Kurt A. Desender

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Associate Professor of Management

Calle de Madrid, 123

Getafe, 28903

Spain

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On the Determinants of Enterprise Risk Management Implementation

ENTERPRISE IT GOVERNANCE, BUSINESS VALUE AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT, Nan Si Shi and Gilbert Silvius, eds., IGI Global, 2011
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2011
Kurt A. Desender
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Enterprise Risk Management, CEO, Board of Directors, Corporate Governance

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Earnings Management and Cultural Values

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 70, pp. 639-670, 2011
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2013
Kurt A. Desender, Christian E. Castro and Sergio Antonio Escamilla de Leon
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona - Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
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Culture, Earnings Management, Informal Institutions, quality of financial information, Individualism, Egalitarianism

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The Relationship Between the Ownership Structure and Board Effectiveness

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business Working Papers 09-0105
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 May 2010
Kurt A. Desender
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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ownership structure, board of directors, monitoring, resource provision, firm performance

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The Relationship Between Enterprise Risk Management and External Audit Fees: Are They Complements or Substitutes?

RISK MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Jalilvand & Malliaris, eds., Routledge, 2011
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012
Kurt A. Desender and Esteban Lafuente
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC Barcelona Tech)
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Enterprise Risk Management, Audit Fees, Corporate Governance, Chief Risk Officer

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Ownership Structure and Stock Price Performance During Turbulent Financial Markets

AAA 2009 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012
Kurt A. Desender
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Ownership concentration, Stock Price Performance, multiple blockholders, type of ownership

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Challenges in the Measuring of Comparative Corporate Governance: A Review of the Main Indices

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 7, Catherine L. Wang, David J. Ketchen, & Donald D. Bergh, eds., Emerald, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Ruth V. Aguilera and Kurt A. Desender
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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When Does Ownership Matter? Board Characteristics and Behavior

Strategic Management Journal 34 (7), 823-842
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2015
Kurt A. Desender, Ruth V. Aguilera, Rafel Crespí-Cladera and Miguel A. García-Cestona
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universitat Illes Balears (UIB), Dep. Economia i Empresa and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) - Department d'Economia de l'Empresa
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Board of directors, monitoring, corporate governance, ownership structure, audit

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Connecting the Dots – Bringing External Corporate Governance into the Corporate Governance Puzzle

The Academy of Management Annals - 2015 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 21 Mar 2015
Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt A. Desender, Michael Bednar and Jun Ho Lee
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business
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Corporate governance, External corporate governance mechanisms, Configurations of governance practices

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Perspectives on Comparative Corporate Governance

SAGE HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Clarke, T. and D. Branson, eds., New York: Sage Publications, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2012
Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt A. Desender and Luiz Ricardo Kabbach-Castro
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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corporate governance, comparative, international, bundle, configurational

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Performance: The Influence of Boards, Ownership and Institutions

Barcelona GSE Working Paper No. 730
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
Kurt A. Desender and Mircea Epure
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business
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corporate governance, corporate social performance, responsibility, agency theory, stakeholder theory, ownership, boards, institutions

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Ho(s)telling Porter's Ideas: Horizontal Differentiation and Product Innovation

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Christian E. Castro and Kurt A. Desender
Autonomous University of Barcelona and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Is Managerial Entrenchment Always Bad and Corporate Social Responsibility Always Good? A Cross-National Examination of Their Combined Influence on Shareholder Value

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Mar 2020
Jordi Surroca, Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt A. Desender and Josep A. Tribo
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Department of Business Administration, Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Stevens Institute of Technology
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comparative capitalism, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, managerial entrenchment, shareholder value

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The Pressure Behind Corporate Social Performance: Ownership and Institutional Configurations

Global Strategy Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Kurt A. Desender and Mircea Epure
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business
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corporate governance, corporate social performance, ownership, stakeholders, institutions

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Corporate Governance and Performance During Plummeting and Soaring Financial Markets

European Accounting and Management Review, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2015)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2017
Kurt A. Desender and Mónica LópezPuertas-Lamy
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Ownership concentration, Stock Price Performance, multiple blockholders, type of ownership

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A Clash of Governance Logics: Foreign Ownership and Board Monitoring

Forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal (published online Dec. 4, 2014)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Mar 2015
Kurt A. Desender, Ruth V. Aguilera, Mónica LópezPuertas-Lamy and Rafel Crespí-Cladera
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Illes Balears (UIB), Dep. Economia i Empresa
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Corporate Governance, Ownership, Board Monitoring, Board of Directors, Audit Fees

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Assessment by Auditors of the Risk of Material Misstatement

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 44, Issue 9-10, pp. 1276-1314, 2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Nov 2017
Mónica LópezPuertas‐Lamy, Kurt A. Desender and Mircea Epure
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business
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audit fees, corporate social responsibility (CSR), CSR performance, risk of material misstatement

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The Governance Impact of a Changing Investor Landscape

Journal of International Business Studies 48(2): 195–221
Posted: 10 Aug 2017
Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt A. Desender, Mónica LópezPuertas-Lamy and Jun Ho Lee
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business

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comparative corporate governance, foreign ownership, management reporting, comparative accounting systems and practices, institutionalism

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Assessment by Auditors of the Risk of Material Misstatement

Forthcoming in Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12268)
Posted: 10 Aug 2017
Mónica LópezPuertas-Lamy, Kurt A. Desender and Mircea Epure
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); CSR performance; Audit fees; Risk of material misstatement