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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"large shareholders"”.
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An Examination of the Relationship between Large Shareholders and Commitment Human Resource Systems
… firms appear reluctant to use these HR systems. Large shareholders such as institutional investors and founding family owners have been found to influence the strategic decision making of the firm, yet they have been largely absent from the strategic human resource management literature. This is …
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Essays In Corporate Governance
… the presence of multiple blockholders beyond the largest owner and the external monitoring by high-quality auditors. Additionally, I investigate how a country's legal institutions interact with these mechanisms.</p> <p> In the first essay, I investigate the impact of multiple large shareholders on …
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Strategic Shareholders and IPO Disclosure: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital
… capitalists (CVC) to examine the effect of shareholders’ strategic incentives on firms’ IPO disclosure. CVCs’ investments are often driven by both financial and strategic incentives. I argue that, due to their strategic incentives, CVCs may influence their portfolio firms’ disclosure choices …
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Expectations gaps in the roles of independent directors: evidence from Saudi Arabia
… to ensure managers perform to safeguard their shareholders’ interests, this thesis focuses on the extent to which they fulfil their expected roles and the factors that influence their performance in this regard. The thesis more particularly investigates the existence of expectations gaps in the …
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CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL STRUCTURES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM CONTROL POTENTIAL, AGENCY, AND CONTROL DOMINANCE-CONTESTABILITY PERSPECTIVES ON UK LISTED FIRMS
… that the second-type agency conflicts between large shareholders and minority shareholders exists, and that might be the dominant force that determines the possible control configuration even in listed firms with dispersed ownership. Thirdly and finally, the traditional one-equation modelling …
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Principal-principal conflicts in Asean 5 mergers and acquisitions
… well beyond. According to prior research, large controlling shareholders in Asian public listed companies do cause agency conflicts (Becht, Franks, Mayer, & Rossi, 2010; Burkart & Lee, 2008; Claessens, Djankov, Fan, & Lang, 2002). However, the net effect cannot be estimated with any degree …
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The corporate governance structure and corporate performance: empirical studies of China's listed real estate companies
… increasing the number of shares owned by other large shareholders will change the board size and improve the monitoring function of the board. The third conclusion is that the agency costs rooted in the separation of ownership and management are related with ownership structure. The largest …
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Corporate governance structures and financial performance: A comparative study of publicly listed companies in Singapore and Vietnam
… regarding the efficient monitoring effect of large shareholders in markets with highly concentrated ownership. For the Vietnamese market, the results show that board gender diversity has a positive effect on firm performance. Remaining robust even after the alternative proxies for gender …