Dissertation (PhD) Florida State University, 2007. / Advisor: Kevin Fenton, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 8-29-2007). Document formatted into pages; contains 151 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.

Theses (Ed. D.)--Marshall University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Includes vitae. Document formatted into pages: contains viii, 132 pages. Bibliography: p. 96-107.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 24). Also available via the Internet.

abstract: This dissertation integrates research on boards of directors with human and social capital perspectives to examine board appointments. A director's appointment to a board is in part due to the belief that the individual can contribute critical resources and monitoring to the organization. The ability of a director to provide these resources and monitoring depends on his or her level of human and social capital. This dissertation more fully integrates human and social capital perspectives into our understanding of board appointment events. From these theoretical underpinnings, a model is developed proposing that several human and social capital indicators, including educational level, expertise, director experience, and access to network structural holes, affect the likelihood of joining a new board, joining a prestigious board, and exiting a current board. I also consider a number of contextual- and individual-level variables that may potentially moderate the relationship between a director's human and social capital and director mobility. Through this dissertation, I make a number of contributions to the literatures on boards, board appointments, and human and social capital. First, I offer a more comprehensive perspective of the board appointment process by developing an individual-level perspective of board appointments. Second, I contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the market for corporate directors. Third, I focus on several salient dimensions of director mobility. Fourth, I contribute to the growing literature on human and social capital at the board and director levels. Finally, I add to the growing literature on director selection. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Business Administration 2011

Company law in Pakistan does not recognise shareholders’ right of derivative action. This situation raises the question as to what extent derivative action, if recognised under the company law in Pakistan, can promote good corporate governance and contribute to reinforce enforcement powers of shareholders as to safeguarding their rights? The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, this thesis argues that an effective derivative action system could act as a means of disciplining corporate management in Pakistan. Second, it presents it argumentations that other legal and extra-legal managerial disciplinary mechanisms have limitations of their own that support the introduction of a statutory derivative action system in Pakistan. The methodologies used in this thesis are doctrinal, historical, case study, comparative and semi-structured interviews. Doctrinal analysis has been employed when analysing statutes and case law. Case study methodology has been used to exemplify problems of directorial misconduct and providing empirical evidence for carrying out further analysis. A comparative approach has been utilized for which the UK has been chosen for comparative purposes to identify lessons that Pakistan can learn from the UK derivative action system while finding ways for effective use of derivative action system in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews are aimed at providing an evaluation of the reform proposals. This study contributes to the subject of derivative action in three key ways. First, it provides an in-depth examination of the regulatory framework pertaining to shareholder protection in Pakistan in order to highlight the inherent challenges presented by un-updated legal framework. Second, based on the findings from this thesis, reform proposals are made as to codifying derivative actions, clarifying the procedural route for derivative proceedings and providing a funding mechanism to attract shareholders to bring derivative actions to enforce corporate rights. Third, suggestions proposed in this thesis are supported by both the opinions of the interviewees and original research on judicial experience of other jurisdictions, particularly the UK. The findings made in this study and proposals have implications for law reforms and are expected to inform practitioners, academics, legislators and policy makers on the way forward in reforming shareholder protection in Pakistan. Thus, this thesis would inform reforms in the company law in order to strengthen the enforcement power of shareholders and ensure corporate accountability in Pakistan.

