Der Aufsatz befasst sich mit der Bedeutung von Kommunikation für den Beirat im Mittelstand und zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen dieser Aktivitäten auf. Durch eigene Kommunikation kann der Beirat seine Rolle als Experten- und Ratgebergremium noch stärker ausfüllen und sich in bestimmten...

The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) has been vilified as a “death panel.” Despite these and other criticisms, the IPAB statute can and should be interpreted to make health care better, safer, and less wasteful for the United States healthcare system by focusing payment towards...

Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

When a member of Congress introduces legislation, the Constitution requires that legislative proposal to secure the approval of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the president (unless Congress overrides a presidential veto) before it can become law. In all cases, either chamber of...

Anhand von 24 Interviews mit Familienunternehmern, Beiräten und Sanierungsexperten wird die Wirkung von wirtschaftlichen Krisen auf die Arbeit von freiwilligen Aufsichtsgremien in Familienunternehmen untersucht. Dabei wird zum einen der Einfluss der verschiedenen Stakeholder auf die Aufgaben...

We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional...

We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional...

We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional...

The author shows that advisory boards in technology-based startups have seven different roles and functions: control, advice, networking, signalling, capital provision, co-management, coordination. It is shown that venture capital investors try to influence the importance of these roles in...

Nicolai C. Striewe analyzes potential opportunistic behavior of REIT managers and provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of institutional monitoring as a corporate governance mechanism. The author also suggests ways to promote sustainable management by means of institutional...

"Abstract: We measure the value of shareholder proxy access by using a recent development in the ability of shareholders to nominate candidates for board seats. We use the SEC's October 4, 2010 announcement that it would significantly delay implementation of its August 2010 proxy access rule as...