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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"board composition"”.
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Regulatory requirements and board composition
… research question of regulatory requirements and board composition. Specifically it has two objectives: first, to provide evidence of the impact of the Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice (PGCG&BP) introduction in 2003 by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on board …
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Causes and Consequences of Board Composition
… the causes and consequences of patterns in the composition of American boards of directors. The three papers each focus on one type of corporate director: outsiders, women, and workers. The results from the outside director paper suggest that companies employing more female directors tend to …
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The analysis of Board Composition and Financial Performance
… are engines of growth of Tanzanian economy. The board of directors, in today corporate, assumed responsibility for devising corporate strategy, evaluating managerial performance, providing strategic direction, putting corporate governance policies in place and ensuring an adequate return for the …
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Effects of Board Composition on Pricing of Charity Care among Nonprofit Hospitals
… the measure. This study hypothesizes that the composition of the board of directors in nonprofit hospitals significantly influences the discretionary accounting choices that lead to increased reported charity care. Additional literature and anecdotal evidence suggest that CFOs will exert …
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The impact of board composition on financial performance of listed corporations in Zambia.
… lose jobs. Corporate governance classifies the board into four attributes, namely, board composition, board characteristics, board structure and board process. The objective of this study was to examine whether there is a relationship between board composition (board size, board independence and …
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The impact of board composition on financial performance of listed corporations in Zambia.
… lose jobs. Corporate governance classifies the board into four attributes, namely, board composition, board characteristics, board structure and board process. The objective of this study was to examine whether there is a relationship between board composition (board size, board independence and …
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TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM HETEROGENEITIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF BOARD COMPOSITION
… given little attention to the moderating role of board composition. This study examines the moderating effects of the proportion of outside board membership on the relationships between top management team heterogeneities and firm performance. The upper echelons theory would contend that outside …
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Board composition and the use of accounting measures: the effect on the relation between CEO compensation and firm performance
Boards of directors of corporations have been criticized for failing to effectively perform their roles of ratifying and monitoring managerial decisions, retaining and terminating top management, and evaluating and rewarding executive performance. critics have suggested that increasing the …
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The influence of selected managerial quality and board composition variables on the performance of German cooperative banks – an analysis of age, gender, education and experience as well as board size and composition
… education, experience and gender of executive board members, as well as the board size and composition, have an influence on the long-term sustainability of German cooperative banks? Due to declining profit margins, German cooperative banks are facing increasing threats to their future …
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Effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of state owned enterprises in Zambia.
… corporate governance attributes used included board composition, independent committees, board size and firm size. A random sample of 165 respondents from SOEs was selected for the study out of which 125 respondents completely answered and returned the questionnaires. This gave a response rate …
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Effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of state owned enterprises in Zambia.
… corporate governance attributes used included board composition, independent committees, board size and firm size. A random sample of 165 respondents from SOEs was selected for the study out of which 125 respondents completely answered and returned the questionnaires. This gave a response rate …
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The governance-performance relationship: examining the impact of nonprofit governance on financial performance in medium-sized nonprofit organizations
… focuses on how nonprofit governance, and the boards entrusted to fulfill this critical function, impacts nonprofit organizational performance by examining how three critical governance elements - board composition, funding strategy, and planning and evaluation practices - affect the financial …
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Clients as Voting Board Members: A Mixed Methods Examination of San Diego County Nonprofit Human Services Organizations
<p>The literature suggests that thoughtful board composition generates more strategic and thoughtful policymaking. This study examined one aspect of board composition that is frequently cited as a source of more strategic and thoughtful policymaking: clients as voting members.</p> <p>This study …
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Efficacy of corporate governance on corporate disclosure in developing economies: A comparative study of companies listed on selected stock markets in Sub Saharan Africa
… governance attributes (CEO non-duality, board size, board composition, composition of audit committees, block and director share ownership) and three control variables (Firm size, leverage, and profitability) that may have a significant influence on corporate disclosure. Corporate …
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Corporate Governance and Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study of Rwanda
… considered some of its components such as board size, board composition, non-CEO duality and the supervision of MFIs to assess the performance of MFIs in Rwanda. The researcher used survey methods using a questionnaire, an interview and focus group to gather data to be used for finding out …
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Do Private Universities' Trustees Hold Their Presidents Accountable? A Study of University Performance and Presidential Turnover
… corporate setting. In analyzing the impact of board size and board independence on the performance – turnover relationship, I find these measures of board composition do appear to moderate the relationship. As in the corporate setting, smaller boards appear to be better monitors of the …
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Three Essays on Compensation and the Board of Directors
… higher (lower) CEO pay in other firms of whose boards they are members during the year. Based on my estimates, the director-specific component is responsible for around ±3.5% of total CEO pay or around ±$230,000 per CEO-year on average. In addition to affecting CEO pay levels, the …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
<p>Boards of directors monitor and incentivize CEOs to make decisions that maximize shareholder value; however, research has been inconsistent in identifying the relationship between board composition and monitoring effectiveness (Daily, Johnson, Ellstrand, & Dalton, 1998). Integrating an economic …
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Corporate governance and financial performance: Evidence from the Ghanian banking sector
… a mixed set of results. The findings showed that board size, board composition, bank size and foreign ownership are positively but insignificantly related to profitability in terms of return on asset and return on equity, while board committees have a positive and statistically significant impact …
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