Especializacion Agroalimentaria y Diversificacion Industrial en la Argentina: Hacia un Nuevo Paradigma de Insercion en la Economia Mundial (Coleccion Pcu Responde)

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Many studies indicate that a company's stock price decreases when the company adds restrictions regarding corporate governance to its charter or bylaws. The authors of this monograph analyzed the effect of 20 different governance provisions and report that companies with the fewest restrictive provisions in their industries have the best industry-adjusted performance.

The Changing Face of Corporate Ownership: Do Institutional Owners Affect Firm Performance (Financial Sector of the American Economy,)

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The Changing Face of Corporate Ownership: Do Institutional Owners Affect Firm Performance (Financial Sector of the American Economy,)
Michael Rubach
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0815335024

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This book examines the shareholder activism of institutional investors, and the effect of this activism on portfolio performance. By focusing on 118 institutional investors headquartered in the United States, the book is unique in addressing the shareholder activism of a large sample.

Institutional shareholder activism is defined to include both traditional mechanisms of influence (i.e. filing shareholder proposals) and relationship investing. Institutional owners included private and public pension funds, mutual funds, bank trusts, insurance companies, endowments, and foundations. These institutional owners differ substantially, and these differences lead institutions to use their ownership power to pursue different philosophies and actions. Some institutions follow a passive governance policy, While others adopt an activist role.

This book seeks to answer four questions: (1) Are institutional owners actively involved in the strategic affairs of companies in their portfolios? (2)Which formsof activism do institutional owners employ (either confrontational mechanisms, such as filing shareholder proposals, or relationship building mechanisms)? (3)Which forms of activism employed are most effective? and (4) Does the institutional type affect its pursuit of shareholder activism? In answering these questions the author suggests new important results that in many cases are contrary to what prior reports of the activities by a small number of institutional owners may intimate."

Corporate governance and firm performance: is there a relationship?: An article from: Ivey Business Journal Online

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Corporate governance and firm performance: is there a relationship?: An article from: Ivey Business Journal Online
Beth Young
Manufacturer: University of Western Ontario
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This digital document is an article from Ivey Business Journal Online, published by University of Western Ontario on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3008 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Corporate governance and firm performance: is there a relationship?
Author: Beth Young
Publication: Ivey Business Journal Online (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Western Ontario
Volume: 67 Issue: 7 Page: NA(6)

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Corporate governance and performance of small high-tech firms in Sweden

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Corporate governance and performance of small high-tech firms in Sweden
L. Aaboen , P. Lindelof , C. von Koch , and H. Lofsten
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Corporate governance and performance of small high-tech firms in Sweden [An article from: Technovation]

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Corporate governance and performance of small high-tech firms in Sweden [An article from: Technovation]
L. Aaboen , P. Lindelof , C. von Koch , and H. Lofsten
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PA9URY

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This digital document is a journal article from Technovation, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The approach uses data from a sample of 183 small high-tech firms, new technology-based firms (small high-tech firms) in Sweden (54 variables under the headings of work experience, board and advice, financing, motivation-performance priorities, technological innovation and strategy). This study identifies some core areas of importance in corporate governance. Few managers in this study had a strong background and experience of finance and the preparation of business. Only 64 per cent of the managers have had previous work experience before starting the firm. The survey makes it clear that the small high-tech firms are likely to have a strong link with banking institutions. The consequence of these links is that most of the firm's capital supply is from banks, and that there are strong ownership links between banks and industry. The background of the founder does seem to have had an effect on the problem of financing and ownership issues. It is private sector organizations (banks) and families that are most frequently consulted by small high-tech firms (However, low means). It is also the private and public sector organizations, in connection with external board membership, regional development agencies and banks that are most frequently consulted. In the future, it is reasonable to search for factor patterns that can begin to explain and predict the direction of corporate governance in small new technology-based firms.

Corporate governance practices, CEO characteristics and firm performance [An article from: Journal of Corporate Finance]

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Corporate governance practices, CEO characteristics and firm performance [An article from: Journal of Corporate Finance]
J. Nelson
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ASIN: B000RR2GV2

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Corporate Finance, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper examines the link between firm performance, CEO characteristics and changes in corporate governance practices using an unbalanced panel of 1721 firms from 1980 to 1995. This paper provides the stylized facts about corporate governance practices and details how governance practices have evolved over time. By 1995, the majority of firms had implemented differing types of charter amendments, poison pills or other governance provisions that are potentially harmful to shareholders. Most firms have adopted multiple and even redundant governance provisions. Shareholders are more likely to approve an increase in the power of the boards of directors of better performing firms, while the boards of poorly performing firms are much more likely to initiate governance changes, such as poison pills, that circumvent shareholder approval. I find no relationship between CEO age, tenure or compensation and governance changes.

Corporate governance, top executive compensation and firm performance in Japan [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]

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Corporate governance, top executive compensation and firm performance in Japan [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]
S. Basu , L.S. Hwang , T. Mitsudome , and J. Weintrop
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ASIN: B000PDSGYO

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This digital document is a journal article from Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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For 174 large Japanese corporations during 1992-1996, we find that top executive pay is higher in firms with weaker corporate governance mechanisms, controlling for standard economic determinants of pay. We use management ownership and family control (''the ownership mechanisms''), and keiretsu affiliation, the presence of outside directors, and board size (''the monitoring mechanisms'') to measure corporate governance mechanisms. We also find that the excess pay related to ownership and monitoring variables is negatively associated with subsequent accounting performance, consistent with the presence of an agency problem. We do not, however, find an association between this excess pay and subsequent stock returns.

