are simultaneously active in several other boards. We use a panel data set of the biggest German corporations for the period from 1996-2006 to estimate the impact of multiple board...

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Owners, Managers, and Entrepreneurship in The Corporate Firm

Ioannides, Stavros - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 12 (2002) 1

The atemporal character of Kirzners notion of alertness and discovery, and his insistence that entrepreneurship is independent of factor ownership have attracted many criticisms from within the Austrian camp. However, it is precisely these elements of his theory of entrepreneurship that...

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Herbert Spencer on Corporate Governance

Mingardi, Alberto - In: Man and the Economy 2 (2015) 2, pp. 195-214

Abstract Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) wrote on the emergence of railroad corporations and corporate governance matters. Since Spencer is typically considered a staunch libertarian, the fact that he expressed some criticisms over the emergent corporate capitalism might surprise many. But what...

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