[HTML][HTML] Do professional ties enhance board seat prospects of independent directors with tainted reputations?

C Chen, Y Dou, YF Kuang, V Naiker - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
This study shows how professional ties assist directors in gaining future board positions
when their reputation is tainted by accounting fraud. We demonstrate that the influence of …

Bank boards: What has changed since the financial crisis?

S Rajgopal, S Srinivasan, YTF Wong - Available at SSRN 2722175, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate how board oversight of US banks has changed since the 2008 financial
crisis. We review several expert reports that investigated the crisis to identify key board …

Boardroom Network and Corporate Performance: When Who You Know Contributes to What You Know

I Abramova - Available at SSRN 3894533, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines a difficult-to-measure and unobservable concept of information-
sharing between directors. I measure the prominence of the board's information-sharing in …

Why Do Directors Join Poorly Performing Firms?

Y Dou, EJ Zhang - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022 - cambridge.org
Prior research has suggested that sitting on the board of a poorly performing firm (PPF) can
be undesirable to directors. Still, almost 60% of such firms are able to appoint new directors …