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Corporate governance and board practices by Greek shipping management companies
Corporate governance is an area of interest to researchers, stakeholders and the general public. In recent times, there has been an increased concern about the effectiveness of the board within
corporate organizations due to corporate scandals and accounting irregularities of some well known
firms, which highlighted the inefficiency of monitoring corporate boards and the overseeing of
managerial decision making. This paper aims to investigate the effects that a number of factors such as organisational demography, organisational size, ownership type, board size, CEO duality and CEO dependence/independence have on board configuration.