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Global corporate governance / edited by Kose John, Anil K. Makhija, Stephen P. Ferris.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in financial economics ; Volume 19.
- Advances in Financial Economics, ; Volume 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporate governance--International cooperation.
- Corporate governance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- Summary:
- Advances in Financial Economics Vol 19 is peer reviewed and focusses on International Corporate Governance.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Global Corporate Governance
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Financial Performance and the Competitive Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Introduction
- Motives for Joining the Children's Food and Beverage Initiative
- Altruism
- Avoid Regulation
- Feel Good Cosmetic Action
- Hurt Competitors
- This Social Responsibility Will also Force the Company to Be More Efficient and Resourceful
- Data and Methodology
- Findings
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Regulation and the Ownership Structure of European Listed Firms
- Sample and Data Description
- Sample Construction
- Measures of Ownership Concentration
- Measures of Regulation and Shareholder Protection
- Firm Characteristics and Further Control Variables
- Ownership Structures of European Listed Firms
- Regulation and Ownership Structures
- Empirical Design
- Shareholder Protection and Overall Ownership Concentration
- Shareholder Protection and Concentration of Different Investor Types
- Strategic versus Institutional Investors
- Differentiating Independent and Grey Institutional Investors
- Robustness Tests
- Sample Selection Issues
- Regulation, Ownership Structure, and Firm Performance
- Empirical Results
- Acknowledgments
- SAMPLE COMPOSITION
- CROSS-CHECK OF TOB OWNERSHIP DATA
- VARIABLE DESCRIPTION
- Ownership Variables
- Other Country Characteristics
- Firm Characteristics
- Determinants of Corporate Leverage in Publicly Listed GCC Companies - Conventional versus Sukuk
- Literature Review
- Conventional Leverage
- Sukuk and Islamic Capital Structure
- Hypotheses
- Data
- Results and Discussions
- Conventional Determinants of Conventional Leverage.
- Determinants of Sukuk Using Conventional Models
- Large Shareholders and Target Returns: International Evidence
- MLS Variables
- Presence of MLS
- Power of MLS
- Role of Family versus Non-Family MLS
- Control Variables
- Univariate Results
- Multivariate Analysis
- Type of second largest shareholder
- Robustness Checks
- Basic Sensitivity Tests
- Country Effects and Investor Protection
- Endogeneity of MLS Structures
- APPENDIX: VARIABLE DEFINITIONS
- A Gender Gap in Executive Cash Compensation in Thailand: A View of the Expectancy Theory
- Expectancy Theory
- Agency Theory
- Stewardship Theory
- Motivation Theory
- Life Cycle Theory
- Results
- A Gender Gap and the Expectancy Theory
- CEO Gender and Firm Characteristics
- The Role of Monitoring and Stewardship in the Expectancy Theory
- CEO Compensation Practices around Spinoffs
- RPE, Asymmetric Pay for Skill/Luck, and Compensation Benchmarking
- Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE)
- Pay for Skill/Luck Asymmetry
- Benchmarking CEO Pay
- Data and Sample Selection
- Data Selection
- Data Characteristics
- Empirical Tests and Results
- RPE
- Compensation Benchmarking
- Robustness
- Conclusions
- APPENDIX A: VARIABLE DEFINITIONS
- Socio-Psychological Motives of Socially Responsible Investors
- Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
- SRI Framework
- The Intention to Maximize Profits
- Altruism as the Concern for the Societal Well-Being
- Need for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
- Strategic Leadership Advantages through Social Status Elevation
- Utility Derived from Transparency and Information Disclosure
- Self-Enhancement through Identification and Self-Consistency
- Expression of Social Values
- Long-Term Considerations
- Discussion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-78635-165-X
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