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Book Corporate Governance Strengthening Latin American Corporate Governance The Role of Institutional Investors

Download or read book Corporate Governance Strengthening Latin American Corporate Governance The Role of Institutional Investors written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects long-term, in-depth discussion and debate by participants in the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance.

Book Corporate Governance and Organisational Performance

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Organisational Performance written by Naeem Tabassum and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing a corporate governance strategy that promotes the efficient use of organisational resources is instrumental in the economic growth of a country, as well as the successful management of firms. This book reviews existing literature and identifies board structural features as key variables of an effective corporate governance system, establishing a multi-theoretical model that links Board structural characteristics with firm performance. It then, using a comprehensive empirical study of 265 companies listed on the Karachi Stock exchange, tests this conceptual model. This research serves as a significant milestone, reflecting the socio-economic setting of emerging economies, and highlighting the need for the corporate sector in emerging markets to move away from a 'tick-box' culture. It argues that the sector needs to implement corporate governance as a tool to mitigate business risks; appoint and empower non-executive directors to achieve an effective monitoring of management; and establish their own ethical and governance principles, applicable to the Board of Directors. Based on an extensive data base, collected painstakingly over five years, this book offers new insights and conceptual framework for further research in this area. Given the breadth and width of the research, it is a useful source of future reference for students, researchers and policy makers.

Book Pay Without Performance

Download or read book Pay Without Performance written by Lucian A. Bebchuk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives. This book identifies basic problems with our current reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do. Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity and improving corporate performance.

Book Passing the Baton

Download or read book Passing the Baton written by Richard F. Vancil and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Governance Led Corporate Performance

Download or read book Governance Led Corporate Performance written by Apu Manna and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance-Led Corporate Performance explores the corporate governance system for developing economies, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between ownership structure, board composition, director multiplicity and CEO duality in relation to corporate performance.

Book The Relationship of Executive Compensation Structure  Ownership Structure and Control  Boards of Directors Composition  and Firm Performance in the 1990s

Download or read book The Relationship of Executive Compensation Structure Ownership Structure and Control Boards of Directors Composition and Firm Performance in the 1990s written by Laksmi Wanda Muchtar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Control of Corporate Europe

Download or read book The Control of Corporate Europe written by Fabrizio Barca and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of authors, this book provides the first systematic account of the control of corporate Europe based on voting block data disclosed in accordance with the European Union's Large Holdings Directive (88/627/EEC). The study provides detailed information on the voting control of companies listed on the official markets in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and, as a benchmark comparison, the United States. The authors record a high concentration of control of corporations in many European countries with single blockholders frequently controlling more than fifty per cent of corporate votes. In contrast, a majority of UK listed companies have no blockholder owning more than ten per cent of shares, and a majority of US listed companies have no blockholder with more than six per cent of shares. Those chapters devoted to individual countries illustrate how blockholders can use legal devices to leverage their voting power over their cash-flow rights, or how incumbents prevent outsiders from gaining voting control. It is shown that the cultural and linguistic diversity of Europe is (almost) matched by its variety of corporate control arrangements.

Book The Moderating Effect of CEO Power on the Board Compositionfirm Performance Relationship

Download or read book The Moderating Effect of CEO Power on the Board Compositionfirm Performance Relationship written by James G. Combs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior studies of the relationship between the composition of boards of directors and firm performance offer equivocal results. Drawing on agency and power circulation theories, we attempt to reduce this equivocality by asserting that CEO power moderates the relationship. Specifically, an outside director dominated board is needed to check a powerful CEO, but monitoring by other executives provides sufficient constraints on CEOs with low power. We used event study methodology to test the effects of the interaction between board composition and CEO power on stock market reaction to 73 unexpected CEO deaths. We found support for our theorizing among two of three sources of CEO power. Thus, although regulatory trends increasingly support outside director dominated boards, our findings indicate that this may not always benefit shareholders and that CEO power should be considered when constructing boards.

Book Governance  Directors and Boards

Download or read book Governance Directors and Boards written by Mahmoud Ezzamel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume brings together contributions on corporate governance published in various disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance and management. Mahmoud Ezzamel presents a collection of seminal papers that focus on the relationship between boards of directors and corporate governance. Governance, Directors and Boards investigates such important issues as the composition of boards of directors, their key overall roles as mechanisms of governance, the impact of the board on the nature of decision making in contemporary organisations, and the role of the relationship between the board and the determination of executive remuneration.

