The effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms: ownership and media

My dissertation investigates how multiple corporate governance mechanisms act not only for shareholders’ interests, but also protects the interests of divergent constituents across different institutional environments and times. The extant literature has typically viewed corporate governance as solving a principal–agent problem between shareholders and management. But useful insights about corporate governance must inevitably have a broader scope, encompassing such complex matters as heterogeneous owners with different institutional logics and intertwined internal/external governance mechanisms. The first study examines the ways in which managers respond to the different institutional logics of corporate governance represented by different owners in Japanese corporations through managerial earnings forecasts. The second study discusses how inter-organizational embeddedness between corporations and the media influences the media’s external governance role. These studies collectively explore how evolving and intertwined interests and demands of different constituents in institutional environments give rise to governance arrangements, not in a universal sense, but rather specifically for the individual firm and the context in which it is situated.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2017

Author dc:creator

• Lee, Jun Ho

Contributors dc:contributor

• Leblebici, Huseyin
• Aguilera, Ruth
• Bednar, Michael
• Loewenstein, Jeffrey

• Corporate Governance
• Ownership
• Media

Statement dc:rights

• © 2016 Jun Ho Lee

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/95502

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/95502