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This study examines the impact of director tenure diversity on board effectiveness. We find that tenure‐diverse boards exhibit significantly higher CEO performance‐turnover sensitivity and that firms with tenure‐diverse audit committees are less likely to experience accounting restatements. Furthermore, we document that tenure‐diverse compensation committees also award less excess compensation and are less likely to overcompensate. Even though tenure‐diverse boards seem to exhibit superior monitoring performance, there is limited evidence that their firms exhibit superior financial performance. The findings suggest that recent calls for board renewal, to the extent that it would increase tenure diversity rather than just decrease average board tenure, may help enhance board monitoring. Les auteures étudient l'incidence de la diversité de l'ancienneté des administrateurs sur l'efficacité du conseil d'administration. Elles constatent que les conseils composés d'administrateurs dont l'ancienneté varie affichent une sensibilité beaucoup plus grande à la performance et à la rotation du chef de la direction et que les sociétés dont les comités d'audit se composent de membres dont l'ancienneté varie sont moins susceptibles de connaître des retraitements comptables. En outre, les auteures documentent le fait que les comités de rémunération composés de membres dont l'ancienneté varie octroient moins de suppléments de rémunération et sont moins susceptibles de surélever la rémunération. Même s'il semble que la performance des conseils composés de membres dont l'ancienneté varie soit supérieure au chapitre de la surveillance, peu de données laissent croire que la performance financière de leurs entreprises le soit aussi. Les observations des auteures semblent indiquer que les récents appels au renouvellement des conseils, dans la mesure où ils augmenteraient la diversité de l'ancienneté de leurs membres plutôt que d'en réduire simplement l'ancienneté moyenne, pourraient contribuer à améliorer la surveillance exercée par le conseil.
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Na Li & Aida Sijamic Wahid, 2018.
"Director Tenure Diversity and Board Monitoring Effectiveness,"
Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(3), pages 1363-1394, September.
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RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:3:p:1363-1394
DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12332
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