En el presente trabajo estudiamos la influencia sobre la performance de las empresas cotizadas españolas entre 2007 y 2009 del número de consejos de administración a que pertenecen sus consejeros independientes. Nuestros resultados ponen de manifiesto una relación no lineal como consecuencia...

We examine the outside director selection process using unique data on appointments of academic directors. Overall, we find academic directors tend to be appointed by small- and mid-cap firms expanding their boards. However, we find important differences in both the factors influencing academic...

Extant research suggests that moderate CEO optimism can be beneficial to the firm. However, little is known about how boards of directors learn the effects of CEO optimism. Evidence from psychology indicates that individuals/groups may learn more from failure than success, while a simple...

We examine the certification and resignation decisions of independent directors in China, and provide evidence on the relative influence that social, political and reputational factors have on the decisions of independent directors in the presence of private information about future adverse...

Research question/issue: This study examines how ownership structure affects the presence of female directors on supervisory and management boards and the related advantages of gender diversity in the boardroom. It was conducted in a post-communist country and the argument is that the process of...

We examine dispersion in director characteristics within a board. Directors with different skills can augment the board's overall expertise and decision making flexibility, but they also face coordination problems. Empirically, the negative effect of dispersion on value prevails. To establish...

Using Chhaochharia's and Grinstein's (JF, 2009) data and methodology, Guthrie, Sokolowsky, and Wan (JF, 2010) document that compensation committee independence leads to an increase in executive pay, and that the increase is concentrated in firms with powerful monitors. These findings stand in...

We study reputation incentives in the director labor market and find that directors with multiple directorships distribute their effort unequally based on the directorship's relative prestige. When directors experience an exogenous increase in a directorship's relative ranking, their board...

We propose a measure of the advising capacity of corporate boards that focuses on the distribution of committee assignments. We then study the characteristics and impact of directors dedicated to providing strategic counsel to top management. We find that advisory directors possess professional...

This paper analyzes the characteristics of firms that declare board directors as independents, although the directors are not strictly independent, and examines the consequences in terms of performance and corporate governance outcomes. Based on publicly available information, eight criteria of...