This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors. The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a stakeholder approach to governance. The f...

We examine how sexual harassment accusations against individual executives affect the stock returns of affiliated organization. Taking an upper echelons and abuse power perspective, we identify 372 high-profile accusations, which 98 are relevant to this study. employ event study methodology detect abnormal reactions for As predicted, results indicate that #MeToo substantially harmed organizatio...

This paper examines the link between CEO pay and performance employing a unique, hand-collected panel data set of 390 UK non-financial firms from the FTSE All Share Index for the period 1999-2005. We include both cash (salary and bonus) and equity-based (stock options and long-term incentive plans) components of CEO compensation in our analysis of a dynamic CEO compensation model. Different fro...

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, to hold increases in national health expenditures to no more than long-term economic growth, recommends a set of synergistic provider payment reforms, consumer incentives, and systemwide reforms to confront costs while improving health system performance. This approach could slow spending by a cumulative $2 trillion by 2023—i...

Purpose This paper aims to examine empirically the impact of gender diversity on corporate performance by both comparing different positions occupied female directors boards and their personal-specific characteristics. Design/methodology/approach The examines a sample Italian listed companies during 2006–2015. To deal with endogeneity issues, authors use generalized method moments as an empiric...

This supplement to "The Family Planning Manager" introduces a case study and case discussion questions to illustrate the potential for conflict between a family planning organization's executive director and its board of directors. In this hypothetical scenario, the areas of conflict included the board's refusal to change the noncompetitive staff salary structure, private discussions between a...