Corporate Governance: Volume 19 Issue 2

Board nationality and educational background diversity and corporate social performance

Maretno Agus Harjoto, Indrarini Laksmana, Ya wen Yang

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the nationality and educational background diversity of directors serving on corporate boards and the firms’ corporate social…

Reaffirming the importance of managerial discretion in corporate governance: a comment on Andersen (2017)

Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef, Da Teng

The purpose of this study is to refute the work of Andersen (2017) by suggesting a different theoretical view and to argue that the concept of managerial discretion is one of the…

Corporate governance integration with sustainability: a systematic literature review

Sahar E-Vahdati, Norhayah Zulkifli, Zarina Zakaria

The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the literature on corporate governance and sustainability integration in identifying the main rigidity, infirmity and gaps in…

Readability, governance and performance: a test of the obfuscation hypothesis in Qatari listed firms

Mostafa Kamal Hassan, Bassam Abu Abbas, Samy Nathan Garas

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the readability of annual reports and corporate performance in Qatari listed firms while controlling for a firm’s competitive…

Board gender diversity, corporate governance and bank efficiency in Ghana: a two stage data envelope analysis (DEA) approach

David Adeabah, Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako, Charles Andoh

This study aims to analyze the efficiency of banks under board gender diversity and to examine the determinants of bank efficiency.

Relevance of corporate boards in driving performance in the period that covers financial crisis

Geeta Rani Duppati, Frank Scrimgeour, Albert Sune

This paper aims to examine the relevance of boards in driving firm level performance. For this purpose, it considers firms listed on Ireland and Spain stock exchanges for the…

Exploring the governance committee: the trinity’s great forgotten

Jean-François Henri, Sylvie Héroux

This paper aims to explore governance committee’s attributes in terms of composition, roles/duties and responsibilities and operations.

Corporate governance dynamics and wealth effects: evidence from large loss acquisitions and large gain acquisitions in the USA

Seung Hee Choi, Samuel H. Szewczyk, Maneesh Chhabria

When major reallocations of the firm’s assets are strategically necessary, the corporation’s decision system is perhaps put to its severest test. This paper aims to argue that a…

Evaluating the effectiveness of corporate boards

Donald Nordberg, Rebecca Booth

This paper aims to examine how board evaluations have emerged as an important tool in public policy and corporate practice for enhancing board effectiveness.