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Han Donker

Chair, School of Business Associate Professor, Accounting PhD Finance and Accounting, Tilburg University CA Chartered Accountant, Dutch Institute of Chartered Accountants BA MSc Monetary Economics, Free University of Amsterdam Office: Prince George Campus Teaching and Learning Building, Rm 10-4530 Tel: (250) 960-6260 Fax: (250) 960-6763 E-mail: donker@unbc.ca Return to: Faculty List	Curriculum Vitae
Biographic Information Teaching and Research Interests • Courses Taught • Publications Han Donker earned a Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting from CentER at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and a MSc in Economics from the Free University of Amsterdam. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Registered Accountants. He joined the School of Business at the University of Northern British Columbia in 2005. Prior to that he held various positions at KPN Telecom, the largest telecommunication company in the Netherlands, before he accepted a position at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he was the initiator of a new master program in financial law. Currently, he is appointed as Chair of the School of Business at the University of Northern British Columbia. Teaching and Research Interests Han Donker is the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Governance, published by Inderscience (United Kingdom). He studies the relationship between shareholder activism and the market for corporate control. His current research focuses on corporate governance structures and corporate restructuring. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), which is the federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in humanities and social sciences in Canada. He has published many articles on corporate governance and corporate restructuring in the leading journals on corporate governance and ethics, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, International Journal of Corporate Governance, International Journal of Banking and Finance, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, etc. He also served on many editorial boards as a member or as reviewer, such as: Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Academic Ethics, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, etc. Top of Page
Courses Taught Under-graduate COMM 310 - Intermediate Accounting COMM 315 - International Accounting COMM 410 - Accounting Theory COMM 413 - Accounting: Advanced Topics Graduate COMM 610 - Accounting COMM 735 - Ethics, Law and Corporate Governance Top of Page
Publications Journal Articles (refereed) • Journal Articles (non-refereed) • Books • Other Publications Journal Articles (refereed) 2009 Church, M. and H. Donker, (2009), Profit Warnings: Will Openness Be Rewarded?, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 16, March, pp. 1-5. More Information: Visit Informaworld or UNBC Library Curry, J. and H. Donker, (2009) An Examination of Corporate Governance Structures of Community-owned Corporations in British Columbia, Southern Journal of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.24-40. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Curry, J. H. Donker and Rick Krehbiel, (2009), Development Corporations in Aboriginal Communities: The Canadian Experience, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-19. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Donker, H., B. Santen and S. Zahir, (2009), Ownership Structure and the Likelihood of Financial Distress in the Netherlands, Applied Financial Economics (forthcoming). More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or Informaworld or UNBC Library. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2009), The returns to bidding firms in corporate takeovers: Splitting up the pie, International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, Vol.1, No.4, pp.340-357. More Information: Visit InderScience or MetaPress. 2008 Croft, E. and H. Donker, (2008), Killer Takeover Bidding Strategies, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance,Vol.19, January/February, pp.3-9. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Curry, J. and H. Donker, (2008), Evolution of Corporate Models in First Nations Communities, Plan Canada, Vol.48, No.2, pp.49-52. More Information: Visit The Canadian Institute of Planners Donker, H. and A. Ng, (2008), Synergy Motivation and Target Ownership Structure: Effects on Takeover Performance, Journal of International Management Studies, Vol.3, No.2, pp.47-54. More Information: View J.I.M.S. Donker, H., D. Poff and S. Zahir, (2008), Corporate Values, Codes of Ethics, and Firm Performance: A Look at the Canadian Context, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.82, pp.527-537. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library or SpringerLink. