Diversidade do Conselho de Administração e decisões de estrutura de capital

• Autor(a) principal: Nisiyama, Edelcio Koitiro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23290
• topic: diversidade do conselho; conselho de administração; estrutura de capital; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS

The board of directors is a central element of the corporate governance and its focal point lies on the monitoring of the organization management. In order to get a better governance process, one has to consider the improvement of the boards of directors. Its attributes in terms of structure, composition and characteristics have been taken into account in the academic researches in the different aspects that affect the corporate decisions. More recently, the diversity of the boards has been the theme for discussions both in the academic and in the corporate environments. The concept of diversity has a broad understanding and comprises not only the gender and ethnic variety, but also the diversity of the cultural, social and professional aspects, such as the age, nationality, educational backgrounds and professional experience. The aim of this research is to contribute to the understanding of the influence of the boards on the corporate policies based on the analyses of the effects of the board diversity on the decisions of the firm financial policies. This empirical research was based on the top 100 firms in terms of shares traded in the stock exchange of BMF&Bovespa, using a data panel from 2010 to 2014. The proxy for the board diversity was defined by means of an index, which includes the structural, social and functional diversity of the board members of the firm samples. The results of this research suggest that this diversity is positively associated with the leverage ratios of the firms. The board diversity allows better monitoring by the board on the management and is related positively with the firm leverage, in line with the effects of the reduction of managerial entrenchment by means of stronger monitoring.