Information Control, Career Concerns and Corporate Governance

By Fenghua Song, Anjan V. Thakor. 2006

214 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Industry expertise on corporate boards (2017, unknown): “Song and Thakor (2006) and”
• Consensus in Diverse Corporate Boards (2009, unknown): “Another relatively unrelated paper is Song and Thakor (2006) , which analyzes how career concerns affect information sharing between the CEO and the board and the CEO’s preferences over board composition.”
• The Labor Market for Directors and Externalities in Corporate Governance (2016, background): “While the board s decision-making process is generally opaque, some recent regulations have increased boardroom transparency.”
• The Diversity of Corporate Board Committees and Financial Performance (2008, background): “5 Westphal and Milton (2000) find that a complicated set of factors impact the probability that minority directors will be marginalized.”
• The costs of intense board monitoring (2011, unknown): “Since independent directors’ advisory role depends critically on information provided by the CEO (Song and Thakor, 2006; Adams and Ferreira, 2007), this can result in poor advising.”
• Can Strong Boards and Trading Their Own Firm’s Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs (2013, background): “24See Adams and Ferreira (2007), Baker and Gompers (2003), Boone, Field, Karpoff, and Raheja (2007), Harris and Raviv (2006), Linck, Netter, and Yang (2008), Raheja (2005), and Song and Thakor (2006).”
• An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance with Moderating Effects of CEO Power and Ownership Structure: A Case Study of the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan (2019, background): “F Song and AV Thakor [116] examined facts about CEO compensation to manage the statistics revealed to the panel.”
• Board structure and survival of new economy IPO firms (2012, unknown): “As information provided by the CEO (Song and Thakor, 2006; Adams and Ferreira, 2007) is crucial to independent directors’ advisory role, intense monitoring can result in poor advising.”
• What do boards really do? Evidence from minutes of board meetings. (2013, unknown): “In particular, it can affect the projects the firm undertakes (e.g., Song and Thakor, 2006) or the scale of investments it chooses (Harris and Raviv, 2008).”