Long-Term Value Creation in Corporate Governance: The Crucial Role for Boards and Auditors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Crucial Role

Is Corporate Social Responsibility Really Able to Create Long-Term Sustainability Value?

2022 ◽  
pp. 194-216
Author(s):  
Manuel Moreno ◽  
Elena Mañas-Alcón ◽  
Oscar Montes-Pineda ◽  
Beatriz Fernández-Olit
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Csr Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter analyzes the academic debate regarding the need to adopt a long-term vision of CSR strategies. It's based on the premise that short run is the dominant approach in financial markets, and this situation could be negatively conditioning the long-term sustainability value creation. New social values may be requesting different management decisions from companies, prioritizing long-term over short term results. A thorough literature review has been done across specialized journals, international reports, and key legislation, trying to determine and model the elements facilitating this sustainable value creation. It shows the alignment needed between CEO and their shareholders within the framework of corporate governance to create long-term value within CSR. There are signs of a possible financial over-performance of companies that strategically create a shared value with stakeholders based on environmental, social, and governance objectives, selected due to their materiality. A model is proposed to consider a long-term approach creating sustainable value in organizations.

scholarly journals Shifting Paradigm? Long-Term Value Creation as a Normative Principle in a Hostile Takeover: Evidence from the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
N.T. Pham T.L.M Verdoes ◽  
J. Nijland
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Hostile Takeover ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Business World ◽  
World Government ◽  
Short Termism

This article provides additional insight on the effectiveness of long-term value creation as a legally enforceable norm in the corporate governance system and provides a framework to anchor long-term value creation in takeover decisions. Since the 2008 financial crisis, a growing number of voices in the business world, government and academia, have urged Western economies to move towards a long-term sustainable growth agenda. Boards have a vital part to play in the development of responsible companies. Corporate governance should encourage boards to do so. This could be viewed as a reaction to the negative effects of capital markets and the resulting short-termism. One key method to encourage sustainable value creation in companies is by incorporating long-term value creation as an open norm in corporate governance systems. In the case of a hostile takeover, the risk of short-termism is exacerbated. As a guiding principle, long-term value (LTV) creation should prevent hostile takeovers that could harm the success of the company concerned. In this research paper, we argue that the recent shift in Dutch case law and revision of the Corporate Governance Code in the Netherlands may serve as an important catalyst for ‘sustainable’ takeover decisions. Through ground-breaking judgments by the Dutch Supreme Court and Enterprise Court, Cancun and Akzo Nobel, LTV has acquired the status of an enforceable norm. We investigated whether this legal norm is empirically substantiated. The research results allow us to make well-grounded statements about the effectiveness of enforcing LTV in future hostile takeover situations.

scholarly journals An information technology and innovation committee to guide digital transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Erik Beulen ◽  
Ries Bode
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
The Board Of Directors

In corporate governance, more dedicated attention to digital transformations is becoming essential. This research applies design science to design an information technology and innovation (IT&I) committee as an integral part of corporate governance for organisations that are engaging in digital transformations. This research builds on the work of Turel and Bart (2014). In our research, we conclude that the seven Dutch studied organisations, which are engaging in digital transformations, have corporate governance challenges for the board of directors related to these transformations. These challenges include the presence of digital capabilities and experience, as well as having sufficient dedication and focus on digital transformation. In most organizations, the audit committee addresses the risks associated with information technology including digital transformations. However, our research shows that the audit committee by default does not focus on business opportunities of digital transformations. Our research proposes a design for an IT&I committee, which enhances corporate governance, as well as the long-term value creation by means of IT, technology, and innovation. The IT&I committee councils and monitors digital transformations and facilitates decision-making by the board of directors. Overall, the results of our research suggest that installing an IT&I committee improves corporate governance for organisations that are engaging in digital transformations.

scholarly journals The Effect of Multiple Large Shareholders on Banks’ Profitability and Risk

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1888
Author(s):  
Maria Gaia Soana ◽  
Laura Barbieri ◽  
Andrea Lippi ◽  
Simone Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Large Shareholders ◽  
Bank Ownership ◽  
Institutional Shareholders

The wide-ranging academic literature on corporate governance in the banking sector includes only a few studies on bank ownership and, specifically, on the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate structure. This paper reports an investigation into the presence of multiple large shareholders and their influence on profitability and risk in the long-term, considering a sample of 697 U.S. and European listed commercial banks from 2008 to 2018. It was found that the number of large and institutional shareholders has a positive impact on profitability, but no effect on risk. However, long-term ownership by multiple large shareholders contributes to decreasing risk in banks.

