Board vigilance, director experience, and corporate outcomes

By Mark Kroll, Bruce A. Walters, P. Wright. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Management Information Systems

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Owners on Both Sides of the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions and Overlapping Institutional Ownership (2008, neutral): “…19.5 ∗∗∗ Avg shareholder gain ($’000) 38 2991 −228 1770 ∗∗∗ Chi-square test % positive shareholder gains 49.2 41.4 15.7∗∗∗ % positive shareholder returns 48.8 41.8 13.1∗∗∗ †p < 0.10; ∗ p < 0.05; ∗∗ p < 0.01; ∗∗∗ p < 0.001, two-tailed tests. and acquisitions (e.g. Kroll, Walters, and Wright, 2008).”
Is Environmental Governance Substantive or Symbolic? An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “In this respect, governance plays a signiﬁcant role in various investment-related decisions, such as acquisitions (e.g., Cheng 2008), restructurings (e.g., Hoskisson et al. 1994), and the development of innovation (e.g., Kroll et al. 2008; Nickerson and Silverman 2003; Tihanyi et al. 2003).”
Beyond gender diversity: How specific attributes of female directors affect earnings management (2017, background): “Various writers conclude that by acquiring experience, directors improve their advisory skills, which in turn will improve the decision-making ability of the board (Kroll et al., 2008; McDonald et al., 2008).”
When Firms are Desperate to Grow via Acquisition: The Effect of Growth Patterns and Acquisition Experience on Acquisition Premiums (2011, background): “…of desperation for growth and help managers restore their objectivity, because advisors are not subject to the same growth pressures their client managers face when considering an acquisition (Powell, Koput, and Smith-Doerr, 1996; Kroll, Walters, and Wright, 2008; Gulati, Lavie, and Singh, 2009).”