Journalartikel

What motivates independent directors to join or leave boards? The interplay between director incentives, director decisions, and firm outcomes


AutorenlisteEwelt-Knauer, Corinna; Gerstel, Hannes; Khaled, Mohamed A.; Wöhrmann, Arnt

Jahr der Veröffentlichung2024

Seiten2282-2303

ZeitschriftManagerial and Decision Economics

Bandnummer45

Heftnummer4

ISSN0143-6570

eISSN1099-1468

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4125

VerlagWiley


Abstract

Reputation, monetary, risk, and workload incentives affect independent directors' decisions to join new or leave existing board of directors' seats, impacting their directorship portfolios. Using a director's perspective and relative incentive proxies, we find that directors strategically relinquish less prestigious board seats to increase their reputation. Similarly, we hypothesize and find that accepting an additional board nomination is incentivized by a director's goal to achieve higher reputation growth. Lastly, by taking on a firm's perspective, we find a positive association between the board's aggregated portfolio reputation and risk propensity with firm performance and earnings management.




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Zitierstile

Harvard-ZitierstilEwelt-Knauer, C., Gerstel, H., Khaled, M. and Wöhrmann, A. (2024) What motivates independent directors to join or leave boards? The interplay between director incentives, director decisions, and firm outcomes, Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(4), pp. 2282-2303. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4125

APA-ZitierstilEwelt-Knauer, C., Gerstel, H., Khaled, M., & Wöhrmann, A. (2024). What motivates independent directors to join or leave boards? The interplay between director incentives, director decisions, and firm outcomes. Managerial and Decision Economics. 45(4), 2282-2303. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4125


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