Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Marielle Non and Philip Hans Franses

No 07-034/2, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each performance measure we design three different panel data models, where we allow the effect of the number of interlocks to be linear, quadratic or square root, either with or without lags. Based on all results we conclude that current interlocks can have a negative effect on future firm performance. We show that this negative effect is jointly established by (1) interlocking directors being too busy and (2) by directors being members of a homogenous upper class group.

Keywords: interlocks; firm performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 G34 J53 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-03-30
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