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Stakeholder Influence and Board Role Performance in Microfinance Organizations : A Theory-Based Approach

Mori, Neema - 2014

Microfinance organizations provide financial services to low income individuals. In this paper I argue that good … stakeholders who sit on boards of microfinance organizations. The paper first identifies six types of microfinance stakeholders who …. Stakeholder, agency and resource dependence perspectives are used as theoretical foundations, and used to identify stakeholder …

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Stakeholders and shareholders are executives really "penny wise and pound foolish" about ESG?

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian; Trivedi, Vinay; … - 2019

Currently, there is much debate about the role that non-investor stakeholder interests play in the governance of public … more equitably shared among investors and society. However, advocacy for a more stakeholder-centric governance model is … the CEOs and CFOs of companies in the S&P 1500 Index to understand the extent to which they incorporate stakeholder needs …

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Board composition and corporate social responsibility : Uncovering the effects of co-opted directors

El Saleh, Ali I.; Jurdi, Doureige J. - 2021

This study evaluates the effect of board composition on firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) score. We report new evidence which shows a significant and negative association between co-opted directors and the CSR score. This finding is robust to various approaches that account for...

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Performance and Governance in Microfinance Institutions

Mersland, Roy - 2010

We examine the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI) using …

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The double-edged sword of CEO activism

Larcker, David F.; Miles, Stephen A.; Tayan, Brian; … - 2018

CEO activism — the practice of CEOs taking public positions on environmental, social, and political issues not directly related to their business — has become a hotly debated topic in corporate governance. To better understand the implications of CEO activism, we examine its prevalence, the...

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CEO power and board structure of banks : a developing country's perspective

Adeabah, David - 2018

This study examines the implications of CEO power on the board structure of banks in the Ghanaian banking industry. Using a unique hand-collected dataset in respect of 21 commercial banks in Ghana for the 2009 – 2017 periods, the results show that CEO power underscores the absence or lack of...

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Winning Virtuous Strategy Creation by Interlocking Interconnecting Directors in Boards of Directors in Firms in Information Century

Ledenyov, Dimitri - 2015

The article presents an original research on 1) the information theory of the board of directors and 2) the strategy creation by the interlocking interconnecting directors in the boards of directors in the firms in an information century. We review the possible structures of the board of...

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Boards in microfinance institutions : how do stakeholders matter?

Mori, Neema; Mersland, Roy - In: Journal of management & governance 18 (2014) 1, pp. 285-313

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Does the human capital of board directors add value to firms? : evidence from an Asian market

Tuan Van Nguyen; Nguyen, An; Locke, Stuart; Reddy, Krishna - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper investigates the effect of the human capital of directors on the financial performance of Vietnamese-listed companies. The dynamic system generalised method of moments (system GMM) estimator is used to examine a panel data-set consisting of 315 firm-year observations over a four-year...

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Profitability and Executive Board Turnover in Russian Banks

Kudryashova, Aleksandra - 2020

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