This study explores how well Chinese business enterprises are satisfying managers' information needs in decision …-making. A survey of managers was conducted in 72 firms from the Wuhan area, encompassing a variety of industries, sizes and … strategies. The managers identified a wide range of information as being important, including financial, non-financial, and …

This study compares the attitudes of managers with those of external auditors towards common practices and issues of … managers and 28 auditing firms. Mann-Whitney U tests showed that the external auditors significantly viewed earnings management … practices to be less ethical than the managers did. No significant differences attributable to gender were found. Male and …

based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …

around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey … distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated … blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management …