The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between leadership styles of managers in relation to market orientation. Personal characteristics of top managers—age, education, area of specialization, and executive experience—are control variables. This exploratory study focuses on small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Market orientation is defined as ...

We survey non-executive directors in emerging markets to obtain detailed information about the inner workings of corporate boards across a variety institutional settings. document substantial variation structure and conduct as well directors' perceptions local legal environment. Our analysis indicates that who feel adequately empowered by legislation are less likely vote against board proposals...

This study is aimed at investigating the relationship between corporate governance attributes and director’s remuneration in Nigerian quoted firms. Specifically attempted to proffer answers questions as it relates impact of board size, firm independence, chief executive officer duality on directors' remuneration. Secondary data were extracted from financial statements accounts sampled firms for...

PURPOSE Our team surveyed a group of pharmacy directors to learn about their experiences with pharmacy consultants so that the directors might be able to use their consulting resources in a more effective manner. METHODS In May 2012, the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Pharmacy Council Financial Performance Committee developed an electronic survey that collectively measured the chara...

OBJECTIVE To determine the utility of a safe lifting program index and a measure of lift inventory to predict workers' compensation claim frequency and costs in long-term care facilities in 23 states. METHODS Workers' compensation claims and cost data were matched to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-certified facilities (N = 656). Facility safe lifting program index were derive...

This paper develops a model of communication and decision-making in corporate boards. The key element of the paper is that the quality of board communication is endogenous, because it depends on the e¤ort directors put into trying to communicate their information to others. In the model, directors may have biases regarding board decisions and may also be reluctant to disagree with other directo...

This paper studies the optimal design of long-term executive pay plans when boards of directors use accounting information for investment decision-making and executives can take costly actions to manipulate this information. The model predicts that a shift to more convex executive pay plans, such as equity plans that rely more on options and less on stock, is associated with higher levels of ma...

Abstract This paper examines how CEO power and CSR-linked compensation influences environmental performance. We investigate the role of managerial (proxied by duality presence executive directors on board), legitimate tenure), adopting three measures performance, including scores, carbon emission scores a composite index assessing level firm’s engagement in several practices. Analysing sample F...