What Do Boards Do? Evidence from Board Committee and Director Compensation Data

By Renée B. Adams. 2003

142 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Costs and Benefits of 'Friendly' Boards during Mergers and Acquisitions (2015, unknown): “Perhaps the most important goal is to test the prediction of Adams and Ferreira (2007) and Harris and Raviv (2008) that less independence is advantageous when advisory needs are high.”
• Female directors, board committees and firm performance (2018, unknown): “Whilst the effect on the firm performance of board gender diversity has been extensively researched, recent work highlights the importance of board committees in the functioning of the board (Adams, 2003; Adams, Hermalin and Weisbach, 20010; Guo and Masulis, 2015).”
• What do boards really do? Evidence from minutes of board meetings. (2013, unknown): “Relatedly, Adams (2003) examines the portion of compensation paid to boards of Fortune 500 companies linked to each of the committees.”
• What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading (2010, unknown): “Adams (2003) provides a more detailed description of the characteristics of each committee, and indicates that all of them have a monitoring role as their main duty, with the exception of the executive committee that has a strategic role as well.”
• Audit committee compensation and the demand for monitoring of the financial reporting process (2010, unknown): “While one might argue that these numbers are small in economic magnitude compared to the total wealth of these directors, Adams and Ferreira (2008) present evidence that directors are more likely to attend board meetings when board meeting fees are higher, suggesting that corporate”
• Board Committees, CEO Compensation, and Earnings Management (2009, unknown): “Substituting (1) and (2) into (9) yields:”