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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
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Curriculum
Vitae
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Biographic Information
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.
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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
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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.
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).
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: Download (PDF).
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.
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.
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.
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: Download (PDF).
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 in
China,
submitted to International Journal of
Chinese Culture and Management, (forthcoming).
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.
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.
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.
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.
1996
Donker, H., (1996), Price
determination on the market for corporate control, Maandblad Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB),
Vol.70, No.6, pp.288-299.
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.
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.
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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.
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