Zombie board: Board tenure and firm performance

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: HUANG, Sterling, HILARY, Gilles
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• الموضوعات: Board tenure; Corporate policies; Entrenchment; Firm value; Learning; Accounting; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1728; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2755/viewcontent/HUANG_et_al_2018_ZombieBoard_JAR_av.pdf

We show that board tenure exhibits an inverted U-shaped relation with firm value and accounting performance. The quality of corporate decisions, such as M&A, financial reporting quality, and CEO compensation, also has a quadratic relation with board tenure. Our results are consistent with the in...