The Effect of Board Size on Underpricing of IPOs:
Indian Evidence
--Rekha Handa and Balwinder Singh
Corporate governance mechanisms are being widely researched for their impact on different measures of corporate performance. Board structure being a dominant means of monitoring and governance for sustaining the competition and improving financial and overall performance, forms an integral part of these mechanisms. The present paper explores the size of the board as a governance method and its relationship with Initial Public Offering (IPO) performance, IPOs being a unique setting to establish the contribution of corporate governance in general and boards in specific. The study investigates specifically board size to explore its independence as a governance mechanism and contribution in explaining the initial returns of an IPO.
© 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Corporate Financial Reporting on the Internet:
A Survey of Websites of Listed Companies in Pakistan
--Zainab Alam and Kashif Rashid
The paper attempts to investigate the current state of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) practices of listed companies on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), Pakistan, after the recent regulatory notification [SRO 25(1)/2012] issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in the financial reporting environment. The authors surveyed a randomly selected sample of 50 companies listed on KSE to ascertain whether the recent regulatory changes have had a significant impact with respect to the financial reporting on their website. Content analysis approach is applied to study the IFR practices using the modified version of the IFR index of Davey and Homkajohn (2004). It is observed that the listed companies, on an average, report 47% significant portion of financial information on their websites. They provide the financial information on the Internet as a complement to their traditional paperbased reports. The amount and quality of IFR practices differ widely and only a few companies are using the technology offered by the Internet. IFR categories of content and user support scores are higher than that of timeliness and technology for websites of the Pakistani listed companies. The research findings are essential as they assist in informing the regulators about the IFR practices of listed companies which satisfy national and international investors’ demand for updated/online information.
© 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Options Are a CEO’s Best Friend:
Executive Compensation in Swedish Listed Corporations
--Sven-Olof YrJÖ Collin, Lina Gustafsson, Emma Petersson and Elin Smith
Ownership influences both the level and composition of executive compensation. The present study examines this by adding identity of the owner and the owner’s capacity to create a governance strategy to the traditional ownership concentration measure. Through a test on Swedish corporations listed as on 2008, it is found that the identity of the owner influences the level of compensation, and the concentration of ownership negatively influences the propensity to use options. This is interpreted as a sign that options are not so much an incentive instrument, aligning the CEO’s interest with the absent owners’ interest, but more of a recruitment instrument and an indication of CEO strength. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
|