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Performance-Studie deutscher Familienunternehmen

Leiber, Marietta Kersten - 2008

Die Arbeit untersucht die Performance von Familienunternehmen im Rahmen einer empirischen Studie anhand von 892 Datens … Familienunternehmen durch den Einsatz vielf?ltiger Familienvariablen hinsichtlich der Aspekte Eigentum, Kontrolle und Management … Eignerfamilien und externen Anteilseignern gelten als urs?chlich f?r Performanceunterschiede zwischen Familienunternehmen und …

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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality

Lamanna, Francesca - 2013

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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

examines the impact of M & A on profitability of firms in India, where the corporate landscape is dominated by family-owned and … reduction in owner-vs.-manager agency problems. Our findings are consistent with bulk of the existing literature on family …

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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

model endogenizing managerial contracting problem is proposed, which predicts that WSR and manager?s equity-based incentives …

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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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The gender composition of boards after an IPO

Dimovski, William; Brooks, Robert - 2006

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of … large Australian companies, after listing. Design/methodology/approach - This study investigates the gender composition of … market is generally satisfied by the gender composition of boards from the time of the IPO. Originality/value - This paper …

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A critical analysis of the independence of the internal audit function : evidence from Australia

Christopher, Joe; Sarens, Gerrit; Leung, Philomena - 2009

Purpose – This study aims to critically analyse the independence of the internal audit function through its relationship with management and the audit committee. Design/methodology/approach – Results are based on a critical comparison of responses from questionnaires sent out to Australian...

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