Book A Study on the Effect of the Mandated Change in Board Composition on Firm Performance   Ceo Compensation

Download or read book A Study on the Effect of the Mandated Change in Board Composition on Firm Performance Ceo Compensation written by Dishant D. Pandya and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I examine the long-run effect of the 2003 mandated change in board composition on firm performance and CEO compensation. In the first essay, I examine the impact of changes in firm performance to shed light on the debate between agency and insider-knowledge theorists. Agency theorists argue that installing an independent board would increase monitoring of management, thereby enhancing firm performance. In contrast, the insider-knowledge hypothesis suggests that an independent board lacks valuable insider information for effective advisory functions and, hence, is detrimental to firm performance. In the second essay, I investigate the effect of the mandate on CEO compensation to shed light on the debate between two agency viewpoints: the managerial power view and the complementarity view. The former suggests that total CEO compensation will decrease to better align CEOs' interests with those of shareholders. The latter argues that total CEO compensation will increase following the mandate to compensate executives for bearing firm-specific risks inherent in performance-based incentive packages. Using a difference-in-difference approach, I find a positive relationship between board independence and firm performance in the first essay, consistent with agency theory. I also find a positive relationship between board independence and CEO compensation in the second essay, along with an increase in pay-for-performance sensitivity, consistent with the complementarity view.

Book Responsible Corporate Governance

Download or read book Responsible Corporate Governance written by Maria Aluchna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the tasks and functions of corporate governance in the light of current challenges and the dynamics that arise from a broader approach to company management and the integration of corporate governance with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. Addressing the corporate governance shortcomings that are believed to have contributed to the recent financial crisis, it explores the interplay between corporate governance and CSR, and includes examples of company practice to show how such changes affect the practices of shareholders, boards of directors and regulators. In particular, the book examines shareholders’ activities, their different investment strategies, specific reporting expectations and the submission of proposals to the annual meeting. Further, for boards of directors it explores the need to revise their tasks with respect to the criteria for executive appointments, their corporate strategy, performance measures and diversity recommendations, while for directors it provides recommendations to reconsider the structure of executive pay and performance incentives. Lastly, for regulators the book investigates the need to introduce new laws addressing, for instance, the need for integrated reporting, limiting the voice of short term oriented shareholders and providing guidelines for executive compensation.

Book Ownership Structure  Board  and Manager Discretion on Performance

Download or read book Ownership Structure Board and Manager Discretion on Performance written by Vincent Ongore and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study investigated the combined effects of ownership structure, board effectiveness and managerial discretion on firm performance using agency theory as an analytical framework. Measures of performance used in the study were Return on Assets, Return on Equity and Dividend Yield. Using Pearson s Product Moment Correlation and Logistic Regression, Step-wise regression and ANOVA to analyze data obtained from companies listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange, the study found out that Ownership Concentration and Government Ownership have significant negative relationships with firm performance. On the other hand, Foreign Ownership, Diffuse Ownership, Corporation Ownership, and Manager Ownership were found to have significant positive relationships with firm performance. The results of this study have indicted the Board of Directors for not playing any meaningful role in corporate governance in Kenya. On the other hand, the results support the need for managers to bear more responsibility of their mismanagement and also share in the residual income of the firms they manage.

Book The Relationship Between Board Composition  Leadership Structure and Firm Performance

Download or read book The Relationship Between Board Composition Leadership Structure and Firm Performance written by Ghulam Abid and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board of directors has been recognized as an important element of the governance mechanism in a firm; particularly after the high profile catastrophes like Enron, Andersen, AOL, Parmalat, WorldCom and many more around the globe; that led to huge economic losses; and ultimately resulting in devastation of financial sectors around the globe. These losses have raised serious concerns regarding governance issues in the corporate sector; particularly questioning the capability of the boards in terms of securing stockholders' wealth. As a result, majority of the corporate governance reforms (codes, practices, regulations, recommendations, etc.) have directly linked corporate governance practices to increased functioning of the board members. This study aims at advancing the global corporate research agenda by collecting fresh evidence from Pakistan. We shall be studying listed companies working under the corporate governance regime in Pakistan; and will be looking at the association between board compositions and firms' performance. The aim of this study is to look at the impact of board composition on two performance measures (return on assets and return on equity) of the firm. Using linear regression on actual sample of 100 listed companies on the Lahore Stock Exchange, Pakistan, we have found that board composition (i.e. independent directors and chairman elected from non-executive director) and leadership structure (CEO duality) significantly related to the firm performance. Furthermore, we found that two accounting measures demonstrate different results.

