This paper investigates the impact of insider trading and managerial attributes on future stock price crashes. We conduct a series regressions addressing determinants crashes including gender diversity, CEO age, power (measured by pay disparity, tenure duality). Our empirical results reveal positive association between purchases crash risk. implies that other than compensation career concerns, ...

Abstract This study defines and measures the key factors driving export performance of agricultural product firms in Vietnam. It uses both qualitative quantitative research: (i) research is carried out through focus group discussions with 10 chief executive officers (5 rice-exporting 5 coffee-exporting firms) (ii) conducted direct interviews 232 owners or managers (rice-exporting The results sh...

To what extent does the gender of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) matter in relationship between home country corruption and firm exports? Drawing on post-structural feminist institutional theories, we employ self-reported micro-level cross-country data from 4714 firms 75 countries during 2008-2015 to examine how differences contexts affect exports men- women-led firms. We find that pervasive a...

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This report was based on research funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education through a Grant for Enhanced Assessment Instruments that was awarded to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers and its SCASS TILSA and SCASS CAS. Publication of this document shall not be construe...

While many firms today routinely publish sustainability reports, work to increase their energy efficiency and market some part of their products or services to customers who are in some way interested in their environmental performance, there still appears to be a general lack of engagement on the issue of the environment from Chief Executive Officers and members of Boards of Directors. Despite...

This study examines the pre-announcement performance of Canadian takeover targets and measures the relation between performance and the turnover rate of target firm top managers (Chief Executive Officers or Presidents) following the announcements. We find negative correlation between pre-announcement performance and the turnover rate. We find that the pre-announcement performance of targets tha...

The chief executive officers (CEOs) of 96 multisite, U.S.-based hotel owner/operator companies were interviewed and asked to describe the dominant upcoming threats and opportunities they perceived for their segment. Responses converged in describing two major threats (overbuilding and economic downturn) but were far more divergent in descriptions of opportunities. This pattern may emerge from t...