Cette thèse de doctorat comprend trois essais portant sur plusieurs sujets dans le domaine de la finance d'entreprise empirique. L'essai 1 étudie l'avantage informationnel des administrateurs indépendants ayant une expertise de l'industrie par rapport aux administrateurs indépendants sans cette expertise. Pour le faire, je regarde les bénéfices des transactions dites « d'initiés » réalisés par des administrateurs indépendants. Je trouve que les administrateurs indépendants possédant une expertise sectorielle obtiennent des bénéfices significativement plus élevés que les administrateurs indépendants sans ladite expertise. De plus, une augmentation de la proportion d'administrateurs indépendants possédant une expertise sectorielle pertinente au sein du conseil est associée à une meilleure performance de l'alliance, à une plus grande probabilité d'accomplissement des opérations de fusions et acquisitions et à une sensibilité moindre des investissements faites par l’entreprise aux prix de marché. Les résultats dans son ensemble suggèrent que les administrateurs experts de l'industrie ont une connaissance supérieure de l'entreprise et pourraient améliorer l'efficacité du conseil d’administration dans l'exercice de ses fonctions de surveillance et de conseil. L'essai 2 étudie l'effet préjudiciable de l'activité de vente à découvert sur les relations entre clients et fournisseurs. Nous montrons que le montant de ventes à découvert des actions d'un fournisseur est positivement associé à une probabilité plus élevée qu'un client important du fournisseur mette fin à la relation commerciale entre les deux. Une telle interruption peut être partiellement prévenue par la présence de détenteurs de « blocs » d’actions dans l'entreprise du fournisseur, particulièrement si ces détenteurs ont une orientation à long terme. Nos résultats sont conformes à l'hypothèse selon laquelle les vendeurs à découvert peuvent perturber les relations d'une entreprise avec des contreparties commerciales grâce à l'effet dit de « rétroaction », c’est-à-dire, le fait que les prix de marché affectent les décisions de l’entreprise. Par contre la présence de détenteurs de « blocs » constitue un mécanisme efficace pour contrer cette perturbation. L'essai 3 examine les raisons possibles du taux croissant d'annonces d'offres d’acquisition « groupées », dans lequel le management de l’acquéreur annonce une acquisition imminente le jour même où l’acquéreur déclare ses résultats trimestriels au marché. Cette pratique semble étrange étant donné que les offres groupées présentent des rendements d'annonce des acquéreurs nettement inférieurs, quel que soit le statut de la cible. Nos résultats pointent vers l'hypothèse de « révélation stratégique d’information » comme la raison la plus probable pour laquelle les entreprises choisissent de regrouper les annonces d'acquisition et les annonces de bénéfices. Ces acquéreurs, confrontés à des faibles bénéfices, dirigés par des PDG récemment nommés, et dans une situation où les analystes les contestent et où l'incertitude est grande, utilisent les annonces groupées comme un outil pour influencer la réception du marché sur leur performance. / This doctoral thesis includes three essays investigating several topics in the area of empirical corporate finance. Essay 1 studies the informational advantage of independent directors with industry expertise over independent directors without such expertise. To do so, I look at insider trading returns earned by independent directors. I find that independent directors with industry expertise earn significantly higher insider trading returns than do independent directors without such expertise. Moreover, an increase in the proportion of independent directors with relevant industry expertise on the board is associated with better alliance performance, a higher probability of M&A deal completion, and a lower investment-to-price sensitivity. Overall, the results suggest that industry expert directors have superior knowledge about the firm and could enhance board effectiveness in performing both monitoring and advisory roles. Essay 2 studies the detrimental effect of short selling activity on product market relationships. We show that higher supplier’s short interest is associated with a higher likelihood that a major client of the supplier terminates an existing relationship. Such interruption can be partially prevented by the presence of long-term blockholders in the supplier firm. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that short sellers can disrupt a firm’s relationships with business counterparties through the feedback effect, but informed block ownership serves as an effective mechanism to counteract this disruption. Essay 3 investigates possible explanations for the increasing rate of “bundled” bid announcements, in which managers of the bidder announce an impending acquisition on the same day that the bidder reports its quarterly earnings to the market. This practice seems puzzling given that bundled bids exhibit significantly lower bidder announcement returns regardless of the target status. Our results point towards the strategic disclosure hypothesis as the most likely reason why firms choose to bundle acquisition and earnings announcements. Confronted with low earnings news, led by recently-nominated CEOs, in a situation in which they are challenged by analysts and uncertainty is high, bidders use bundled announcements as a tool to influence the market’s reception to the earnings.

