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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"non-executive directors"”.
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NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS’ SELF-INTEREST: FIDUCIARY DUTIES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The board of directors at a company usually comprises both executive and non-executive directors. Their role is to run and direct the company for its benefit since it is incapable of acting by itself. Where there is a separation of ownership and control it is recognised that there is a risk that …
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Role of non-executive directors in corporate governance in the context of the codes on corporate governance
This thesis investigates the role of the Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) of the listed companies in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the UK. Literature review on general theoretical framework on corporate governance and on the role of NEDs shows that there is a paradoxical compliance, that …
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The role of non-executive directors: concerns regarding the standard of liability for breach of a duty of care and skill
The importance of the role of a non-executive director (‘NED') within a given company has steadily been increasing in recent years particularly as a result of a number of high profile corporate collapses having taken place in many developed countries. In the advent of such collapses, industry …
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Exploring the meaning and experience of coaching in relation to the learning and development of non-executive directors: A grounded theory study
… and structure, the learning and development of non-executive directors has been advocated as a promising avenue for boards to reach higher levels of effectiveness. In fact, however, very little is known about experiences with the learning and development of non-executive directors. In this …
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Mitigating secondary agency problems: examining the impact of share option compensation for non-executive directors on CEO pay incentives and earnings management
… share option compensation for NEDs on monitoring executives. In addition, the study investigates how institutional and blockholder ownership affect the relationship between share option compensation for NEDs and monitoring (to see whether they are substitutes). Both institutional and blockholder …
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Impact of Foreign Directors on Firms’ Corporate Governance, Risk and Performance
… board nationality diversity, focusing on foreign non-executive directors and their relationship with CEO compensation, firm performance, and crash risk for a sample of UK firms from 2002 to 2015. First, we examine the changes in board composition over the years and find an increase in foreign …
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Corporate Governance and Firm Efficiency in The Long-Term Insurance Market in South Africa
… which corrects for biases associated with non-parametric techniques. In the second stage analysis, the truncated bootstrapping regression technique is employed to examine the effect of corporate governance on the estimated efficiency scores. The corporate governance variables used were …
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An investigation into the impact of selection and appointment processes on ned performance in Saudi Arabian-listed companies
… subsequently attributed to the dominant Chief Executive and misleading financial reporting. It appears that some CEOs and chairpersons were dominating those companies and running them as their own by driving the company towards their interest rather than the interest of the shareholders. During …
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Corporate Governance and Firm Financial Performance: The Nigerian Evidence
… negative and significant association between the executive directors’ ownership, non-executive directors’ ownership, institutional and non-institutional blockholders’ ownership respectively and Tobin’s Q. It provides evidence that, except for non-executive directors’ ownership none of other forms …
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The effect of board characteristics on firm financial performance of listed companies in Hong Kong
… characteristics are mainly due to the nature of directors because boards are composed of members with different backgrounds, such as family background, gender, and classification of directors which may affect directors’ roles and responsibilities within a board. Since executive directors are …
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The determinants and consequences of corporate social responsibility disclosure : the case of Jordan
… governance (board size, number of meetings, non-executive directors, female directors in the board, family directors in the board, foreign members, audit committee, type of external auditors, and CEO duality) and ownership structure (government ownership, institutional ownership, and …
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Corporate governance : the effect of Shariah supervisory board on Malaysian financial institutions’ performance
… governance variables are Board size, number of non-executive directors, number of women directors, number of committees, number of board meetings, company age, SSB size, SSB women directors and qualification of the SSB directors. The dependent variable of firm performance is assessed by …
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The Impact of Boards’ Ownership Structure on Voluntary and Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility
… model that relates boards’ ownership structure (executive directors’ ownership, non-executive directors’ ownership and concentrated ownership) to voluntary and mandatory CSR via Corporate Governance (CG) and firm characteristics control variables was developed. The model was tested using a sample …
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An analysis of the perceived effectiveness of remuneration committees in deciding on executive compensation in South African listed companies
This thesis will examine the administration of executive compensation in listed companies in South Africa in order to understand the background to the topical emotion expressed by the public about the quantum of executive earnings. The Thesis attempts to explain how approaches are made to these …
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The independent director and effective corporate governance
… of monitoring by independent, disinterested non-executive directors has been a major cause for the various corporate scandals that we have witnessed'. The first section of this study attempts a comparative analysis of various definitions (taken from corporate governance codes of various …
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The Extent and determinants of greenhouse gas reporting in the United Kingdom.
… governance characteristics (board size, non-executive directors, environmental committee, audit committee, ownership concentration and director ownership) and firm characteristics (company size, profitability, gearing, liquidity and industry); and (3) To investigate whether practitioners …
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The Relationship Between Governance Practices, Audit Quality and Earnings Management: UK Evidence
… expertise and meeting frequency of boards of directors and audit committee) and audit quality. Secondly, the study investigates the effectiveness of corporate governance characteristics and higher quality auditors in constraining earnings management. There are three proxies of audit quality …
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Women at the top: an investigation into the lived experience of women executives holding top posts in the UK
… workplace persistent gender imbalance at top executive levels is a matter of public and political debate in the context of a growing realisation that this phenomenon is not only a social and cultural problem, it is also a business problem. From the perspective of improving business outcomes …
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The effects of different institutional investors and board of director characteristics on corporate social responsibility of public listed companies: the case of Nigeria
… institutional investors and CSR. Also, while the Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) and board size show a positive relationship with CSR, the executive directors and board diversity show a negative and significant relationship with CSR. This thesis not only contributes to the understanding of how BOD …
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND EXTERNAL AUDIT ON CONSTRAINING EARNINGS MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN THE UK
… 2) Audit Committee Effectiveness; 3) Non-Executive Directors’ (NEDs) Commitment; and 4) Ownership Structures. The external audit factors include auditor independence and audit quality. Two models are constructed and a set of hypotheses are stated. These models are tested using a sample …
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