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Board Size and Corporate Failure

1999
We discussed earlier whether it was possible — with our current state of knowledge — to identify the major determinants of corporate performance. In particular, the following question is often posed: ‘Given two companies belonging to the same industrial sector and operating in the same environment, what makes one more successful than the other?’ The ...
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Earnings Informativeness, Board Size, Board Composition and Board Leadership Structure

Advanced Science Letters, 2015
One of the functions of board of directors is to monitor the quality of financial reporting.Therefore, it is important to understand whether board of director characteristics influence the quality of financial reporting.This paper examines whether earnings informativeness varies with board size, board composition and board leadership structure.
Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain, Amran, Noor Afza, Ishak, Rokiah   +2 more
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Employee representation and board size in the Nordic countries

European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015
Several European countries have mandatory employee representation on company boards, but the consequences for corporate governance are debated. We use employee representation rules in the otherwise quite similar Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) to elicit information on shareholder preferences for employee representation and board
Thomsen, Steen, Rose, Caspar, Kronborg, Dorte   +2 more
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Determinants of Board Size and Composition: A Theory of Corporate Boards

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
AbstractThis paper models the interaction of firm insiders and outsiders on a corporate board and addresses the question of the board's ideal size and composition. In the model, the board is responsible for monitoring projects and making CEO succession decisions.
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Board Size, Firm Risk and Equity Discount

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
AbstractPrior literature documents that larger boards pursue conservative investment policies and that their decision outcomes are moderate, which promote an environment of risk aversion. I argue that this risk aversion hurts equity holders when firms hold a larger amount of long‐term debt.
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Impact of Board Size, Board Independence, Foreign Ownership, Bank Size and Leverage on Bank Performance in Nepal

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This study examines the relationship between the corporate governance and bank performance in Nepal. The performance of the banks is analyzed through return on asset (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). The data set is obtained from annual reports for the year 2007/08-2011/12.
Jagadish Prasad Bist, Season Basant Ghimire, Bal Kumar Dhimal, Kabindra Pokharel, Biraj Singh   +4 more
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Complexity of checkers and draughts on different board sizes

ICGA Journal, 2019
Estimates for the complexity of checkers and draughts on different board sizes are calculated and experimentally determined. The estimates found for international draughts are a correction of previous estimates in the literature. The estimates found for the other board sizes are first estimates, with the exception of 8 × 8 checkers, which is used as a ...
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Board Size and Firm Complexity

Optimal board size is a fundamental question in corporate governance with prior research linking board size to firm complexity, typically measured using coarse proxies. We introduce a text-based approach that applies a complexity lexicon to firms’ annual reports, allowing us to differentiate complexity along distinct dimensions.
Tim Loughran, Bill McDonald, Jun Yang
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Board of Directors' Size and Performance in the Banking Industry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the relationship between board size and performance in a sample of 174 bank and savings‐and‐loan holding companies, over the period 1995‐2002.Design/methodology/approachIn order to examine the relationship between board of directors' size and performance in the banking industry, the paper uses various statistical ...
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The size and composition of corporate boards in Japan

Asian Business & Management, 2012
We analyse the structure of corporate boards in Japan to determine whether they are matched to each firm's specific needs. Consistent with US findings, our results show that board size is positively related to firm size and firm complexity, and negatively related to monitoring costs.
Hiroyuki Aman, Pascal Nguyen
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