Corporate Governance: Volume 22 Issue 6

Family ownership and risk: the role of family managers

Carlotta D'Este, Marina Carabelli

This study aims to investigate the relationship between family managers and firms’ risk levels in a context characterized by low investor protection and firm opacity…

Does board composition influence working capital management? Evidence from Thailand

Chamaiporn Kumpamool, Nongnit Chancharat

This study aims to investigate the influence of board composition on the working capital management (WCM) of Thai listed firms for the period 2010–2019.

Voluntary adoption of integrated reporting, effective legal system and the cost of equity

Elise Zaro, Eduardo Flores, Marco Fasan, Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia, Claudio Soerger Zaro

Integrated reporting (IR) provides integrated financial and nonfinancial information about companies based on the integrated thinking principle. This study aims to investigate how…

Determinants of CEO compensation: evidence from Pakistan

Aisha Khursheed, Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of firm-specific (i.e. firm size, profitability, leverage, dividend, growth opportunities, management quality and firm age…

The phenomenological complexity of boardroom’s research

Karim S. Rebeiz

The quest to unravel the mysterious boardroom’s structure that would confer the firm with incremental layers of economic supremacy has emerged as an issue of considerable…

Impact of corporate governance and institutional context on multilatinas’ reporting quality

Diego Andrés Correa-Mejía

This study aims to identify the impacts of corporate governance (CG) and institutional context on multilatinas’ corporate reporting quality (CRQ). CG and institutional context…

Audit committees’ oversight role in developing countries: evidence from Jordan

Salem Alhababsah

This study aims to explore the opinions of audit committee (AC) members on the extent to which they fulfil the oversight role vested in them by the Jordanian Corporate Governance…

Convergence and compliance of corporate governance codes: a study of 11 Asian emerging economies

Yasir Bin Tariq, Amir Ejaz, Malik Fahim Bashir

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to explore the convergence of corporate governance (CG) codes of 11 Asian emerging economies with the United Nations (UN) CG…

Corporate governance and financial reporting quality: a comparative study

Arshad Hasan, Doaa Aly, Khaled Hussainey

This paper aims to investigate the impact of corporate governance on financial reporting quality (FRQ) in Pakistan and the UK.

Nexus between audit committee and corporate risk: evidence from Pakistan

Amna Noor, Muhammad Farooq, Zonaib Tahir

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of audit committee (AC) characteristics, such as AC size, AC independence and gender diversity on firm risk in the context…

Sustainable governance and climate-change disclosure in European banking: the role of the corporate social responsibility committee

Simona Cosma, Salvatore Principale, Andrea Venturelli

The purposes of this paper are: firstly, to assess the disclosure related to climate change (CC) by major European banks to understand if the banks have grasped the most…