Abstract Research Question/Issue The role of the board chair has become increasingly
complex in recent decades. Research on corporate governance has called for and has …

Abstract Manuscript Type. Empirical. Research Question/Issue. This study investigates the
influence of CEO characteristics on internal control quality in the US Research …

Purpose This study aims to assess the relationship between managerial entrenchment,
social responsibility and risk-taking of the firm and shareholders' activity …

This study examines whether and how top management internationalization is associated
with accounting quality. We combine upper echelons perspectives, agency theory, human …

This study aims to synthesise and analyse the existing literature on share repurchases. It
summarises the key findings and identifies the potential research gaps in the extant …

Empirical findings on the relationship between CEO shareholdings and earnings
manipulation are inconclusive. In response, this study attempts to shed more light by …

Drawing on principal-principal agency theory and the socioemotional wealth (SEW)
perspective, this paper explores the motivations and mechanisms regarding the founding …

Increasingly, researchers in developed economies are associating the exponential growth in
share repurchases with executives' desire to increase company share price and thus the …

This study examines the impact of tenure in independent directors and audit committees on
accretive share buybacks for real earnings management. Taking a sample of 601 non …

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of ownership structure and board
composition on the probability and intensity of stock repurchases. The study's sample …