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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"short-termism"”.
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Social Housing: The causes and consequences of short-termism for outsourced maintenance.
… study sought to identify the possible impact of short-term duration contracts on stakeholders engaged in a sector of the FM market place. Its focus is on the trading relationships between private sector “Suppliers” and public sector “Buyers” providing Repairs and Maintenance (R&M) services to the …
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The Causal Effects of Mandatory Quarterly Earnings Guidance on Corporate Information Environment and Corporate Short-Termism
… consistent with alleviated managerial myopia as short-term market pressure eases. These findings highlight the dual-edged nature of the mandatory quarterly earnings guidance and offer insights for both practitioners and policymakers.
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COVID-19 brought the perils of 'short-termism' back to the fore : how will corporate governance respond?
… eye onto corporate governance and its current shortcomings. Shareholders are at the centre of the company and its decision-making which is the consequence of the prevalent & well-established shareholder primacy model of corporate governance. This dissertation strives to establish whether the …
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Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
… responses to the problem of stock market short-termism (‘SMST’). SMST is defined as investors preferring short-term financial returns over potentially more profitable longer-term investment opportunities. Such short-termism may result in serious real-world consequences. Company executives …
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Two Essays on Corporate Finance
… relationship between corporate payout and short-termism. Over the past 30 years, aggregate investment by US public corporations has declined, and corporate payout has increased. These facts are interpreted as evidence that public firms are plagued by short-termism and are foregoing valuable …
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Essays in financial economics
… a theory in which the owners of firms pursue short-termism in project choice to limit managerial rent-seeking behavior. Unlike in previous theories, a short-term bias in investment horizons maximizes firm value in the second-best case, whereas managers themselves prefer long-horizon projects. …
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On the Governance of Innovation: Institutional Ownership vs. Stock Price
… may force their managers to excessively focus on short-term earnings at the expense of R&D and other long-term projects. Thus, I hypothesize that keeping high stock price levels allows firms to (i) limit speculative traders’ influences on stock prices and thus mitigate investor short-termism, and …
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Relatability: the hidden force behind Black African youth employment disadvantage
… Contextual Apathy, Limited Social Imaginary, Short-termism and Homophily. Structurally, it rests on and is enabled by White Intra-Organisational Power Dominance, a Culture of Selective Affirmation, and Unfettered Managerial Discretion.
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'New' police work with offenders? Exploring senior and strategic perspectives
… agencies. The developments sit in tension with short-termism and single-agency thinking, and there is a sense of a predominantly operational-level focus to senior-level thinking and of a ‘retro-fitting’ of legacy police roles to new practice settings. The changes in police work with offenders …
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The Evolution of Hedge Fund Activism: From Corporate Raiders to Sustainability Crusaders?
… and operational changes, rather than the short term financial engineering that activist hedge funds are commonly criticized for engaging in. Second, it builds upon the study of activist board representation campaigns to argue that activist hedge funds may be well positioned to play a …
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‘To be bent without breaking …’: Resilience to Water Scarcity in an Informal Settlement in Lima, Peru
… These constraints resulted in processes of short-termism, loss of trust in their ability to effect change and in individualization, which further limited the capacity for resilience. The study makes a number of contributions to the literatures on (water) scarcity, rapid change and …
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Investors' horizon and stock prices
… prices behaviour. The first chapter examines how short term trading impacts the aggregation of information in financial markets. I develop a model where short-term traders, in an attempt to learn about the average beliefs of future market participants, make the price relatively more noisy. This …
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Cops, councils and crime and disorder : a critical review of three community safety partnerships
… noted the influence of bureaucracy and 'short-termism'. The early 'honeymoon period' where there was relatively little government interference (Phillips et al., 2002) had ended and the partnerships had clearly experienced increasing managerialist pressure, but in spite of this pressure, …
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Two Essays on Executive Compensation
This dissertation consists of two essays, both co-authored with Ugur Lel. The first essay (Chapter 1) examines whether high CEO pay inequality (CPI), the share of total managerial pay captured by the CEO, is an outcome of poor corporate governance, and its implications for shareholder wealth. We …