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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Board characteristics"”.
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The Impact of Board Characteristics on Earnings Management: Evidence From South Africa
… studies have questioned the effectiveness of the board of directors’ characteristics in restraining corporate misconduct, one of which is earnings management. This is because the board of directors is the linchpin of corporate governance and provides legitimacy for management's actions. This …
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The effect of board characteristics on firm financial performance of listed companies in Hong Kong
Corporate board characteristics are mainly due to the nature of directors because boards are composed of members with different backgrounds, such as family background, gender, and classification of directors which may affect directors’ roles and responsibilities within a board. Since executive …
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Ownership Structure and Board Characteristics as Determinants of CEO Turnover in South African JSE Listed Companies
… the relationship between ownership structure and board characteristics on CEO-firm performance sensitivity. The population for this study was 60 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The period covered for this study runs over 5 years from 2013 to 2017. This period was chosen mainly …
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The analysis of the relationship between board characteristics and firm financial performance in the Central Eastern European region
… Kelet-Közép-Európában (eredeti cím: Do larger boards improve shareholder value creation? – Effects of the board size on the business performance in Eastern Central Europe). Ebben a kutatásban a szerző az igazgatótanács méretének a cégek pénzügyi teljesítményére gyakorolt hatását elemzi a …
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Corporate Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking in the U.S. Banking Industry
… of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We use five proxies for bank performance including Tobin’s Q, ROA, loan loss reserve ratio, non-performing asset ratio, and net charge-offs ratio. Board characteristic variables we include are board size, proportion of …
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THE EFFECTS OF BOARD AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE: EVIDENCE FROM EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES
The corporate boards and ownership structure are central to the effective monitoring and success of a firm. However, most studies have focused on developed nations while paying relatively little attention to developing countries where institutions and corporate governance systems are weak. …
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Essays on the value relevance of earnings measures
… I examine the impact of credibility attributes – board characteristics, auditor quality and overall information quality – on the value relevance of pro forma earnings. It is hypothesized that the credibility attributes will have a statistically significant impact on investors’ reaction to pro …
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Corporate governance, professionalisation and performance of IPO firms. The role of founders and venture capitalists.
… founders play with respect to both structural board characteristics and board capital in terms of experience and prestige and whether these are linked to performance. It claims that VCs and founders shape the governance system of the firms going public and are influential in the …
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The Strategic Fit Between Board of Directors Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation
… perspectives in examining the effects of boards of directors on firm reputation. First, using upper echelons theory, I derive hypotheses about how the human and social capital, and the demographic characteristics of the board affect corporate reputation. Second, I examine how fit with an …
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Design and simulation of a PCI Express Gen 3.0 communication channel
… transmission with the added benefits of reduced board space requirements, smaller connectors and simplified PCB layouts. Since faster and faster data rates are more desirable, PCIe Gen 3.0 attempts to transmit data at 8GT/s. As part of the thesis work, an existing model of a PCIe channel which …
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Perceptions Regarding Leadership Orientations of Local School Board Chairpersons in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Local school boards are complicated governing bodies wrapped in the political tangle of their legal responsibilities, constituents' wishes, and the educational needs of the children. How then do some school board chairpersons unravel this political tangle and move their board forward while others …
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An exploratory study of the financial and non-financial performance impacts of interactions between ecosystem actors of the FinTech revolution
… seeks to understand the relationship between board diversity and performance for a sample of private FinTech firms. Incumbent FS firms encounter legacy information system (LIS) issues and competing priorities for the provision of internal investment resources. Many incumbents’ labyrinth of …
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University Board and Performance
This dissertation examines the impact of board of director characteristics and policies on nonprofit performance. Using data collected through a survey of nonprofit colleges and universities, I provide evidence that specific board member characteristics and board monitoring policies are vital in …
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Comparing bank mergers in Europe and the USA: bidding bank performance
… effectiveness is measured as the extent to which board characteristics improve bank merger outcomes in Europe and the US. Essentially, this allows the following question to be examined: Is regulation a substitute or a complement to governance? If regulation and governance are substitutes, one may …
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Three Perspectives of Mutual Fund Performance: The Indiviudal Investor, the Finance Professional, and the Board of Directors
… investors, financial advisors, and the boards of directors of mutual fund companies. In the first essay, "Comparing Fund Flow Sensitivity for Load and No-Load Funds Under Different Market States," I compare the flow-performance sensitivity of no-load funds and the three main classes of …
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Essays on corporate governance of financial institutions in the United States
… three studies that examine the significant characteristics of corporate governance for financial institutions.The first study examines the effect of corporate governance on risk taking. Previous studies have used indices, but the validity of using an index to show the complex effects of …
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A national study of the selection of school board members
… and State University and the National School Boards Association, proposed to determine salient factors in the recruitment and selection of school board members and, further, how these factors related to selected demographic and personal variables and/or the method (elected or appointed) by …
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