Since the mid-2000s, there has been a significant increase in female directors in Japan. Organized around the central feature of this emerging wave, this dissertation is a multifaceted project that combines historical research with reception studies, industry studies, gender studies, and formal analysis of films and marketing paratexts. In exploring the connections between film production, reception, exhibition, and auteur personas, I argue that the recent emergence of women into commercial cinema is fueled by gendered marketing tactics that seek to target contemporary female consumers. This focused gendering of auteur, product, exhibition space, and presumed spectator is changing the landscape of cinema in Japan, a process some refer to as "feminization." My dissertation rethinks the history of Japanese cinema with regards to the relationship between filmmakers as gendered bodies, distribution companies and marketing as patriarchal power structures, and the capital wielding demographic of female spectators as influential, but often neglected, consumers. / 2015-07-11

Prior studies document that board directors who fail to act as effective monitors of management are penalized by the labor market in the form of fewer subsequent board seats. However, there is little evidence on how the market rewards directors for exceptional advising and monitoring on corporate boards. In this paper, I use national director awards as a positive shock to directors’ reputations and examine changes in board seats for award-winning directors. Award-winning directors gain more board seats than non-winning directors, both after and before the awards. Event study tests suggest that the quality of award-winning directors may have been revealed to the labor market before the awards but not to the broader stock market. Stock market reactions to appointments of award-winning directors are positive and statistically significant only after the awards, not before.

BRANCO, Noemi Nascimento. O desafio de avaliar políticas públicas: conhecer, julgar, "publicizar" e aprimorar. 2005. 173f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas, Fortaleza (CE), 2005. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-10T15:53:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005-DIS-NNBRANCO.pdf: 10918138 bytes, checksum: 50805c6860c42eff01e5fd495f6d680a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-10T15:57:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005-DIS-NNBRANCO.pdf: 10918138 bytes, checksum: 50805c6860c42eff01e5fd495f6d680a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-10T15:57:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005-DIS-NNBRANCO.pdf: 10918138 bytes, checksum: 50805c6860c42eff01e5fd495f6d680a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / This presente research investigate if the head teachers election process have been mading with the participation of the school segments – parents, students, teachers and employees in day-today decisions of the education action, in objective of democracy of the management. This discussion is important for us in the sense that, how the head teachers election has been happen, since 1995 in the Ceará State, and the sametime, if it is possible to see how the school central actors had worked on the participation question. In the methodology we made bibliographyc and local research and in that time, we applied questionnaire and we made interview with teachers, students, employees, parents and members of the management nucleus of two state public schools: São Paulo school and São Caetano school: the results shows that, although they accept and they think that the election process of head teachers is positive, theirs participation in the schools direction is not full yet, because they don’t know how the education process happens; or because they don’t have interest on the school direction, because they don’t feel like participating in the education process; or because they are not envolved. The results make us to re-direction the participation practice, in the sence of make real the collective make in the school activities, that impose beliefs and values changes, understanding the participation in a view of consolidation and realization of the democratic management, that goes over of the head teachers choise by direct elections. / A presente pesquisa investiga se o processo eletivo de diretores escolares tem propiciado a participação dos segmentos escolares - pais, alunos, professores e funcionários, nas decisões cotidianas da ação educativa, objetivando a democratização da gestão. Esta discussão é importante no sentido de visualizarmos como tem ocorrido o processo de eleição de diretores escolares, desde 1995 no estado do Ceará, ao mesmo tempo, que permite perceber como os seus atores centrais na escola têm trabalhado a questão da participação. A metodologia adotada foi pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo, com aplicação de questionários e realização de entrevistas com professores, alunos, funcionários, pais e membros do Núcleo Gestor de duas escolas públicas da rede estadual de ensino: Escola do Ensino Fundamental e Médio - EEFM São Paulo e EEFM São Caetano. Os resultados demonstram que, embora os entrevistados aceitem e achem positivo o processo de eleições para diretores escolares, a participação de todos nos rumos da escola ainda não se concretiza plenamente: porque desconhecem como se dá o processo educativo; ou por falta de interesse pelos rumos da escola; por não se sentirem co-participes da ação de educar; ou, ainda, porque não lhes é dada à oportunidade de se envolverem. Os resultados da pesquisa nos remetem para o redirecionamento das práticas de participação, no sentido de propiciar a vivência do fazer coletivo nas atividades desenvolvidas na escola, que impõem mudanças de crenças e valores, entendendo a participação na perspectiva de consolidação e realização da democracia, que vai além da escolha dos diretores escolares por meio de eleições diretas.