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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance

Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003

In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...

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Good Governance and Economic Development. An Analysis on the Basis of the Budgetary Policy of Lebanon

Azar, Pierre - 2005

Untersuchungszeitraum hinweg abnimmt und sich dies in den budgetpolitischen Daten des Libanon entsprechend niederschlägt. Auf diesem … schaffen. Damit wird am Fallbeispiel Libanon aufgezeigt, daß eine unstete wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ihre Ursachen häufig … between budgetary policy and the different aspects of Governance.It is shown that the quality of Governance in Lebanon is …

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Analisis Pengaruh Corporate Governance Terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Pada Perusahaan Consumer Goods Yang Terdaftar Di Bei Dengan Manajemen Laba Sebagai Variabel Intervening

Sibarani, Jojor Lisbet - 2010

Jojor Lisbet Sibarani, 2010. Analysis the Influance of Corporate Governance to Financial Performance for Consumers Goods Firm which listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange, with Earning Management as Intervening Variable.The purpose of this research is to find out and to analyze the influance of...

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UK executive pay: the special case of executive bonuses

Fattorusso, Jay - 2006

Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...

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Ownership, control and firm performance in Europe

Tong, Guanqun - 2010

This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...

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The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK

Guest, Paul M. - 2009

We examine the impact of board size on firm performance for a large sample of 2746 UK listed firms over 1981-2002. The UK provides an interesting institutional setting, because UK boards play a weak monitoring role and therefore any negative effect of large board size is likely to reflect the...

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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - 2008

performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other hand, it may lead to entrenchment of upper management which may be...

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Essays on institutional trader monitoring and its impact on firm value, CEO compensation, and board composition

Chen, Chi-Wei Brandon, Banking & Finance, Australian … - 2011

The ?Wall Street Rule? (WSR), a form of institutional investor monitoring, has long been viewed as a ?cut-and-run? strategy adopted by disillusioned institutional investors to express their dissatisfaction with the management of a company. This dissertation shows that WSR, far from being a...

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex.

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...

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