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- Title
Non‐executive directorship importance and takeover hostility: Australian evidence.
- Authors
Day, Chistopher; Bugeja, Martin; Spiropoulos, Helen; Matolcsy, Zoltan
- Abstract
This study investigates the importance of the target firm directorship to target firm non‐executive directors during takeovers. Using Australian data and a size‐based measure of directorship importance, we find a positive association between takeover hostility and directorship importance after controlling for takeover premiums and target firm size. Further analysis reveals that directorship importance leads to a greater likelihood of offer price revisions following initial rejection of a takeover bid, but not the likelihood of bid success. Our findings are consistent with target firm non‐executive directors exhibiting self‐serving behaviour at directorships which they consider more important to their reputation.
- Subjects
CORPORATE directors; HOSTILITY; BUSINESS size; MERGERS &; acquisitions; REPUTATION
- Publication
Accounting & Finance, 2023, Vol 63, Issue 1, p769
- ISSN
0810-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acfi.12952