Commanding board of director attention: Investigating how organizational performance and CEO duality affect board members' attention to monitoring

Board Compensation and Risk-Taking: The Moderating Role of CEO Duality (Evidence from Banking Industry)

  The purpose of this paper is to explore relationship between board compensation and risk taking with regard to CEO duality in the banking industry. Using a panel data regression model, with regard to optimal contracting and managerial power theory, we examined the data to determine the relationship between board compensation and risk taking of twenty one banks, for the period 2012 to 2018. R...

The influence of board of director networks and corporate governance on firm performance and CEO compensation

CEO Emotional Intelligence and Board of Directors Efficiency

This article deals with the relationship existing between the emotional aspect and decision-making processes. More specifically, it examines the links between emotional intelligence, decision biases and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms. The primary purposes of this article are to: consider emotional intelligence like new research ideas that make important contributions to society; off...

When attention wanders: how uncontrolled fluctuations in attention affect performance.

No matter how hard subjects concentrate on a task, their minds wander (Raichle et al., 2001; Buckner et al., 2008; Christoff et al., 2009; Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Internal fluctuations cannot be measured behaviorally or from conventional neurophysiological measures, so their effects on performance have been difficult to study. Previously, we measured fluctuations in visual attention u...

CEO Compensation and Board Oversight

In response to the corporate scandals in 2001-2002, the major U.S. exchanges came up with new regulations which are intended to enhance board oversight. We use this regulation event to shed light on the effect of board oversight on CEO compensation. We find that firms that were not complying with these regulations decreased their CEO compensation by between 20%-25% upon compliance, compared to ...