Effect of institutional and firm-specific characteristics on post-privatization performance: Evidence from developed countries [An article from: Journal of Corporate Finance]

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Effect of institutional and firm-specific characteristics on post-privatization performance: Evidence from developed countries [An article from: Journal of Corporate Finance]
J. D'Souza , W. Megginson , and R. Nash
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ASIN: B000RR5X8A

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Corporate Finance, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study adds to the empirical evidence that privatization improves the performance of divested firms and offers preliminary evidence as to why these performance improvements occur. Using a sample of 129 share-issue privatizations from 23 developed (OECD) countries, we first document significant increases in profitability, efficiency, output, and capital expenditure following privatization. Our data indicate that ownership (both private and foreign), degree of economic freedom, and level of capital market development significantly affect post-privatization performance. A comparison to the findings of Boubakri et al. (2005) [Boubakri, N., Cosset, J., Guedmani, O., 2005. Liberalization, corporate governance, and the performance of newly privatized firms. Journal of Corporate Finance (this issue)] suggests that several determinants of post-privatization performance improvements differ between developed and developing countries.

The effects of organizational stability and leadership structure on firm performance.: An article from: Journal of Managerial Issues

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The effects of organizational stability and leadership structure on firm performance.: An article from: Journal of Managerial Issues
Uma V. Sridharan , and Caron H. St. John
Manufacturer: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Managerial Issues, published by Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 6498 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The effects of organizational stability and leadership structure on firm performance.
Author: Uma V. Sridharan
Publication: Journal of Managerial Issues (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Page: 469(1)

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from new panel data [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from new panel data [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]
T. Kato , W. Kim , and J.H. Lee
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ASIN: B000PDSGYE

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This digital document is a journal article from Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Using new panel data for 246 publicly-traded firms in Korea from 1998 to 2001, we find that cash compensation of Korean executives is significantly related to stock market performance and that the magnitude of the pay-performance sensitivity is comparable to that of the U.S. and Japan. Further analysis reveals for the first time that such overall significant executive pay-performance link is driven by non-Chaebol firms and that no such link exists for Chaebol firms. The evidence is consistent with the recent literature on the nature of Chaebols in Korea and the current corporate governance reform efforts in Korea that are aimed mostly at Chaebol firms.

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Can grassroots interest groups ever win the wars they wage in the political arena against big business in America? Praised by some as a crucial component of the democratic system and criticized by others as stubborn, single-issue factions that pose a threat to the equitable progress of political change, interest groups are considered by many detractors to have a success rate directly related to their alliance with wealthy, powerful corporations. As Ronald T. Libby asserts in , viable strategies are available to environmental, food safety, animal rights, gun control, and other organizations that seek to challenge business interests in the political arena. Employing newly released documents culled from five non-business-related alliances with mostly social concerns, known today as "expressive" interest groups, Libby examines how they confront powerful industries. investigates an antibiotechnology campaign aimed at drug companies; an animal rights effort directed against the agricultural industry; an anti-pesticide campaign focused on the chemical industry; a property rights fight against environmental groups; and a secondhand smoke campaign opposing tobacco companies. Drawing upon previously classified files, also draws from interviews with both activists and the industry representatives they oppose.With his balanced analysis, Libby goes beyond the polemical nature of much work on this subject, offering a new avenue for research in the social sciences and a useful tool for interest groups.

U.S. Consumer Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles (Greenwood Reference Volumes on American Public Policy Formation)

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U.S. Consumer Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles (Greenwood Reference Volumes on American Public Policy Formation)
Loree Bykerk , and Ardith Maney
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ASIN: 0313264295

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These in-depth profiles of major non-governmental organizations show how they compete to protect consumer or business interests ranging across all stages of American life from baby foods to funerals. The analyses of 109 interest groups--public interest groups, trade and professional associations, organizations of state and local officials, environmentalists, the elderly, labor, think tanks, and others--portray a wide array of the political tactics that have helped shape consumer policy over the past generation. Drawing upon materials from the organizations themselves, as well as from other original and secondary sources, the profiles depict who the groups represent, their goals, how they were founded, their resources, organization structures and procedures, and the services and benefits that they offer. The profiles also describe specific issues that the groups address, their positions, and their tactics and ways in which they try to affect federal policymaking--from boycotts to group buying, research, testifying before congressional committees, serving on executive department advisory committees, election candidate ratings, filing lawsuits, publicizing research results, becoming media experts on particular subjects, and persuading members to contact a member of Congress. Students, teachers, policymakers, administrators, consumer and business activists and watchdogs will learn through this pioneering new reference who gets what in the marketplace and in politics and why.

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U.S. Consumer Interest Groups
Loree/ Maney, Ardith/ Bykerk, Lo Bykerk
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group 01/1//1995
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5O9IG

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Most of the standard works on the employment systems of Japanese companies deal almost exclusively with men. While the "core" employees of the labor market are mainly men, women constitute the vast majority of the low wage, highly flexible "non-core" work force.

Women and Japanese Management is an original attempt to integrate research on the Japanese employment system with women's equality issues. The author provides a detailed analysis of the position of women in the labor market in contemporary Japan, and explains why Japanese women workers experience more extreme forms of discrimination than their counterparts in the West. She examines the extent to which growing pressure for equal opportunities has caused Japanese companies to adapt their employment and personnel management practices in recent years, with particular emphasis on the 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and its effect on company policies and the career attitudes of women.

Despite recurring propheciesabout the eventual collapse of the Japanese employment system in the face of current social and economic changes, this book argues that the Equal Employment Law has not had the desired effect. Although many Japanese companies have introduced "women utilization programs," these programs enable them to use the best female talents to enhance market competiveness in areas where female consumers dominate, without disrupting the job security and promotion expectations of the core male employees.

Women and Japanese Management clearly demonstrates that the western model of equal opportunity has been rejected by the Japanese government and employers. It is sure to spark international criticism of Japan's failure to comply with the accepted international standards of gender equality.

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