This paper investigates the impact of female chief executive officers (CEOs) on women’s representation board directors (BoD). As scholars maintain that positive effects exerted by gender diversity firms’ performance depend achievement a critical mass, we focus role CEOs as determinant number appointed women in context family businesses, exploring how persistence stereotypes, along with homosoci...

The aim of this research is to explore the relationship of corporate governance with firm risk. This study establishes a link between corporate governance variables and firm risk for a sample of 106 Pakistani firms over a time of six years (20052010). Based on the estimation results, family control and bank control have negative impact on the firm risk whereas ownership structure and chairman/C...

We examine the contingencies that sway independent non-core directors of S&P500 firms to heed the norms of the corporate elite or the disciplining forces of the efficient directorial labor market in the context of executive entrenchment. We find support for the corporate elite perspective as the number of independent non-core directors is positively associated with an entrenchment index score. ...

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This paper examines the effectiveness of internal corporate governance mechanisms for improving the performance of financial firms in the UK. Using Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) estimates that control for dynamic endogeneity, this study shows that firm performance as measured by Total Shareholder Returns (TSR) and Return on Equity (ROE) is negatively associated with the level of non-comp...

As an important topic in the field of corporate governance, influence board directors’ characteristics on profitability corporations is examined here. This paper examines and chief executive officers’ (CEO) banks Serbia. In this study, boards directors were terms size participation women, CEOs similarly women’s participation. The research was conducted a sample 23 commercial from Serbia period ...

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