Do Better-Connected CEOs Innovate More?

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Does the impact of board independence on large bank risks change after the global financial crisis (2017, background): “Initially, we follow Boone et al. (2007), Faleye et al. (2014) and Faleye (2015) among others that deal with reverse causality by regressing the dependent variable on longer lagged values of the potentially endogenous explanatory variables.”
Industry expertise on corporate boards (2017, positive): “…to key industry players, which increases their access to relevant information about the nature of innovation opportunities in the industry (Faleye et al. 2014).2 This combination can enable industry expert directors to provide better oversight of management’s choices in R&D spending and…”
How Do Foreign Institutional Investors Enhance Firm Innovation? (2017, positive): “One example is that CEO network connections facilitate corporate innovation (Faleye, Kovacs, and Venkateswaran (2014)).”