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Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database
Krafft, Jackie; Qu, Yiping; Quatraro, Francesco; Ravix, … - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899028
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Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database
Krafft, Jackie; Qu, Yiping; Quatraro, Francesco; Ravix, … - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899761
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Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database
Krafft, Jackie; Qu, Yiping; Quatraro, Francesco; Ravix, … - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607938
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Cultural differences and board gender diversity
Carrasco, Amélia; Francoeur, Claude; Réal, Isabelle; … - HAL - 2012
As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World … the imbalance of women on boards and the need to address this issue. Moreover, our analysis of these reports indicates … that the low proportion of women observed on corporate boards varies across countries, which raises the question as to why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899027
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Ownership Structure and Debt Leverage: Empirical Test of a Trade-Off Hypothesis on French Firms
Bruslerie, Hubert De La; Latrous, Imen - HAL - 2012
Debt may help to manage type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of capital. A sample of 112 firms listed on the French stock market over the period 1998-2009 is empirically tested. It supports an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820683
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Women and Corporate Governance : Towards a New Model!
Beaufort, Viviane De; Summers, Lucy - HAL - 2013
gender diversity, thus creating greater efficiency. Promoting women to positions of power only makes sense, however, if these … women are allowed to bring, in terms of skills and behavior, a difference to the table. This involves confronting the … study on women and their relation to power, undertaken in France and abroad (published in October 2012), allowed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820799
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A mission-centric view of the firm: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Levillain, Kevin; Segrestin, Blanche - HAL - 2012
Social Entrepreneurship causes increasing debate in the literature and represents a growing enigma for theories of the firm. Beyond the divergences in its definitions, we show that its mission to create "social value" is an identifiable common feature that cannot be satisfactorily described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821084
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Una contribución a la evaluación de las reformas al Gobierno Corporativo de las empresas: aplicación a la Argentina
Chisari, Omar; Ferro, Gustavo - HAL - 2012
In this work we do two things: 1) an assessment of the current academic opinions and of the present situa-tion around the world, 2) a reconsideration of the quantitative evaluaton of corporate governance reforms from the perspective of general equilibrium. Corporate governance could be defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821129
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What do we know about delistings? A survey of the literature
Djama, Constant; Martinez, Isabelle; Serve, Stéphanie - HAL - 2012
exchange requirements, poor performance) and what strategies did the managers implement to attempt to avoid delisting? Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736419
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Taxes on severance pay, corporate governance and golden handshakes
Llense, Fabienne - HAL - 2009
This paper puts forward an explanation of the rapid increase in golden handshake provision in Europe over the last ten years, based on both enhanced investor protection and attractive tax codes for severance pay. This article takes up a framework in which asymmetric information about the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738557