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Showing 1 to 20 of 655 for “"corporate governance"”.
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Towards good corporate governance: an analysis of corporate governance reforms in Uganda
The recent onslaught of corporate scandals has compelled the world to acknowledge the profound impact of corporate governance practices on the global economy. Corporate governance has become important for the survival of companies and indeed of national economies in the increasingly global economy. …
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Essays on Corporate Governance
… widespread and robust evidence on the impact of corporate governance. Ownership structure and management characteristics are among the center of the debate. Empirical studies report conflicting evidence regarding the information environment of public family-controlled firms. We use staggered …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
… chapters that converge upon the central theme of corporate governance. In the first chapter, we investigate CEO narcissism’s effect on firms’ debt costs. Although this managerial personality trait benefits shareholders, we find that firms face higher debt financing costs as CEO narcissism …
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Essays In Corporate Governance
<p>Corporate governance represents the collection of ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. This dissertation first reviews the various corporate governance mechanisms that have been extensively studied in prior research. Then, …
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Essays in Corporate Governance
In the first chapter ("Governance by Litigation") I study the role of shareholder litigation rights in corporate governance. To empirically identify the effects of shareholder lawsuits, I use the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws in 23 states between 1989 and 2005. These laws impose …
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Voluntary corporate governance disclosures and corporate governance mechanism among listed property companies in Malaysia
Voluntary corporate governance disclosures are the additional information regarding corporate governance mechanism which increases investor’s confidence while making sound investment decisions. On the other hand, corporate governance is considered as a significant mechanism for controlling and …
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Communitarian perspectives on corporate governance
Research into corporate governance is currently oriented towards understanding how governors control the governed through contractual relationships, economic decision making and control over cultural values. These theories, however, were unable to provide satisfactory explanations for the empirical …
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Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
… lived experience of ethics in their task of corporate governance so as to capture some of the multiple facets of this phenomenon: specifically how directors understand the role of ethics in their task of corporate governance and how they understand and practise ethics. The focus of the …
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Corporate Governance and Institutional Trading
… preventive effect of hedge fund activism against corporate policy deviations. Using stock liquidity and mutual fund fire sales as instruments, I find that when the likelihood of hedge fund activism increases, firms respond by paying shareholder more and CEOs less, holding less cash and leveraging …
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Corporate governance in the NHS
Corporate Governance - which is concerned with the management and direction of organizations at the very highest level - has grown in importance in the private sector, from where the concept largely derives, as a result mainly of malpractice. As a consequence, interest in the topic has grown …
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Corporate governance and insider trading
I investigate the relation between corporate governance and insider trading by corporate executives. Despite the general view that trade on non-public information adversely affects capital market participants, the impact of corporate governance on such trading remains relatively unexplored in prior …
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Two Essays on Corporate Governance
… and monitoring roles academic directors play in corporate innovation. The second essay finds that pre-existing professional ties with a firm's board significantly increase a CEO candidate's probability of being hired by the firm. Considering all CEOs hired this year as potential candidates, a …
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Hedgefonds in Deutschland und die Auswirkungen auf Corporate Governance im Sinne des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex
… what implications hedge funds have on the corporate governance in accordance with the German Corporate Governance Code (GCGC) of listed companies in Germany. By using an extensive hand-collected data set of more than 200 potential target companies across the four major German stock indices, …
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Life Cycle, Divestment and Corporate Governance
… from three points of view: shareholder wealth; corporate governance, and the life cycle. While the growth factor is important for most firms, most previous divestment research appears not to have given enough emphasis to the growth variable. This research emphasises the importance of the growth …
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Essays on corporate governance and finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Role of non-executive directors in corporate governance in the context of the codes on corporate governance
… review on general theoretical framework on corporate governance and on the role of NEDs shows that there is a paradoxical compliance, that is the implementation of the statutory and non-statutory codes on corporate governance to minimise the corporate governance problems such as exploitation …
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