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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"independent director"”.
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The independent director and effective corporate governance
… initiatives has been the emergence of the 'independent director'. The introduction of this concept of independent director is at the heart and soul of corporate governance. Although the relevance or otherwise of this class of director to corporate success has been the subject of robust …
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The role of the independent director in maintaining good corporate governance
The role of the independent director is not clearly defined in most legislation around the globe. Hence, a company, through its Articles of Association or Memorandum of Incorporation, may attach any role it wishes the director to carry out. Most companies seem to entrust the independent director …
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New Sheriff in Town: Antecedents and Consequences of Effective Lead Independent Directors
… new form of board leadership structure, the Lead Independent Director (LID), that has not received much attention in the corporate governance literature. This role was adopted in 2003 by most large US firms as a result of stock exchange mandates and pressure from institutional investors. From an …
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Studies on independent directors and corporate governance reforms in Taiwan
Taiwan introduced the institution of independent directors in early 2000s in order to deal with the ill-designed internal governance system in its Company Act. Although such an institution has long been advocated as a good governance practice by the U.S corporate conventional wisdom, how it would …
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Essays On Mutual Fund Governance And The Advisory Fee Contracts
… relation between general board characteristics, independent director characteristics and the advisory fee which is solely an outcome of the negotiations between the fund board and the adviser, thus a good proxy for the governance skills of the board. I also examine the impact of SEC's regulation …
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Corporate governance and financial distress prediction in the UK.
… However, the board size, the proportion of independent directors, board member financial expertise, and audit committee size are significantly but positively related to firms’ financial distress. In terms of the ownership structure variables, the directors’ ownership, institutional …