Corporate Governance: Volume 18 Issue 1

Corporate governance and management incentives: evidence from the Scandinavian countries

Belle Selene Xia, Ignace De Beelde

The Scandinavian boards are known for their “best practices” for corporate governance. This paper aims to examine the management incentives behind corporate disclosure via an…

Corporate events’ performance and corporate governance: the Brazilian evidence

Bruno Funchal, Jedson Pereira Pinto

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between corporate governance and corporate events’ performance. Firms that engage in corporate events seem to perform at…

Corruption and earnings management in developed and emerging countries

Isabel Costa Lourenço, Alex Rathke, Verônica Santana, Manuel Castelo Branco

The purpose of this study is to examine whether firms from countries presenting higher levels of corruption are more likely to have higher levels of earnings management than their…

Corporate governance and firm risk

Sudha Mathew, Salma Ibrahim, Stuart Archbold

This study aims to explore the relationship between board governance structure and firm risk. In particular, this study develops a “governance index” based on four aspects of the…

Management control systems and corporate social responsibility: perspectives from a Japanese small company

Masahiro Hosoda

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become part of daily business for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Japan. The purpose of this study is to explore how…

Multiple pathways linking environmental knowledge and awareness to employees’ green behavior

Ali Safari, Reza Salehzadeh, Razieh Panahi, Samaneh Abolghasemian

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the impact of environmental knowledge and awareness on green behavior with respect to behavioral intentions, environmental…

Employees’ recognition of corporate sustainability: a case study

Silvana Pintão, Cristina Chaves, Manuel Castelo Branco

This paper aims to ascertain whether a company with a solid reputation for corporate sustainability leadership deems its workforce to be as important as its external stakeholders…

Board of directors characteristics and performance in family firms and under the crisis

Elisabete Simões Vieira

This paper aims to examine the relationship between board of directors’ characteristics and performance in family businesses. It offers evidence to the question of whether a…

The chairperson and CEO roles interaction and responses to strategic tensions

Filipe Morais, Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse

The purpose of this paper is to use Stewart’s model of role as a lense from which to explore chairperson and CEO role dynamics in addressing strategic paradox and tension.

Determinants and consequences of board size: conditional indirect effects

Muhammad Ali

Board size is an important dimension of corporate governance. The purpose of this study is to propose and test indirect effects of organization size on organizational performance…