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Herding Behaviour Inside the Board: an experimental approach
Author(s) -
González Maximiliano,
Modernell Renato,
París Elisa
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
corporate governance: an international review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1467-8683
pISSN - 0964-8410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2006.00513.x
Subject(s) - herding , voting , on board , accounting , psychology , business , political science , engineering , geography , law , aerospace engineering , politics , forestry
An experimental study was conducted to measure the impact of “herding behaviour” inside a board of directors based on the González (2002 PhD dissertation) theoretical model, which maintains that in a board meeting composed of a CEO and two external directors (A and B), where voting is sequential (CEO → A → B) and the directors’ reputations are valuable, director B tends to copy director A’s decision. Based on the observations made through the experiment, we confirm the presence of herding behaviour.