In this paper, we investigate the association between outside board directorships and family ownership concentration. Using a sample of 1091 firm-year observations of non-financial publicly listed firms from Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) during the 2005 to 2013 period, we find a positive...

The “Wall Street Rule” (WSR), a form of monitoring by institutional investors, has been viewed as a “cut-and-run” strategy adopted to express dissatisfaction with a company's management. In this study, we show that WSR, far from being a passive protest, is in fact a potent weapon to...

We examine whether the voluntary formation of a Risk Committee (RC) compromises the effectiveness of other monitoring duties carried out by the board members. We argue that adding more monitoring committees increases the board's internal busyness, which reduces the effectiveness of monitoring by...

Board of directors is one of the internal governance mechanisms that are intended to ensure that the interests of shareholders and managers are closely aligned. Among the most significant governance issues currently faced by the modern corporation are those relating to diversity. In this paper,...