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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Chief Executive Officers--CEOs"”.
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Corporate governance in Saudi Arabia: overview and empirical investigation
… four samples (board of directors' members, chief executive officers 'CEOs', audit committee members and shareholders) towards the four mechanisms of corporate governance investigated in this study, namely: shareholders' rights; board of directors; audit committees and internai audit; and …
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Corporate Governance, Ceo Compensation and total shareholder returns in South Africa
… relating to apparent excessive and unwarranted executive directors’ salaries, has increased since the financial turmoil experienced in 2008. The commentaries and reports suggest that corporate governance interventions are not strong enough to curb the excessive remuneration packages awarded to …
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Building An Evidence Based Succession Planning Tool For Chief Nurse Executives
… evidence-based succession planning tool for the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) role within academic medical centers. The purpose of this project was to design and validate a tool that could be used by Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and CNOs to prospectively implement development plans for qualified …
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Leadership Effectiveness from the Perspective of Chief Executive Officers in Kuwait
… organisations in Kuwait from the perspective of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). This is an area that has been neglected by the extant literature, and no integrated model for assessing CEO effectiveness exists for us to fully understand the phenomenon. Based on a positivist qualitative research …
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Drivers and hindrances of strategy execution using the balanced scorecard
… consistently remains a global challenge. Chief executive officers (CEOs) have been removed as a result of failure to execute strategies. Countries have excellent policies and strategies on paper that they are failing to execute. Many strategy execution processes and frameworks have been …
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Internal Control Mechanisms and Forced CEO Turnover: An Empirical Investigation
… mechanisms by analyzing 94 forced turnovers of chief executive officers (CEOs). It seeks to answer two primary questions: One, do governance-related characteristics influence the promptness with which poorly-performing CEOs are removed from office; and two, are removals of CEOs followed by …
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Community College Succession Planning: Preparing the Next Generation of Women for Leadership Roles
… advancement into senior leadership roles (i.e., Chief Executive Officers [CEOs]; Chief Academic Officers [CAOs]; Chief Student Services Officers [CSSOs]; and Chief Financial Officers [CFOs]) through succession planning. The study focused on cultivating women for leadership roles in rural …
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CEO Implicit Person Theory: Its Effect on Firm Level Outcomes via HR Practices and Leadership Behavior
… IPT. However, in organizations the IPT held by chief executive officers (CEOs) may be of paramount importance theoretically and practically given that the CEO is the one who leads the entire organization. No study has yet examined how CEOs’ IPT influences organizations and what the consequences …
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Essays in Behavioural Corporate Finance
… utilising the hand-written signature styles of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). The proxy is motivated from psychology research, which proposes that individuals are more conservative if their first names are prone to be abbreviated or missing in their …
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Does CEO Compensation Encourage Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from FTSE350.
This thesis investigates the effect of CEOs remuneration components on company risk-taking activities. The primary aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of the link between the Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) compensation packages and their effects on the company volatility. …
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The Perception of CEOs and CIOs in Regard to Planning and Information Systems Success in Higher Education in the Southeastern United States
… to identify the perceptions of the presidents/chief executive officers (CEOs) and the senior information systems executive'chief information officers (CIOs) in not-for-profit institutions of higher education, accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and whose highest …
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Healthcare Strategic Management: The Impact of State and Federal Funding Levels on the Implementation of Strategic Plans at Tennessee Hospitals.
… purpose of this study was to determine hospital executive management’s perceptions of how turbulence in the politico-legal sector of the macroenvironment impacted the strategic management systems of Tennessee hospitals. In particular, how did Federal and State funding restrictions (Medicare and …
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Branding CEOs : How relationship between cheif executive officers, corporate brands and stakeholders image can influence perceived brand value
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become recognised as brands in the academic and popular domain, but little is known about the relationship between these senior manager ¿brands¿ and the corporate brand of the organisation they represent. Since stakeholders associate the CEO¿s reputation with …
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Leadership and Healthcare Performance
… study also aims to identify differences between chief executive officers' (CEOs) leadership traits among lean (mediocre performance), high (top 20th percentile), and low performing (bottom 20th percentile) U.S. hospitals in regards to their quality of care measures. Two separate online surveys …
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The relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance: A case study of Namibian State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs)
Over the years, the increase in executive remuneration in both the private sector and state-owned entities (SOEs) has been the subject of intense discussions. The poor performance of some SOEs with highly remunerated executives, begs the question whether chief executive officers (CEOs) in Namibian …
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Role Modelling for Organisational Citizenship Behaviours in Not-for-Profit Organisations: A Phenomenological Investigation in Tanzania
… This study explored how and to what extent Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and senior managers promote organisational citizenship behaviours in not-for-profit organisations in Tanzania. The study attempted to find out how role modelling for OCBs influences the subordinate staff's willingness …
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Configuration, Coordination, Learning And Foreign Market Entry: A Study Of Canadian Software Companies Entering The United States
… variables. The questionnaire was sent to the chief executive officers (CEOs) of the entire population of 176 larger Canadian software companies that do business in the United States.;Responses were received from seventy six companies. In addition, semi-structured follow up interviews were …
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EXECUTIVE PEER ADVISORY GROUPS: WHO THEY ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR BENEFITS? WHY DO MEMBERS JOIN AND STAY?
<p>Executive peer advisory groups (EPAGs) are exclusive organizations in which chief executive officers (CEOs) and presidents of businesses can problem solve business challenges, discuss business strategies, share best practices, and solve critical growth and performance issues. Executive peer …
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A tale of two predictors : the impact of regulatory focus and entrepreneurial orientation on small and medium-sized enterprises
… In particular, it examines the effects of chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) regulatory focus and firms’ entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on SMEs. Regulatory focus theory suggests that people can pursue their goals via a promotion focus (associated with a concern for growth and a desire for …
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How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers
… greater understanding of what it is like to be a chief executive officer in the corporate arena who self-identifies as having a strong spiritual foundation. More specifically, this research investigated what 11 CEOs had to say about the impact of spirituality on their approach to leadership in …
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