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Performance-Based Turnover on Corporate Boards
SSRN Electronic Journal
2019
Abstract
We document an economically significant relation between director turnover and prior firm performance. This relation manifests in idiosyncratic stock returns consistent with relative performance evaluation and the monitoring of actions attributable to directors. The director turnover-performance sensitivity increases substantially throughout the 2000s, and varies with a number of governance characteristics, most notably with the presence of an active external blockholder. Directors who leave firms following poor performance are significantly less likely to obtain new directorships in the future. In sum, the threat of replacement for poor firm performance has become an increasingly significant incentive for the directors of public corporations
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- Title
- Performance-Based Turnover on Corporate Boards
- Creators
- Thomas W Bates - Arizona State UniversityDavid A Becher - Finance
- Publication Details
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- SSRN
- Resource Type
- Other
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Bennett S. LeBow College of Business; Finance; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991019551686804721