... explore the impact of board-CEO ties in 1,136 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades, spanning a range of institutional environments in developed and developing markets and across a range of market- and accounting-based financial indicators. Findings This paper provides novel global...

... are significant determinants of bank extent of stock repurchases and size. Findings Corporate governance techniques have little impact on market response to bank stock announcements, but are related to some extent to manager decisions regarding the stock repurchase. Board structure and executive/director...