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Why do firms have boards?
Bennedsen, Morten - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2002
In a world where corporate boards are not required by law, I identify a governance and a distribute motive for board … interpretation of strategic board establishment, I find little effect of the presence of boards on performance. I conclude that both … motives are significant and discuss related corporate governance implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419448
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Corporate governance, research and development volatility and firm performance: Evidence from Spain and Ireland
Duppati, Geeta; Sune, Albert; Samanta, Navajyoti - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
considering the global financial crisis as an exogenous shock. The descriptive statistics suggests a comparability of boards … that suggests effective governance in funding allocation to R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988740
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Corporate governance, research and development volatility and firm performance: Evidence from Spain and Ireland
Duppati, Geeta; Sune, Albert; Samanta, Navajyoti - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
considering the global financial crisis as an exogenous shock. The descriptive statistics suggests a comparability of boards … that suggests effective governance in funding allocation to R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657435
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Corporate governance, research and development volatility and firm performance : evidence from Spain and Ireland
Duppati, Geeta; Sune, Albert; Samanta, Navajyoti - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
considering the global financial crisis as an exogenous shock. The descriptive statistics suggests a comparability of boards … that suggests effective governance in funding allocation to R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878394
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Corporate governance, research and development volatility and firm performance : evidence from Spain and Ireland
Duppati, Geeta; Sune, Albert; Samanta, Navajyoti - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
considering the global financial crisis as an exogenous shock. The descriptive statistics suggests a comparability of boards … that suggests effective governance in funding allocation to R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880631
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Beyond the glass ceiling: Does gender matter?
Adams, Renée; Funk, Patricia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
The representation of women in top corporate officer positions is steadily increasing. However, little is known about the impact this will have. A large literature documents that women are different from men in their choices and in their preferences, but most of this literature relies on samples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015549
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Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval
Bøhren, Øyvind; Staubo, Siv - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 28 (2014) C, pp. 152-168
corporate boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be liquidated unless at … balance may produce firms with inefficient organizational forms or inefficient boards. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052916
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Vertical integration and investor protection in developing countries
Macchiavello, Rocco - 2009
The industrial organization of developing countries is characterized by the pervasive use of subcontracting arrangements among small, financially constrained firms. This paper asks whether vertical integration relaxes those financial constraints. It shows that vertical integration trades off the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279622
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Mis-Allocation within Firms: Internal Finance and International Trade
Doerr, Sebastian; Marin, Dalia; Suverato, Davide; … - 2021
This paper develops a novel theory of capital mis-allocation within firms that stems from managers’ empire building and informational frictions within the organization. Introducing an internal capital market into a two-factor model of multi-segment firms, we show that international competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799726
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Relationship finance by banks and non-bank institutional investors: A review within the theory of the firm
Andreani, Ettore; Neuberger, Doris - 2004
In continental Europe, banks are more and more replaced by non-bank institutional investors in the financing and control of firms. This must not imply a shift to arm's length finance, if these institutional investors develop relationships with firms similar to the traditional longterm bank-firm...
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