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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Agency Conflict"”.
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Are All Shares Equal? A Measure of Secondary Agency Conflict and an Examination of its Influence on Investor Reactions to Acquisition Announcements
… has been established as the source of primary agency conflict between managers and shareholders. The research presented in the chapters that follow explain how the <em>combination </em>of ownership and control also represent a significant problem for many dispersed shareholders. Prior research …
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Pengaruh kebijakan dividen, struktur kepemilikan, profitabilitas, dan pertumbuhan perusahaan terhadap kebijakan hutang perusahaan non keuangan di LQ45
… untuk mengelola perusahaan yang akan memunculkan agency cost yang tidak sedikit. Perbedaan kepentingan antara pemilik perusahaan dan pihak manajerial akan menimbulkan agency conflict yang akan berpengaruh pada pengambilan keputusan, salah satunya adalah keputusan untuk menggunakan hutang. …
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The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject
… study asks: What are the conditions of community conflicts within the Vietnamese community and how are those conflicts related to the processes of Canadian national identity formation? The production and contestation of Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity in the making of Canadian national identity …
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Towards an improved understanding of how multi-national corporations manage agency conflicts : the case of ArvinMeritor, Inc.
Agency theory suggests that separating the ownership and control of a firm results in areas of conflict between the owners and controllers. This defines the firm as a nexus of contracts between various stakeholders with conflicting objectives. Management's task is to align the stakeholders and …
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The moderating effect of firm size on corporate governance practices with firm’s capital structure
… governance as a monitoring Practice for reducing agency conflict issues especially in making capital structure decisions. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the influence of corporate governance on capital structure among public-listed companies in Malaysia. Using the annual reports of 273 …
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Developing shared understandings of multi-agency working with adults who self-neglect
… is to develop an understanding of how multi-agency working in self-neglect cases can be improved, whilst respecting the autonomy of service users who self-neglect. This research applies the methodology of professionalising action research in a new setting, that of multi-agency working in the …
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Essays on international corporate cash holdings
… only in Canada, France, UK and the US. The agency motive plays a role in the rise in cash balances in Germany, consistent with the perspective that agency problems of cash holdings primarily manifest in countries with weak external governance. My analysis highlights that the functioning of …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
… exacerbates the shareholder-bondholder agency conflict. In the second chapter, we examine whether narcissistic CEOs engage more in opportunistic insider trading relative to other types of CEOs. By using a numeric measure of CEO narcissism based on textual analysis, we find that CEOs with …
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Corporate governance, conservatism and firm performance: Evidence from China
… literature has shown that conservatism reduced agency conflict and was beneficial for corporate governance in developed countries; however, little evidence has been provided for emerging countries such as China. Sample companies are selected from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges for the …
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Institutional segmentation of equity markets: causes and consequences
… of stocks that cause high implementation or agency costs. Incorporating segmentation effects substantially improves both explained variance in IO and model parsimony (essentially requiring just one input: market capitalization). Our evidence clearly establishes a role for both implementation …
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Economic Deregulation And Corporate Dividend Policy
… in general consistent with predictions of the agency theory of dividends. However, the empirical results fail to provide support to hypotheses based on the information content theory and the clientele theory of dividends in the setting of economic deregulation.</p>
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors' Involvement in Firms Post Initial Public Offering
… in previous studies, can lead to significant agency conflicts. Hence, the main objective of my thesis is to explore the extent, type and channels of private equity and venture capital investors' involvement in firms post-flotation, and its impact on the long-run performance. To answer these …
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Governance, poverty and natural resources management. A case study of the Niger Delta
… emphasis on resources for governance, actors¿ agency, arrangements of access to resources and governance outcomes in the Delta region. Evidence from the study shows that while the state and corporate actors only contextualise resources in terms of economic value, local actors interprete …