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Business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance: a review and summary critique

Donaldson, John; Fafaliou, Irene - In: European Research Studies Journal VI (2003) 1-2, pp. 97-118

In the business-and-society literature and in the general press on whether business fulfils its social role responsibly. Business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance movements have been developed in recent decades as responses to a growing sense of corporate...

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Corporate Governance and Merger and Acquisition Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-level Evidence from Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into the US

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2009

Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a mechanism for promoting corporate governance suggesting that an improvement in overall corporate governance may have a negative effect on M&A activity. Since M&A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a cross-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may...

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The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Technical Efficiency of the IC Industry in Taiwan

Lin, Jwu-Rong; Lee, Hsiu-Ying; Hsiao, Li-Peng - In: Journal of Economics and Management 5 (2009) 1, pp. 29-54

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance on technical efficiency. We use the Translog stochastic production function to derive technical efficiency. Four empirical results are observed: (1) Technical efficiency has a negative relationship with the following two...

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Personal Relations and their Effect on Behavior in an Organizational Setting: An Experimental Study

Brandts, Jordi; Solà, Carles - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2006

We study how personal relations affect performance in organizations. In the experimental game we use a manager has to assign different degrees of decision power to two employees. These two employees then have to make distributive decisions which affect themselves and the manager. Our focus is on...

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Stakeholder activism, managerial entrenchment and the congruence of interests between shareholders and stakeholders

Cespa, Giovanni; Cestone, Giacinta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

shareholders thus benefit from corporate governance rules putting managers under a tough replacement threat. We show that a minimal … shareholders like CalPERS are showing a growing support for each other’s agendas. …

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The Internal Control System of Russian Corporations

Abe, Naohito; Dolgopyatova, Tatiana G.; Iwasaki, Ichiro - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2007

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Corporate Distress Prediction Models Using Governance and Financial Variables: Evidence from Thai Listed Firms during the East Asian Economic Crisis

Polsiri, Piruna; Sookhanaphibarn, Kingkarn - In: Journal of Economics and Management 5 (2009) 2, pp. 273-304

. We also find that the presence of controlling shareholders and the board involvement by controlling shareholders reduce …

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THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE ORGANISATIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CONVERGENCE AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

Cristina, Ph.D Student Bosoteanu Maria - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2009) 13S, pp. 31-39

The request for appropriate financial and accounting information in terms of quality is marked by the agency and governance problems which were delineated and commented while trying to find feasible solutions. The paper analyze not only the convergence phenomenon within the managerial...

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Corporate governance structure and mergers

Elijah Brewer, III; William E. Jackson, III; Jagtiani, … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2010

shareholders' interests, especially in large-scale transactions such as mergers and takeovers. The authors also find the results to … shareholders' merger prices. Their overall findings would support policies that promote independent outside directors on the board … of banking firms in order to provide protection for shareholders and investors at large. …

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Efficiency vs. agency motivations for bank takeovers: some empirical evidence

Vincenzo, Alessio De; Doria, Claudio; Salleo, Carmelo - Banca d'Italia - 2006

Bank takeovers result on average in little improvements in performance. This may be due to conflicting driving forces behind them; however these have seldom been studied. We study directly the motivations for bank acquisitions by analyzing the prices paid for them, under the assumption that...

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