The Determinants of Board Size and Composition: Evidence from the UK
By Paul M. Guest. 2008
328 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management
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In Accounting
- K. Hussainey
- B. Al‐Najjar
- Hany Elzahar
- Chunyan Liu
- Yufeng Yang
- Konari Uchida
- Paul M. Guest
- Collins G. Ntim
In Strategy and Management
- K. Hussainey
- B. Al‐Najjar
- Hany Elzahar
- Chunyan Liu
- Yufeng Yang
- Konari Uchida
- Paul M. Guest
- M. Habbash
Citations in the corpus
- Corporate governance and cash holdings in MENA: Evidence from internal and external governance practices (2017, unknown): “In addition, Guest (2008) detects that independent directors in the UK are not as active as their counterparts in the US.”
- Determinants of narrative risk disclosures in UK interim reports (2012, background): “However, It is argued that UK boards play a much weaker monitoring role as a result of CG soft regulation in the UK which allow firms to choose the board size most appropriate for their own needs (Guest, 2008).”
- The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK (2009, background): “…number of proxies are used to measure complexity and are shown to positively influence board size, including financial leverage (Coles et al., 2008; Guest, 2008; and Linck et al., 2008), firm age (Boone et al., 2007; Coles et al., 2008; Guest, 2008; and Linck et al., 2008), and industrial…”
- Corporate governance, tourism growth and firm performance: Evidence from publicly listed tourism firms in five Middle Eastern countries (2014, background): “Guest (2008) and Vafeas and Theodorou (1998) have reached a similar conclusion.”
- Corporate governance and firm value during the global financial crisis: Evidence from China (2012, background): “Since the Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) Act mandates that the audit committees for the boards of directors of listed companies have a majority of independent members, corporate board 9 structures receive much attention from researchers of late (Boone et al., 2007; Coles et al., 2008; Guest, 2008;).”
- Board Composition and Firm Performance: Evidence from Bangladesh (2010, unknown): “Prior research on board composition mainly focused on firms in advanced economies (Guest, 2008).”