Proactive Value Co-Creation via Structural Ambidexterity: Customer Success Management and the Modularization of Frontline Roles

2021 ◽  
pp. 109467052199756
Author(s):  
Bryan Hochstein ◽  
Nawar N. Chaker ◽  
Deva Rangarajan ◽  
Duane Nagel ◽  
Nathaniel N. Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Depth Interviews

An increasing number of business-to-business (B2B) service firms have transitioned to recurring revenue-based solutions. These subscription B2B solutions are becoming increasingly common, yet offer challenges for long-term renewal if value is not consistently realized by the customer. To address this concern, customer success (CS) management has emerged. CS management is based on regular proactive action taken by the seller to (a) educate, prepare, and engage customers for value co-creation; (b) demonstrate the value delivered by the solution; and (c) provide a channel for advocacy on behalf of customers within the service-providing firm. Our findings highlight the under-researched topic of CS in B2B settings. Specifically, we propose the CS function and role as a structural alternative to within-person (i.e., cross-functional) ambidexterity and emphasize the ability of a CS focus by service firms to complement existing firm operations in value creation efforts. Our case study analysis provides a multilevel perspective (i.e., executive, functional role employees, and customers) via in-depth interviews that offer unique insights on “how parts of the service-sales system work together.” Overall, CS is growing as a practice that propagates value to the customer via ongoing success with solutions while improving service-firm renewal and growth of subscription business.

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Structure within the Context of Corporate Governance in Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanaa A. El-Habashy
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capital Structure

This study aims to investigate the characteristics of corporate governance that impact the capital structure decisions in listed firms in Egypt, to test the efficiency of the research results conducted in the developed Western countries in an emerging economy. A sample of 240 observations from the most active non-financial companies collected in the period 2009-2014 was used for hypothesis testing. Multiple regression models (OLS) were used for data analysis. Seven variables are used in measuring the attributes of corporate governance; they are the managerial ownership, institutional shareholding, shares owned by a large block, board size, board composition, separation of CEO/Chair positions and audit type. Four ratios were calculated for measuring the capital structure, they are long-term and short-term debt to assets, total debt to assets and debt to equity. The results suggest that corporate governance attributes have a significant impact on the capital structure decisions of listed Egyptian companies. In addition, firm-specific factors such as profitability, tangibility, growth opportunities, corporate tax, firm size and non-debt tax shields influence the choice of capital structure in Egypt. The results showed the same relationship with what was obtained in developed Western countries. The paper offers some contribution in the literature and helps to understand the impact of corporate governance on Egypt's capital structure as an emerging economy.

New York, Capital of World Literature? On Holocaust Memory and World Literary Value

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Value Production ◽  
Roberto Bolano

AbstractThe question of how world literary value is produced has been central to recent debates. While Pascale Casanova’s influential account of a relatively autonomous ‘world literary space’ follows the work of Pierre Bourdieu in applying economic metaphors to processes of world literary value production, this essay argues that Casanova’s 1999 account needs to be updated in light of recent economic and cultural developments: the economic and the literary sphere are no longer separate but fundamentally entwined, which means that processes of world literary value creation cannot be modeled as a pseudo-market. The essay traces ongoing debates on the transcultural circulation of Holocaust memory to put forward a more flexible and multifaceted model for the production of world literary value. To demonstrate the claim that world literary value is today articulated with other forms of value, the essay investigates the role of Holocaust memory in the recent world literary consecration of Roberto Bolaño, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and Elena Ferrante. Concentrated around New York-based publishers and media, these three cases not only demonstrate the crucial role of Holocaust memory in articulating literary value, they also show the recent shift from Paris to New York as a primary center of world literary value production.

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