Corporate Governance: Volume 19 Issue 1

The impact of external and internal corporate governance mechanisms on agency costs

Jonas Schäuble

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of external and internal corporate governance mechanisms on agency costs.

Ownership, regulation and bank risk-taking: evidence from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

Faizul Haque

This study aims to investigate how ownership structure and bank regulations individually and interactively influence risk-taking behaviour of a bank.

Stakeholder management: a systematic literature review

Matteo Pedrini, Laura Maria Ferri

The stakeholder theory is a prominent management approach that has primarily been adopted in the past few years. Despite the increase in the theory’s use, a limited number of…

When do investors value board gender diversity?

Christopher Groening

This paper aims to use the passage of the Italian Gender Diversity Law to help isolate the effects of board gender diversity on firm value by investigating conditions under which…

The financial crisis as a wake-up call: corporate governance and bank performance in an emerging economy

Nurlan Orazalin, Monowar Mahmood

This paper aims to investigate the effects of different sets of corporate governance (CG) practices on bank performance before, during and after the financial crisis. The study…

A behavioral perspective on corporate dividend policy: evidence from France

Dhoha Trabelsi, Saqib Aziz, Jean-Jacques Lilti

This paper empirically examines the catering theory of Baker and Wurgler (2004) in the particular context of France. Considering the characteristics of French market – known for…

The ultimate controlling owner and corporate governance in Brazil

Vicente Lima Crisóstomo, Isac de Freitas Brandão

High ownership concentration makes controlling blockholders powerful enough to use private benefits of control and able to shape the corporate governance system to favor their own…

Shareholder activism impact on efficiency in Brazil

Paula Guimaraes, Ricardo P.C. Leal, Peter Wanke, Matthew Morey

This paper aims to investigate the long-term impact of shareholder activism on Brazilian listed companies.

Hide-and-seek in corporate disclosure: evidence from negative corporate incidents

Bradley Rudkin, Danson Kimani, Subhan Ullah, Rizwan Ahmed, Syed Umar Farooq

This paper investigates the legitimacy tactics used in the annual reports of UK listed companies in the aftermath of major corporate scandals.

Moving the 2030 agenda forward: SDG implementation in Colombia

Maria A. Pineda-Escobar

This paper aims to contribute to the debate regarding the understanding of the multiple manifestations and alternatives for the implementation of sustainable development goals…

Ownership structure, board of directors and firm performance: evidence from Taiwan

Mao-Feng Kao, Lynn Hodgkinson, Aziz Jaafar

Using a data set of listed firms domiciled in Taiwan, this paper aims to empirically assess the effects of ownership structure and board of directors on firm value.