Corporate Governance: Volume 1 Issue 2

Top team characteristics and the business strategies of japanese firms

Roblyn Simeon

This study is an extension of research which links top management team characteristics and the use of a variety of business strategies. Agency theory and information processing…

Corporate residency policy: to have or not to have a residency requirement

Rado P. Kotorov

Corporations are trying to increase employee satisfaction to reduce the negative impact of the ongoing war for talent. Providing employees with internal job opportunities is a…

What do we mean by corporate social responsibility?

Lance Moir

There have long been conflicting expectations of the nature of companies’ responsibilities to society. However, for those businesses that do undertake what might be termed…

CEO compensation, IOS and the role of corporate governance

Fathi Elloumi, Jean‐Pierre Gueyié

The empirical relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation, the investment opportunity set (IOS) and corporate governance mechanisms is analyzed for a sample of…

The role of non‐executive directors in high tech smes

Colin Barrow

Until recently the role of non executive directors (NEDs) in small and medium firms (SMEs) was fairly easy to understand. Such directors were usually imposed by venture capital…