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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Board monitoring"”.
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Combined assurance, firm reporting and market consequences: The mediating roles of Board monitoring intensity and integrated reporting quality
… environment and the role of IR quality and board monitoring intensity (BMI) are rarely examined in the literature. Thus, this study relies on agency and stakeholder theories to empirically assess the economic (i.e., capital market liquidity performance) and reporting (i.e., reporting …
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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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Three Essays on the Role of Corporate Governance in Firms' Spending on R&D and Controlling Earnings-Management Practices: The Role of Independent Directors’ Tenure and Network in Controlling Earnings-Management Practices; The Impact of Board Diversity on the Corporate Propensity to R&D Spending; The Association between Directors’ Multiple-Board Sittings, Tenure, Financial Expertise, and R&D Spending
… by building on agency theory and emphasising board monitoring, first essay investigates the role of independent directors’ tenure and connection to several boards in controlling real earnings management (REM). This study finds that independent directors elected to board before appointment of …
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New Sheriff in Town: Antecedents and Consequences of Effective Lead Independent Directors
<p>This paper examines a relatively new form of board leadership structure, the Lead Independent Director (LID), that has not received much attention in the corporate governance literature. This role was adopted in 2003 by most large US firms as a result of stock exchange mandates and pressure from …
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Essays on boards of directors
… of three self-contained essays on corporate boards of directors. In the first essay, I examine the effect of overconfident CEO directors on corporate innovation and find that such directors are significantly associated with not only greater innovation input as measured by R&D intensity, but …
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Kontrollägande och uppköpsreglering - Likabehandling vid offentliga uppköpserbjudanden och effekterna i bolagsstyrningen
… voting on the general meeting, general monitoring of the board, monitoring management remuneration, overseeing related party transaction, engaging in dialogue with the board and, when applicable, adapting governance to the required level of entrepreneurialism. The author then identifies …
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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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Analyst Reputation, Communication and Information Acquisition
… Melumad. In this work, we study the optimal board composition---of monitoring and advisory "types"---within a framework of strategic communication between the CEO and the board when the CEO is an empire builder. The board of directors performs the dual role of monitoring and advising the …
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Essays on Corporate Governance and Delaware Incorporation
… are more likely to be encouraged to perform monitoring roles than those in non-Delaware firms. By using a sample of 620 Delaware firms and 437 non-Delaware firms from 2002 to 2005 in ExecuComp, we first find that Delaware firms pay their directors more compensation than non-Delaware firms. …
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Impact of Foreign Directors on Firms’ Corporate Governance, Risk and Performance
This thesis explores board nationality diversity, focusing on foreign non-executive directors and their relationship with CEO compensation, firm performance, and crash risk for a sample of UK firms from 2002 to 2015. First, we examine the changes in board composition over the years and find an …