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2008), The Characteristics of Bidding Firms and the Likelihood of Cross-border Acquisitions, Journal of Global Business Management , Vol.4, No.1, pp.214-219. More Information: Visit JGBM Donker. H. and S. Zahir, (2008), Takeovers, corporate control, and the return to target shareholders, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Vol.1, No.1, pp.106-134. More Information: Visit InderScience or DOI Link or MetaPress. Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2008), Towards an impartial and effective corporate governance rating system, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol.8, No.1, pp.83-93. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Su, F., Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2008), Merger control regulations in emerging economies: the case of China, International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management, Vol.2, No.4, pp.270-388. More Information: Visit MetaPress. 2007 Donker, H. and S. Zahir, (2007), Corporate Governance Failure: Lessons from Recent Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance Review, Vol.12, No.2, pp.5-11. More Information: Visit Thomson Reuters 2006 Croft, E. and H. Donker, (2006), Does the Winner Take it All?, Corporate Finance Review, Vol.11, No.1, July/August, pp.31-34. More Information: Visit Thomson Reuters Croft, E. and H. Donker, (2006), Why Bidders like Creeping Takeovers, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Vol.17, No.2, pp.45-51. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Donker, H., A. Ng and K. Rai, (2006), Proved or Probable Reserves: Does it Matter? An Empirical Study on Canadian Oil and Gas Companies, Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, Vol.25, No.3, pp.94-102. More Information: Visit IPA 2005 Bos, A. de, and H. Donker, (2005), Earnings Management and Accounting Changes, Management Control & Accounting, Vol.9, No.4, pp.16-22. 2004 Bos, A. de, and H. Donker, (2004), Monitoring Accounting Changes: empirical evidence from the Netherlands,Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol.12, pp.60-73. More Information: Visit EBSCOhost or UNBC Library. Biesta, M., R. Doeswijk and H. Donker, (2004), The Profitability of Insider Trades in the Dutch Stock Market, VBA Journal, Vol.19, No.4, pp.15-23. More Information: Visit SSRN. 2002 Donker, H., (2002), Takeover premiums: Strategies for bidders, target shareholders and management, Maandblad Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB), Vol.76, No.11, pp.520-526. More Information: Visit MAB-online 1996 Donker, H., (1996), Price determination on the market for corporate control, Maandblad Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB), Vol.70, No.6, pp.288-299. Return to: Publications Top of Page Journal Articles (non-refereed) 2005 Donker, H., (2005), Fair Value Accounting-La comptabilite a la juste valeur, CGA Magazine, Vol.39, No.4, pp.20-24. More Information: Visit ProQuest or CGA Magazine Archives or GODOT or UNBC Library. 2004 Bos, A. de, D. Bussink and H. Donker, (2004), What do politicians expect from non-executive board members?, Fiducie, Vol.12, No.3, pp.53-57. More Information: Visit Fiducie.nl and select 03-2004 in archive 2003 Bos, A. de, H. Donker and B. Santen, (2003), Corporate Governance Commission Tabaksblatt does not Tackle the Dutch Cooptation System, The Dutch Financial Times (Het Financieele Dagblad), July 24 2003. Donker, H., (2003), Corporate restructuring, but how?, F&O (Mergers & Acquisitions), September, pp.7-9. Donker, H., (2003), Who pays the piper, calls the tune published in A. de Bos and W. Verhoog, Does Polder Governance make sense?, NIVRA, isbn 90 75103395, 235-241. Donker, H. and B. Santen, (2003), Scrap shares without voting rights, The Dutch Financial Times (Het Financieele Dagblad), September 8, 2003. 2002 Bos, A. de, and H. Donker, (2002), Disclosure of Insider Trading, The Dutch Financial Times (Het Financieele Dagblad), October 6, 2002. Return to: Publications Top of Page Books Donker, H., (2008), Takeovers, Restructuring, and the Market for Corporate Control, Verlag Dr. Müller (VDM), isbn 978 3 639 11335 8. Donker, H., (2001), Takeovers: An Empirical Study of Ownership Structure and the Wealth the Shareholders, CentER Dissertation Series, isbn 90 5668 093 5. More Information: Available in UNBC Library Stacks. Other Publications Report on Corporate Governance in the Netherlands 2004. Donker, H. and A. de Bos, (2003), On Balance or Off balance? published in P.G.J. Berg and W.A. Zondag (editors), Special Agreements and Contracts, Kluwer, isbn 90 130 0742 2, 343-353 Donker, H., (1995), Price Determination on the Takeover market: A Microeconomic Approach published in M. Donders, M. Goedhart and T. Vorst (editors), Finance and Investments, Vol.18, pp.182-211. Return to: Publications Faculty List Top of Page

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