Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81465 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 823
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct and indirect American influence on the dismissal performance sensitivity among the 250 largest European publicly listed firms. The indirect influence is assumed to materialize via European firms cross-listing on U.S. exchanges, whereas the direct influence is assumed to appear as a result of European firms hiring of American independent board members. Both sources of influence are hypothesized to result in increased dismissal performance sensitivity. The empirical results show a significant increase in the dismissal sensitivity in poorly performing companies with American board membership whereas no significant increase is found from cross-listing in the U.S.
Subjects: 
CEO dismissal
Performance sensitivity
Globalization
Corporate governance
Foreign board membership
Institutional contagion
JEL: 
G15
G18
G32
M14
M16
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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