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Zombie Board: Board Tenure And Firm Performance, Sterling Huang, Gilles Hilary
Zombie Board: Board Tenure And Firm Performance, Sterling Huang, Gilles Hilary
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
We show that board tenure exhibits an inverted U-shaped relation with firm value and accounting performance. The quality of corporate decisions, such as M&A, financial reporting quality, and CEO compensation, also has a quadratic relation with board tenure. Our results are consistent with the interpretation that directors’ on-the-job learning improves firm value up to a threshold, at which point entrenchment dominates and firm performance suffers. To address endogeneity concerns, we use a sample of firms in which an outside director suffered a sudden death, and find that sudden deaths that move board tenure away from (toward) the empirically observed optimum …
Zombie Board: Board Tenure And Firm Performance [Summary Of Paper], Sterling Huang
Zombie Board: Board Tenure And Firm Performance [Summary Of Paper], Sterling Huang
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
In my paper, Zombie Boards: Board Tenure and Firm Performance, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, I empirically investigate how board tenure is related to firm performance and corporate decisions, holding other firm, CEO, and board characteristics constant. I find that board tenure has an inverted U-shaped relation with firm value, and that this curvilinear relation is reflected in M&A performance, financial reporting quality, corporate strategies and innovation, executive compensation, and CEO replacement. The results indicate that, for firms with short-tenured boards, the marginal effect of board learning dominates entrenchment effects, whereas for firms that have long-tenured …