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Essays in Corporate Finance and Corporate Innovation
In the first chapter I investigate whether firms grant stock options to rank-and-file employees (RFOs) for retention purposes. I find that it depends on their level of investment in intellectual property. Firms grant more RFOs if they have more knowledge capital, more patents awarded, more …
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Essays in corporate finance and corporate management
… dissertation contains two chapters that study corporate cash holdings and corporate management. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter.Chapter 1 is titled: Easy Come, Easy Go: Cheap Cash and Bad Corporate Decisions. This chapter investigates the relationship between the sources of …
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Corporate governance in the context of corporate restructuring
The purpose of this thesis is to study corporate governance through a holistic approach by reviewing how the interests of shareholders, creditors and employees are protected and constrained throughout the life of a company. The thesis begins with the view that corporate governance is a control …
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Corporate Governance and Corporate Control: Evidence from Trading
<p>In Chapter 1, I document a negative (positive) relationship between changes in large (small) blockholders' ownership and abnormal returns. The evidence in this paper suggests that an increase in the relatively large blockholders' ownership raises the consumption of private benefits while an …
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Corporate litigation, corporate governance restructuring, and executive compensation.
This thesis examines corporate governance consequences within US publicly-listed companies, following encounters with litigation. Corporate litigation can impose significant wealth losses upon the sued companies, giving rise to both agency and reputational incentives to instigate changes. The …
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The role of corporate governance in corporate restructuring
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Corporate Monster
… Mara just might learn to defeat the...</p> <p>CORPORATE MONSTER. </p>
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Corporate governance and corporate performance: Implications for transition economies
This study examines corporate governance modes in different international business systems: the Anglo-Saxon, the Communitarian, and the Asian/emerging business systems. The review of the literature covers the link between corporate governance and the agency problem on the basis that the latter is …
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Two Essays on Competition, Corporate Investments, and Corporate Earnings
… firms is partially mitigated by superior corporate governance that reduces the agency problem, and by certain product market characteristics such as low pricing power and low product differentiation/entry barriers. However, after accounting for all these mitigating factors, the negative …
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The measurement of congruence between corporate identity and corporate reputation
… for the measurement of the congruence between corporate identity and corporate reputation. Subsequently, by conceptualising congruence as matching between groups and as profile deviation, the research tested the significance of the difference between corporate identity and corporate reputation …
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Exploring Legal Implications and Corporate Accountability
… explore and analyse the concept of piercing the corporate veil within the context of South African corporate law. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances in which courts in South Africa may disregard the separate legal personality of a company …
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The corporate problem
Abstract not available.
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Corporate Wellness Programs
<p>This study addresses Workplace Wellness Programs (WWP) in large and small businesses to assess if and how they are effective, what employers perceived about WWP, and what components from a WWP are perceived as best for achieving desired results. In order to address this, 10 large and small …
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Corporate dividend decisions
… also examine the determinants of the amounts of corporate payouts. Profitability, growth rate of total assets, and retained earnings are important positive factors in determining dividend amounts. Market to book ratio have a significantly positive effect on both dividend amounts and the …
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Corporate venture capital
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Forecasting corporate performance
For the past twenty years, the usefulness of accounting information has been emphasized. In 1966 the American Accounting Association in its State of Basic Accounting Theory asserted that usefulness is the primary purpose of external financial reports. In 1978 the State of Financial Accounting …
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Accountability of Corporate Management: Analysing the Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law
… Shareholder primacy is no longer a feasible corporate governance model in the 21st century. The interest of the corporation must include not only shareholder wealth maximization, but also other interests involving the corporation’s expanded liabilities under human rights laws, environmental …
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Economic performance and corporate structure: an analysis of corporate crime causation
… economic performance, relative performance and corporate structure on the frequency of corporate crime. The data utilized in this study were obtained from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and were originally collected by Marshall Clinard and Peter Yeager (1979). …
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Environmental management and corporate social responsibility in corporate organisations - an integrated management system and balanced scorecard framework for corporate sustainability
… investigated environmental management and corporate social responsibilitypractices to identify the implementation and operational problems that organisations face insetting up and operating their systems. The aim was to develop an integrated managementsystem so that corporate organisations …
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