Over the past years, media coverage of firms has received significant scholarly attention.
However, the resulting literature is spread across multiple disciplines and, therefore, varies …

A review of the literature on organizational rankings across management, sociology,
education, and law reveals three perspectives on these complex evaluations—rankings are …

Corporate governance (CG) research has largely focused on internal governance
mechanisms (ie the board of directors, controlling owners, and managerial incentives) …

This study begins to provide a behavioral view of the media and corporate governance by
showing how firms enact largely symbolic governance changes with respect to board …

A consensus has emerged in the burgeoning literature on corporate social responsibility
(CSR) that “virtuous” firms are often rewarded by the marketplace. Unfortunately, the …

As a direct result of the corporate scandals that started with Enron and led to general unrest
in the financial markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission required chief executive …

Research summary: This article empirically examines the economic value to firms of
investing in the training of their employees and firm‐level factors that influence how much …

In this paper we introduce a new antecedent to the strategic change literature by examining
the effect of media coverage on the extent of strategic change. Specifically, we examine how …

Based on evidence from press articles covering 39 corporate fraud cases that went public
during the period 1992–2005, the objective of this article is to examine the role of managers' …

Taking an agency theory perspective of managers as risk averse and self‐interest seeking
and focusing on externally generated analyst forecasts as the performance target, we …