Book Board Composition  Ownership Structure and Firm Performance

Download or read book Board Composition Ownership Structure and Firm Performance written by Santanu K. Ganguli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper explores the impact of board composition and ownership structure on firm performance of Indian firms from 2009-2013 in presence of certain unique statutory provisions relating to independent directors and limits on ownership concentration. The results show that after controlling for various firm and industry level parameters, both accounting performance and market performance of firms are positively impacted by ownership concentration and board size but not by board independence. We record a two-way relationship and 'non-linearity' between market performance and ownership concentration . Very low and very high concentration negatively impact firm performance, the former being attributable to 'tunneling' , and the latter to 'illiquidity' and 'information asymmetry' associated with sale of holding by insiders to bring down concentration to permissible statutory limits. Larger board size impacting performance positively indicates that plurality of views and representation of various insiders' interest group might enhance performance but Independence has no such role because it may just be a 'myth'

Book FINANCE FOR EXECUTIVES

Download or read book FINANCE FOR EXECUTIVES written by Nuno Fernandes and published by NPVPublishing. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Finance for Executives: A Practical Guide for Managers meets the needs of global executives, both finance as well as non-financial managers. It is a practical and fundamental finance reference book for any manager, as it makes a perfect balance of financial management theory and practice. It focuses on corporate finance concepts from value creation to derivatives, including cost of capital (and WACC), valuation, financing policies, project evaluation, and many other essential finance definitions. Finance for Executives makes finance simple and intuitive, through the use of real world data (brief company case studies and empirical examples of concepts), Excel financial modelling tools, and practical short chapters. Target Audience This finance book is appropriate for business executives, from all backgrounds, seeking to Focus on the links between financial management and the strategy of their company, be it a private or publicly traded company Discover how to create value for their company and boost its financial performance Understand the key topics of corporate finance for non-financial managers Create a cost of capital culture within a company Refresh and broaden their understanding of the latest financial concepts and tools Learn about financial management for decision makers - including financing and dividend policies, company valuation, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), project evaluation, cost of capital (WACC) estimation, or risk management and derivatives Finance for Executives is suited as a finance textbook for corporate finance programs, executive education courses, as well as in MBA, master's, and executive MBA programs. Indeed, the book is based on many years of executive education and consulting with world-class corporations from all continents of the world. What Is This Book About? Finance should be fun, and practical as well. With this book at hand, you will have access to a set of tools that will help you develop your intuition for solving key financial problems, improve your business decisions, and formulate strategies. This finance for managers' reference book is based on Simplicity - The core concepts in corporate finance are simple, and will become intuitively clear after using this book Conciseness - The chapters are short and self-contained to appeal to busy executives who are keen on value-added activities Practical focus - The key concepts of financial management are explained (and linked to Excel modelling tools), while you learn to identify the problems and pitfalls of different managerial choices Application of theory to practice - It highlights key academic research results that are relevant for practitioners Real-world focus - The book includes empirical data on several companies and industries around the world. Working with real-world problems and real-world data is more fruitful than theoretical discussions on formulas Excel Templates An Excel spreadsheet containing all the financial models used in the different chapters is available for download from the book's website. Practitioners will find the file easy to customize to their own requirements. It is useful in a variety of situations: value creation and its decomposition into managerial drivers or key performance indicators (KPIs), cost of capital (WACC) estimation, project evaluation, mergers and acquisitions, company valuation, derivatives valuation, etc. Editorial Reviews An excellent teach-yourself finance primer for non-financial executives, and, I dare say, even for most finance executives. Ravi Kant, Vice Chairman, Tata Motors, India The finance reference book for the desk of ANY manager. Michel Demaré, Chairman of the Board, Syngenta, Switzerland The perfect balance of practice and theory. Geert Bekaert, Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, USA A key tool to improve your business decisions. Thilo Mannhardt, CEO of Ultrapar, Brazil Finance for Executives is easy to follow, and makes a boring subject actually quite exciting. Severin Schwan, CEO, Roche Group, Switzerland A must-have for your list of favorites. José Manuel Campa, Professor of Finance, IESE Business School, Spain