Download or read book Three Essays on Corporate Governance of Family Firms written by Tarek El Masri and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays on issues related to the corporate governance of family firms. The first essay explores how owners-managers of family firms conceptualize and define their firms. Understanding the essence of a family firm helps us better understand their governance and behaviour. This essay contributes to the family business literature by presenting the seven most important criteria in identifying a family business (Handler 1989; Shanker & Astrachan 1996), namely: family ownership, control, involvement, succession, long-term vision, founders' legacy, and extended family of employees. The essay also contributes a familiness measurement tool that can be used in future research aiming at better understanding the family firm. The second essay investigates how management control technologies are calibrated in accordance with the sometimes conflicting economic and noneconomic goals resulting from the dual identities of family firms. The results show that family firms calibrate pervasive management control technologies, such as calculative, family-centric or procedural controls to strengthen the business identity and reduce the family identity of their family business. In comparison, the minimal use, or perceived absence, of management control technologies suggest that it accentuates and fosters family identity. Hence, reverting to management control technologies becomes related in a unilateral way to the business identity of the firm, despite the dual control ambition of family firms. The third essay analyzes CEO and TMT compensation practices to identify patterns that can explain the gap between family firms and the pool of external highly qualified executives. The data analysis highlights a connection between the degree of family ownership, the composition of the BOD, and the identity of the CEO. The results also show that family firms rely more heavily on cash-based awards than on equity-based awards as a form of CEO and TMT compensation. Family firms are reluctant to use option-based rewards and the use of share-based awards is also kept at a minimum. Other evidence point towards a role that institutional ownership plays in restructuring the compensation packages of the TMTs at family firms. Keywords: Family Firms, Definition of Family Firms, Family Firm Identity, Management Control Technologies, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation.
Download or read book Three Essays on Family Businesses written by Zulfiquer Ali Haider and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I look at three strategic processes within one of the most prevalent business forms in the world - family firms. In chapter 2, I look at the acquisition process, particularly focusing on deal structure. My findings, supported by data from S&P 500 firms during the period 2003-2014, show that when family firms engage in equity-based transactions, their valuation of the target is affected negatively due to the additional risk of losing. I also find that international acquisitions are more attractive to family firms due to benefits of risk diversification and loose-coupling, thereby increasing deal valuation. Moreover, family firms are willing to pay more to acquire targets operating under better public governance as they perceive lower reputational risk in associating with them. Post-hoc analyses reveal descendant board chairs show a stronger preference for targets with better public governance and ones that are located cross-border. In chapter 3, I look at board processes, focusing on how decisions made by the board of directors in family firms are more likely to be colored by groupthink. Using a sample of firms from the S&P 500, I find that institutional investors, discouraged by groupthink in family firms, invest less in them. However, appropriate corporate governance in the form of greater board diversity, lower director tenure, busier boards, more financial disclosure and bigger shareholder voice can help in alleviating these concerns. I also explore the heterogeneity in family firms that have different generations of family members on board and find that groupthink is likely to be higher in them, but the presence of independent directors can be an alleviating factor. In chapter 4, I look at the long-term decision-making process in family firms. My findings, based on an international sample of listed firms from 2007-2018, show that while family firms may have more long-term oriented values which make them less sensitive to time delays, contextual factors such as economic and non-economic performance hazard and whether the decision-making is controlled by founder or descendant, will influence the expectancy and value of future utilities, thereby moderating the positive impact of long-term oriented values on long-term decision-making.
Download or read book Three Essays on Innovation in Family Firms and Corporate Governance written by Malgorzata Kurak and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta tesis se compone de tres trabajos empíricos, cada uno de los cuales presenta un análisis diferenciado sobre el tema de innovación en las empresas familiares y gobierno corporativo. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar evidencia sobre bajo qué circunstancias, propietarios y gerentes pueden mejorar la innovación de una empresa. El primer artículo estudia cómo el tipo de diferentes propietarios impacta en la innovación de una empresa, explorando también el efecto moderador de las contingencias de poder en esta relación. El segundo artículo se centra en las empresas familiares, e investigamos cómo los directivos no familiares en estas empresas se comportan ante la innovación y cómo los sistemas descentralizados de toma de decisiones pueden moderar su comportamiento. Finalmente, el tercer trabajo examina "la paradoja de la capacidad y la voluntad" en la innovación de las empresas familiares. En este capítulo evaluamos el impacto de la implicación familiar en las capacidades e innovación y ofrecemos recomendaciones útiles a empresas familiares sobre cómo afrontar eficazmente sus desafíos específicos de gobernabilidad mientras siguen siendo innovadoras.
Download or read book 3 Essays on Corporate Governance Firm Value and Startegy written by Joon Mahn Lee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Corporate Governance written by Adam Yore and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility CSR of Entrepreneurial Firms written by Yefeng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a broad management concern, it is not only critical to every aspect of modern business practice, but is also deeply incorporated into a company's daily operations via its values, norms, and decision-making process, etc. While there is an ever-increasing number of studies on CSR, many researchers have treated CSR as one single broad construct, its individual dimensions have been largely neglected. This dissertation takes the opportunity to address CSR by focusing on two dimensions: diversity and governance of three different entrepreneurial entities including clean-technology ventures, family firms in the United States and companies operate in emerging markets. In the first essay, I explore the impact of board diversity, female director representation, to be specific, on venture performance in the context of the clean-tech industry. I posit that appointing female board of directors can help clean-tech ventures overcome legitimacy constraints. I also examine the moderating effect of venture size and environmental ideology, such that this impact is stronger for small firms, and it is stronger for clean-tech ventures operating in a high level of environmental ideology state. In the second essay, I investigate how family involvement influences corporate diversity and how does corporate governance mechanism moderate such effect. The results suggest that family involvement decreases the overall corporate diversity, but family firms present more diversity-related concerns than non-family firms. Meanwhile, I suggest that the adoption of dual-class share decreases family firms' overall diversity. My third essay addresses the question of how corporate governance affect environmental information transparency directly and indirectly through seeking external verification, as well as how the legal and business environment moderates these relationships. I find that companies with strong corporate governance mechanisms are more likely to pursue external verification to alleviate traditional agency conflicts in the emerging markets. In addition, strong internal corporate governance leads to high environmental transparency directly and indirectly via seeking external verification. The legal and business environments moderate these relationships. Overall, these three essays in hopes of filling the gaps in the literature and advance the research in the areas of CSR, corporate governance, and entrepreneurship studies.
Download or read book Three essays on corporate governance written by Cassandra D. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Corporate Governance written by Michael John Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three essays in corporate governance written by Valentina Giulia Bruno and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Corporate Governance written by Trang L. N. Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three Essays in Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance written by Elvis Alexander Hernandez Perdomo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Corporate Governance and Audit Quality Within Family Business Groups written by Wenming Wang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Succession in Family Firms written by Hojong Shin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Role of Corporate Governance in Firms Spending on R D and Controlling Earnings management Practices written by Muḥammad Asʿad and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Empirical Essays on Family Economics and Corporate Governance written by Di Lu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
