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A Theory of Board Control and Size
Review of Financial Studies, 2006We extend the traditional view of corporate boards as monitors to include a role for outside board members as suppliers of expertise or information. Indeed, both outsiders and insiders may have private information relevant to the decision. Because of the agency problem between managers and owners (who are assumed to be represented by the outside ...
Milton Harris, Artur Raviv
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Board Independence and Board Size: An Examination of Other Shareholder Constraints
The Journal of Developing Areas, 2021We examine whether large shareholders (other than the largest shareholder) could constrain the influence of the largest shareholder by electing more independent directors to the board. Moreover, we assess whether this constraining ability is related to the size of other large shareholders' ownership position relative to the largest shareholder. Using a
Wang, Fangjun +3 more
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Size and Composition of the Board
2021Chapter 35 of the Stage 2 Key Code and Advanced Handbook examines the size and composition of the board.
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Journal of Management & Governance, 2013
This study seeks to understand the relation between firm size and supervisory board composition. Specifically, we ask if and how firm size influences occupational and international background diversity in supervisory boards. Relying on resource dependence theory and theories of organizational behavior, we hypothesize that board diversity with respect ...
Martin Arnegger +3 more
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This study seeks to understand the relation between firm size and supervisory board composition. Specifically, we ask if and how firm size influences occupational and international background diversity in supervisory boards. Relying on resource dependence theory and theories of organizational behavior, we hypothesize that board diversity with respect ...
Martin Arnegger +3 more
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Board Size and Corporate Failure
1999We 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, 2015One 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 +2 more
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Employee representation and board size in the Nordic countries
European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015Several 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 +2 more
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Determinants of Board Size and Composition: A Theory of Corporate Boards
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2004This paper models the interaction of firm insiders and outsiders on a corporate board and addresses the question of the ideal size and composition the board board. In the model, the board is responsible for monitoring projects and making CEO succession decisions.
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The Council Size and Executive Board Size Effects on Fiscal Policy
2022As part of a spending-review policy at the beginning of the 2010 sovereign debt crisis, the Italian central government progressively reduced the municipal council size and the number of municipal executive board members. This paper exploits these reforms of the local political system as exogenous within-municipality variations in the actual city ...
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Board Size, Firm Risk and Equity Discount
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009AbstractPrior 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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