Institutional ownership and board governance. A structured literature review on the heterogeneous monitoring role of institutional investors

P Velte - Corporate Governance: THe International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to review empirical research on the relationship between
institutional ownership (IO) and board governance (85 studies). Design/methodology …

Do board characteristics drive firm performance? An international perspective

MC Pucheta-Martínez, I Gallego-Álvarez - Review of Managerial Science, 2020 - Springer
The aim of our research is to analyze how board characteristics influence firm performance.
In this paper, we specifically examine how board size, board independence, CEO duality …

The relationship between project governance and project success

R Joslin, R Müller - International journal of project management, 2016 - Elsevier
This study looks at the relationship between project governance and project success from an
agency theory and stewardship theory perspective. For that project governance was …

An international approach of the relationship between board attributes and the disclosure of corporate social responsibility issues

MC Pucheta‐Martínez… - Corporate Social …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Firms interested in being perceived by all stakeholders and society as drivers of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) activities, especially regarding CSR reporting, should have …

Enterprise risk management and firm performance: Role of the risk committee

MF Malik, M Zaman, S Buckby - Journal of Contemporary Accounting & …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, there have been increasing efforts in the corporate world to invest in risk
management and governance processes. In this paper, we examine the impact of Enterprise …

Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan

MF Sheikh, SZA Shah, S Akbar - Applied economics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the effects of firm performance and corporate governance on chief
executive officer (CEO) compensation in an emerging market, Pakistan. Using a more robust …

Corporate governance and cash holdings in MENA: Evidence from internal and external governance practices

B Al-Najjar, E Clark - Research in International Business and Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper explores the impact of internal and external corporate governance practices on
the decision to hold cash in MENA countries. Using430 non-financial firms in the MENA …

CEO compensation and firm performance: An empirical investigation of UK panel data

N Ozkan - European Financial Management, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the link between CEO pay and performance employing a unique, hand‐
collected panel data set of 390 UK non‐financial firms from the FTSE All Share Index for the …

Board structure and corporate risk taking in the UK financial sector

S Akbar, B Kharabsheh, J Poletti-Hughes… - International Review of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between board structure and corporate risk taking in
the UK financial sector. We show how the board size, board independence and combining …

The determinants of board size and composition: Evidence from the UK

PM Guest - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper examines the trends and determinants of board structure for a large sample of
UK firms from 1981 to 2002. We extend the predominantly US based literature in a number …