Universal corporate governance standards: recommendations for the composition of a board of directors

Corporate Governance , Board of Directors , and Firm Performance

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

We examine the role of founders as directors by examining executive compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a nonfounder CEO (founder-director). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEO than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in founder-director firms is al...

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

Research proposal for: Corporate Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Board of Directors in Venezuela

When financial markets are not well developed and when shareholders are not well protected, the role of the board of directors becomes more important as the only available control mechanism for management opportunism. Venezuela is an ideal case study to test this proposition because both of these issues are particularly severe. The specific question that we want to answer is: Does corporate the...