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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"CEO power"”.
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The Moderating Role of Board Structure and Market Competition on CEO Power, Risk, and Investment Efficiency
… and market competition on association between CEO power and risk by analysing the UK-listed financial and non-financial firms. The third empirical chapter provides evidence on the role of market competition in the nexus between powerful CEO and investment efficiency. Panel data estimation …
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Essays on corporate governance and executive compensation
… the interconnections between blockholders and CEO power, and the link between deferred compensation (inside debt) and financial performance/firm behavior. In the first chapter, I consider agency theory’s prediction that a large shareholder, ”blockholder,” can serve as an effective governance …
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THE EFFECTS OF BOARD AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE: EVIDENCE FROM EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES
… these studies have ignored the effect of CEO and ownership structure’s intervening behaviour on the effectiveness of board monitoring role and corporate governance disclosure in developing countries. Using hand-collected data of 92 listed firms in East African countries (54 from Kenya, 16 …
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General Counsel Characteristics and Financial Reporting Quality
… of the GC. Since the GC reports to the CEO and prior studies suggest the CEO can wield significant influence over other executives, I also examine how CEO power can affect the GC’s impact on financial reporting quality.</p> <p>This study contributes to accounting and GC literature by …
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Two Essays on Capital Structure Decisions of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Entrenchment and Ethical Corporate Citizenship
… the impact of ethical corporate citizenship and CEO power on cost of capital, and firm value in the context of stakeholder theory. Firms listed as World's Most Ethical Companies (WMECs) exemplify ethical corporate citizenship, which is operationalized as a binary variable of 1 for WMECs, and zero …
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Corporate Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking in the U.S. Banking Industry
… include are board size, proportion of outsiders, CEO power, CEO tenure and board tenure. We find that a large board enhances bank performance, as proxied by Tobin’s Q and loan quality variables. We find no evidence that board structure or CEO power influences firm performance. We see that CEO and …
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The Impact of Social Influence Pressure on CFO Judgments
… pressure from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on the CFO’s propensity to make revisions to financial results in order to meet an earnings target. This study also examines how followership propensities and core self-evaluations (CSE) influence the pressure effects. This study complements …
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Succession rules for CEO in Japanese firms : institutions and agency
The succession of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has attracted growing attention from social scientists and management researchers. CEO succession provides a context in which individual decisions and agency, stakeholder interests and conflict, and the organizational needs for legitimacy and …
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
… on corporate culture are mainly driven by CEO turnover, especially if incumbent CEOs are replaced by outsiders, not insiders. New outside CEOs are recruited from firms with better culture and higher asset sales. Activist-appointed directors also influence corporate culture by promoting …
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Essays on boards of directors
… 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 also better innovation output as measured by the number of successful patents …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Top Management Team Characteristics
… by environment, organizational, and leadership (CEO) characteristics, (2) TMT characteristics significantly influences the firm performance, even after adjusting for the endogeneity, and (3) the relationship between TMT characteristics and firm performance is moderated by managerial discretion …
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Bank regulation, supervision and financial stability: An empirical study
… positively related to the level of supervisory power and the number of on-site inspections, and negatively associated with the level of supervisory consolidation. My findings have important policy implications. My results suggest that to mitigate the international transmission of shocks, the …
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Interrelationship between insider trading and managerial attributes
… testing two competing hypotheses: the managerial power hypothesis and the tournament hypothesis, the research finds a robust evidence supporting the managerial power hypothesis that insiders in large CEO pay disparity firms tend to exploit inside earnings news to profit their stock purchases, and …
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Analyst Reputation, Communication and Information Acquisition
… 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 firm's management. At times, it makes certain key decisions itself. A major concern regarding the effectiveness of …
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The Effect of Audit Committee Compensation on the Procurement of Non-audit Services
… in NAS. When examining the effect of the CEO on the NAS purchase decision, the findings reveal that the CEO has the ability to influence the proportion of NAS purchased. When CEO power is high, the audit committee purchases greater proportions of NAS. Lastly, when the audit committee has …
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Corporate Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of the United Kingdom
… the third paper examines the effects of CEO narcissism and power on corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We theorise that CEOs’ narcissistic tendencies and power will influence their firms’ SDGs engagement and reporting practices. We also examine whether SDGs …
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Essays On CEO Turnover, Succession, And Compensation
This dissertation is a series of study on CEO turnover, succession, and compensation, which consists of three essays. In essay 1, I investigate how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affects CEO tenure and the characteristics of CEO turnover. I do not find a significant relation between financial …