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Determinants Of Financial Restatement : Does The Ceo-Board Relationship And Ceo Compensation Influence The Risk Of Financial Restatement?, Kimberly A.M. Melinsky Jan 2013

Determinants Of Financial Restatement : Does The Ceo-Board Relationship And Ceo Compensation Influence The Risk Of Financial Restatement?, Kimberly A.M. Melinsky

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The cataclysmic business failures of the past decade clearly outline the necessity for effective governance research and policy. These failures have prompted prominent investors, politicians, and researchers to show an ever-increasing interest in corporate fraudulent activity and its relationship to executive compensation packages and the CEO-board relationship. Further research is needed to better understand these relationships, especially the relationship between governance mechanisms and their influence on financial restatement, an outcome of fraud. This study looks to answer that need by examining the CEO-board relationship, as well as CEO compensation components, the combined effects of CEO compensation and CEO-board relationship variables, …


Power In The Corporate Boardroom : Development Of Board Power And Ceo Power Indexes, David Gavin Jan 2010

Power In The Corporate Boardroom : Development Of Board Power And Ceo Power Indexes, David Gavin

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This study focused on the development of two new measures: one of board of director power and one of CEO power. The first goal was to develop a new measure of board power. While there have been many studies on the individual elements of board power, the empirical results have been inconsistent and mixed. The underlying position of this paper is that no single element adequately explains the relationship between board power and outcome variables such as firm financial performance. In this study, the new board power measure was composed of multiple elements and an index was created.