Essays on board of directors composition and firm outcomes
This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk environment as proxied by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and f...
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| Formato: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/687591 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/687591 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Board of directors Junta directiva Firm outcomes Resultados de la empresa 33 |
| Resumo: | This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk environment as proxied by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and finds that those firms that are more affected by the regulatory shock tend to increase their focus on cyber-risk, add more directors with Cyber expertise on the board and assign more frequently the monitoring of cyber-risk to the board as a whole or to a specialized board committee. Chapter 2 instead, introduces the new dimension of board of directors’ skill-sets fit to try to contribute to the empirical literature addressing the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm performance. This chapter shows that those firms presenting a board of directors fit dimension both on its internal and external fit dimensions perform better than their peers. |
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