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'Turkeys Don't Vote for Thanksgiving!' Metaphors Used by Australian Company Directors to Describe Contradictions and Constraints on Optimal Board Performance

Areni, Charles - 2017

This report examines how Australian company directors make sense of what they perceive as conflicting responsibilities and objectives, and to identify what they see as the main constraints on optimal board functioning. Sixty directors, either managing directors (n = 14), board chairs (n = 24) or...

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CEO Education-Performance Relationship : Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Kalyanaraman, Lakshmi - 2020

The study investigates the association between CEO education and firm performance with a sample of 85 non-financial firms listed on the Saudi stock exchange during 2018 applying ordinary least squares method. CEO education is defined by three variables, the level of education, if the...

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Designing Effective Teams : Concept and Measurement Issues

Delgado Pina, Maria Isabel - 2019

In this paper, we review the research on organizational teams. The aim is delimiting the conceptual space of effectiveness and determining team-level measurement issues. According to the existence of different types of teams –work team, parallel team, project team and management team–, we...

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Conflict Resolution with Constructive Controversy, Team Performance : A Meta-Analysis

Batool, Syeda Nimra - 2019

Current meta-analysis investigates how conflict management plays vital role to articulate positive side of conflict and enhance the team performance. According to criteria, 30 studies empirically analyzed on the topic the constructive controversy and its impact on conflict resolution among team...

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Sales Growth, CEO Pay, and Corporate Governance in India

Jaiswall, Sudhir S. - 2019

Although stock return-based performance metrics are common in CEO compensation contracts in the US, similar CEO pay arrangements may not be appropriate in India given higher stock return volatility and lower liquidity. Instead, sales growth as a performance metric could be useful in...

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Management Team Structure and Mutual Fund Performance

Karagiannidis, Iordanis - 2016

We investigate the relationship between performance and portfolio management team structure of open-end mutual funds during 1997-2004. We first analyze differences in performance and risk taking between single-manager and multiple-manager mutual funds and find that the latter underperform the...

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Capital Commitment and Investment Decisions : The Role of Mutual Fund Charges

Gomez, Juan-Pedro - 2020

Many investors purchase open-end mutual funds through intermediaries, paying brokers and financial advisors for fund distribution and advice via alternative sale charge fee structures. We argue that the fee structure choice reveals valuable information about investors horizon. That allows...

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How Well Does Agency Theory Explain Executive Compensation?

Gayle, George-Levi - 2020

As the share of all income going to the top 1 percent has risen over the past four decades, so has the share of top incomes coming from labor income relative to capital income. The rise in labor income is mainly due to the explosion in executive compensation over the same periodâ€”mostly...

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Agency Costs and Firm Productivity

Bianchi, Milo - 2019

We explore how the separation between ownership and control affects firm productivity. Using Finnish administrative data on the universe of limited liability firms, we document a substantial increase in firm productivity when the CEO obtains majority ownership or when the majority owner becomes...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk : Implications from Employee Satisfaction

Lu, Weijie - 2015

performances and financial risk. Consistent with human relations theories of the firm, results show that firms' corporate social … to lower systematic risk and better operating performances. In my empirical tests, I address potential endogeneity … firm risk and leads to stronger corporate performances through the channel of employee satisfaction …

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