We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for new firm cohorts but locked it in for incumbents. Rejecting the canonical hold-up prediction - that increasing...

Objective: The objective of the article is to determine the effect of governance structure components (audit committee presence, board size adequacy, and board leadership) on SMEs’ performance and the moderating effect of chief executive officer (CEO) tenure on the influence of governance...

Corporate Governance as a mechanism helps to align management's goals with those of thestakeholders that are to increase firm performance. The aim of this study is to identify therelationship between board leadership structure and firm performance of listed companies inSri Lanka during the...

This paper examines how changes in local political leadership affects firms' governance structure. Using a novel data set, I document that following the appointment of a new city-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary, local firms increase (decrease) the fraction of directors who share a...

Corporate Governance as a mechanism helps to align management's goals with those of the stakeholders that are to increase firm performance. The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between board leadership structure and firm performance of listed companies in Sri Lanka during the...

We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...

We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

Using novel data on independent directors' opinions in China, we investigate the stock and labor market effects prompted by independent directors publicly saying "no" to major board decisions. We find that the market reacts negatively to modified director opinions, but positively to firms...

Nahezu alle Teilbranchen der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft sind einem erhöhten Maß an öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit ausgesetzt. Aspekte des Tierwohls innerhalb der etablierten Produktionssysteme werden im Besonderen kritisch hinterfragt. Gleichzeitig ist das Agribusiness durch starke...

Using novel data on independent directors' opinions in China, we investigate the stock and labor market effects prompted by independent directors publicly saying "no" to major board decisions. We find that the market reacts negatively to modified director opinions, but positively to firms...

Die Hierarchie innerhalb einer Organisation bleibt wichtig, sie wird jedoch immer öfter durch informelle Netzwerke aufgeweicht. Das ist eines der Hauptergebnisse der diesjährigen Studie "Führung im Umbruch". Für die Studie wurden 466 Fach- und Führungskräfte verschiedener Branchen und...

This discussion paper presents an analysis of the performance of national (NIS) and communal irrigation systems (CIS) by region, complemented by technical and institutional assessments of 30 sample NIS and 66 sample CIS in Luzon. It shows that there is value in looking at subnational trends....

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...

Die Hierarchie innerhalb einer Organisation bleibt wichtig, sie wird jedoch immer öfter durch informelle Netzwerke aufgeweicht. Das ist eines der Hauptergebnisse der diesjährigen Studie "Führung im Umbruch". Für die Studie wurden 466 Fach- und Führungskräfte verschiedener Branchen und...

Part I Managing in a Monastic Context -- A Monastery Is More than a Business: Spiritual Foundations of the Rule of St. Benedict for the ‘Oikonomia’ of a Monastery -- Using Knowledge from Management Science in the Context of the Church: Possibilities and Limitations -- Management of...

"Leading at All Levels: Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most from the Workplace moves away from traditional perspectives on leadership and, utilising ideas from systemic consultation, provides a rationale for leadership at all levels, emphasising the potential of everyone in organisations to...