...Zhe Li; Emre Unlu; Julie Wu Purpose Studies on corporate boards examine how social ties between the CEO and independent board members affect the effectiveness of board monitoring. Much evidence suggests that social connections between the CEO and independent directors are associated...

...Guoping Liu; Jerry Sun Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether independent directors' financial expertise affects the use of private information in setting bank chief executive officer (CEO) bonuses. Design/methodology/approach The association between future firm performance...

... – generally acknowledged as the preeminent role of independent directors. Under these circumstances, board interlocking would negatively affect corporate governance leading to reduce efficiency of performance through a dynamic dubbed the “busyness” hypothesis Fich and Shivdasani (2006) . Interlocking...

... expense to sales, asset utilisation and ROA as the dependent variables. Findings – The findings indicate that an increase in independent directors, board member experience and size (measured by total annual sales) reduces agency costs in co-operatives and mutuals in New Zealand. Also, borrowing from...