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Stakeholder conflicts and dividend policy

Bøhren, Øyvind; Josefsen, Morten G.; Steen, Pål E.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/93642
Date
2012
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10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.06.007
Abstract
This paper compares the dividend policy of owner-controlled firms with that of firms where the owners are a minority relative to non-owner employees, customers, and community citizens. We find that regardless of whether owners or non-owners control the firm, the strong stakeholder uses the dividend payout decision to mitigate rather than to intensify the conflict of interest with the weak stakeholder. Hence, the higher the potential agency cost as reflected in the firm’s stakeholder structure, the more the actual agency cost is reduced by the strong stakeholder’s dividend payout decision. These findings are consistent with a dividend policy in which opportunistic power abuse in stakeholder conflicts is discouraged by costly consequences for the abuser at a later stage. Indirect evidence supports this interpretation.
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This is the authors’ final, accepted and refereed manuscript to the article
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Elsevier
Journal
Journal of Banking and Finance

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