1 The Fundamental Agency Problem and Its Mitigation: Independence, Equity, and the Market for Corporate Control

By D. Dalton, Michael A. Hitt, S. Certo, Catherine M. Dalton. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Boardroom Diversity and its Effect on Social Performance: Conceptualization and Empirical Evidence (2013, background): “Prior studies suggested that the relationship between board diversity and financial performance is equivocal (Dalton et al. 2007), probably”
Ownership as a Form of Corporate Governance (2010, unknown): “Research exploring the governance function of firm owners is still dominated by agency theory (Dalton et al., 2007), which may provide an over-simplified view of the nature of relationships between a wide range of shareholders and managers.”
Corporate Governance in China: A Meta‐Analysis (2018, background): “While the drawbacks of CEO duality have been extensively discussed, there is still a general lack of empirical evidence regarding its net effect not only from emerging economies (Peng et al., 2010), but also from developed economies (Dalton et al., 2007).”
The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs (2017, background): “…that may destroy corporate wealth (e.g., Jensen and Meckling, 1976), and research has focused on when conflicts of interest between managers and owners likely arise and which tools can be used to reduce them (e.g., Shleifer and Vishny, 1997; Dalton et al., 2007; Misangyi and Acharya, 2014).”
Exploring the relation between family involvement and firms' financial performance: A meta-analysis of main and moderator effects (2012, background): “Agency theory is concerned with the degree to which an agent will act in a principal's best interests (e.g., Dalton et al., 2007; Eisenhardt, 1989; Jensen and Meckling, 1976).”
Investor Perceptions of Financial Misconduct: The Heterogeneous Contamination of Bystander Firms (2015, methodology): “Although this proposition runs counter to the conventional agency theory notions of CEO duality, it directly flows from organizational theory (e.g., Dalton et al., 2007; Finkelstein & D’Aveni, 1994).”
CEO Duality, Agency Costs, and Internal Capital Allocation Efficiency (2019, unknown): “…considerable attention from both practitioners and academics (see, for example, Rechner and Dalton, 1989, 1991; Donaldson and Davis, 1991; Daily and Dalton, 1992, 1993; Dalton et al. , 2007; Kim et al. , 2009; Dalton and Dalton, 2011; Krause and Semadeni, 2013; Yang and Zhao, 2014; Krause, 2017).”