This study examined influences on the likelihood that directors of U.S. corporations will receive additional board appointments. We tested hypotheses with original survey data from 760 outside directors at large and medium-sized U.S. firms. Supplementary analyses assessed post-Enron era generalizability. Directors increased their chances of board appointments via provision of advice and informa...

The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of the presence of independent directors on boards of directors. Based on the agency theory, we study the different factors influencing the nomination of independent directors. The tests were applied to a sample of 79 companies belonging to the SBF120 index from 1999 to 2001. Using an OLS data regression framework, the findings show that th...

We examine the association between female participation in strategic decision-making roles and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance using a sample of United States firms from 2001 to 2018. Female is measured using: (i) presence different positions on board directors, such as member, independent chairperson audit committee member; (ii) top management roles, chief executive officer (...

Tosi and Gomez-Mejia, (1989) suggest that the challenge of corporate governance is to set up supervisory and incentive alignment mechanisms that alter the risk and effort orientation of agents to align them with the interests of principals. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of monitoring and incentive contracts given certain characteristics of the firm. That ...

This study empirically examines the association between certain of director of director characteristics and the extent of voluntary audit committee disclosure in annual reports. This study focuses on board of director characteristics because as the audit committee is a major standing committee of the board, it is likely directors will be directly interested and affected by disclosures related t...

The extant literature suggests that complex firms can benefit from independent non-executive director (INED) quality. To address the issue of INED quality, we look at heterogeneity in directors' (INEDs') attributes and explore whether this is related to risk-taking behaviour large banks. We gather novel, hand-collected, director-level data for approximately 2400 directors (INEDs) 185 global ban...

The boards of directors represents the interests of shareholders and shoulder the task of monitoring managements’ actions, protecting shareholder interests, and overseeing the activities of the company. Despite the large stream of academic research on board efficacy there exists a lack of well-developed theory about the interrelationship of attributes that lead to an effective board of director...