Corporate governance and institutions-A review and research agenda

A Zattoni, E Dedoulis, S Leventis… - … -An International Review, 2020 - research.rug.nl
Abstract Research Question/Issue Over the last decades, research on the relationship
between national institutions, governance mechanisms, and firm outcomes has been …

Board characteristics and corporate social responsibility: A meta-analytic investigation

J Endrikat, C De Villiers, TW Guenther… - Business & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Boards of directors affect corporate strategy and decision-making through monitoring of
management and resource provision. Recently, an increasing number of studies have …

Does board gender diversity affect firm performance? Empirical evidence from Standard & Poor's 500 Information Technology Sector

LN Simionescu, ŞC Gherghina, H Tawil, Z Sheikha - Financial Innovation, 2021 - Springer
The essence of this study is to investigate the influence of the board gender diversity on
firms' accounting and market-based performance using a sample of Standard & Poor's 500 …

Top management team nationality diversity, corporate entrepreneurship, and innovation in multinational firms

C Boone, B Lokshin, H Guenter… - Strategic management …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary We integrate insights from upper echelon theory and the literature on
innovation and multinational corporations (MNCs) to develop a framework explaining when …

Better directors or distracted directors? An international analysis of busy boards

SP Ferris, N Jayaraman, MYS Liao - Global Finance Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
This study examines the effect of busy directors and boards on the value of a set of non-US
firms from 1999 to 2012. We find that busy directors and boards are a global phenomenon …

Differences in managerial discretion across countries: how nation‐level institutions affect the degree to which CEOs matter

C Crossland, DC Hambrick - Strategic Management Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of managerial discretion provides a theoretical fulcrum for resolving the debate
about whether chief executive officers (CEOs) have much influence over company …

Board size and corporate risk taking: further evidence from J apan

M Nakano, P Nguyen - Corporate Governance: An International …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Manuscript Type Empirical Research Question/Issue Due to a greater difficulty to
achieve compromise, large decision‐making groups tend to adopt less extreme decisions …

Effects of culture on firm risk-taking: a cross-country and cross-industry analysis

R Mihet - Journal of Cultural Economics, 2013 - Springer
This paper investigates the effects of national culture on firm risk-taking, using a
comprehensive dataset covering 50,000 firms in 400 industries in 51 countries. Risk-taking …

Appointing women to boards: is there a cultural bias?

A Carrasco, C Francoeur, R Labelle, J Laffarga… - Journal of Business …, 2015 - Springer
Companies that are serious about corporate governance and business ethics are turning
their attention to gender diversity at the most senior levels of business (Institute of Business …

[PDF][PDF] Does board gender composition affect corporate social responsibility reporting

B Fernandez-Feijoo, S Romero… - International Journal of …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of board gender composition, among
other variables, on Corporate social responsability (CSR) reporting. We use data from a …