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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950
White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender diversity diminishes over …
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Determinanten der Vorstandsvergütung: Eine empirische Untersuchung der deutschen Prime-Standard-Unternehmen
Rapp, Marc Steffen; Wolff, Michael - 2010
Basierend auf einem neuen, die deutschen Prime-Standard-Unternehmen für die Jahre 2005 bis 2007 umfassenden Datensatz untersuchen wir die Determinanten der Höhe der Vorstandsvergütung. Dabei unterscheiden wir drei Kategorien möglicher Einflussfaktoren: Unternehmens-, Performance- und...
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Vielfalt als Wettbewerbsfaktor nutzen: Diversity Management in Hamburg; Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung
Klaffke, Martin - 2008
The study analyses the application of Diversity Management among companies of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg … companies are not extensively familiar with the concept Diversity Management and that practical application is only limited so … implementation of Diversity Management. Nearly all companies participating in the study have introduced first measures supporting …
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Team Diversity und Teamleistung im Kontext von geteilter sozialer Identität: Ein Erklärungsansatz über Kurvilinearitäten
Kirch, Johannes; Tomenendal, Matthias - 2015
Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht …Research on the relationship between functional diversity and team performance has produced mixed findings. The present … study is designed to investigate possible curvilinear relationships between functional team diversity, trust, elaboration …
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Capital structure decisions in family firms: empirical evidence from a bank-based economy
Ampenberger, Markus; Schmid, Thomas; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2009
This study examines how family firm characteristics affect capital structure decisions. In our analysis we disentangle the influence of three distinct components of a family firm: ownership, supervisory and management board activities by the founding family. Thereby, we use a unique panel...
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Considering the shareholder perspective: value-based management systems and stock market performance
Rapp, Marc Steffen; Schellong, Daniel A.; Schmidt, … - 2010
We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...
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Aktienbasierte Langfristanreize im Rahmen der Vorstandsverguetung: Evidenz auf Basis Deutscher Prime Standard Unternehmen
Rapp, Marc Steffen; Schaller, Philipp; Wolff, Michael - 2009
While in the US stock-based incentives are commonly used since the 50s of the last century, in Germany they were invented only some ten years ago. Even in 1996 firms faced considerable regulatory difficulties when willing to grant such incentives. In the meantime the legal environment has...
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Controlling shareholders and payout policy: do founding families have a special 'taste for dividends'?
Schmid, Thomas; Ampenberger, Markus; Kaserer, Christoph; … - 2010
Around the world (with the U.S. and U.K. as exceptions) concentrated ownership structures and controlling shareholders are predominant even among listed firms. We provide novel empirical evidence how such controlling shareholders, in particular founding families, affect payout policy decisions....
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Loss of control vs. risk reduction: decision factors for hiring non-family CFOs in family firms
Lutz, Eva; Schraml, Stephanie; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2010
Objectives: We examine decision factors of family firm owners for hiring a non-family Chief Financial Officer (CFO). We explore the perceptions of family firm owners towards external managers by analyzing how their family-specific and company-specific goals relate to the employment of a...
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