The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the world …’s 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure … rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are domiciled. Descriptive statistics suggests that banks located in common …

performance and company performance are the focus of chapter 4. In a first step, the relation between board heterogeneity and … board performance as well as company performance is examined in general; subsequently, the influence of moderating variables …

Vorständen der DAX100-Gesellschaften über den Zeitraum von 1994 bis 2001. Neben den Turnover-Performance-Beziehungen wird die … increased all over the world. Numerous committees concern themselves with the optimal arrangement and the quality of corporate … the systematic relationship between company performance and turnover in the management boards of the DAX100 companies over …

The National Australia Bank (NAB), one of Australia's largest banks, announced losses in 2004 of AUD$360 million due to … content analysis of official investigative reports and other published documents, to determine the extent to which the Bank … role played by the Bank's leaders, were influential in creating a profit-driven culture that ultimately impacted the Bank …

Purpose - this paper aims to focus on a number of unexpected disclosures by major Australian banks, to highlight the … banks' reports and activities. Findings - The banks' financial reports were shown, in the light of later revelations, to … companies' activities and performance. This questions the usefulness of accounting standards, and the effectiveness of …

shareholdings of banks in the same group of firms. Our results show that the equity investments of financial investors … — institutional investors and banks — in Japanese listed companies at the end of June 2002 were predominantly in the high … equity capital of the firms listed on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges, with banks being the largest group of these …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …) ownership improves some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring …

-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers’ independence is positively associated with firms’ financial performance … performance, (ii) board participation of foreign stakeholders, on the other hand, enhances the firm’s export orientation and … performance by encouraging executives’ decision-making autonomy. …

reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …

differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top …' employment risks, firm performance, and size. On average, the strategic types whose managers faced greater employment risks also …