Corporate Governance: Volume 21 Issue 6

Guest editorial

Gabriel Eweje, Alfonsina Iona, Maggie Foley, Michail Nerantzidis

Corporate governance and COVID-19: a literature review

Andreas Koutoupis, Panagiotis Kyriakogkonas, Michail Pazarskis, Leonidas Davidopoulos

The purpose of this study is to review the literature on corporate governance (CG); environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and corporate social responsibility (CSR…

Corporate governance practices and the pandemic crisis: UK evidence

Sheeja Sivaprasad, Sudha Mathew

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the corporate governance practices in the UK. The authors adopt a case study approach and use content…

Exploring the role of organizational slack in the COVID-19 pandemic: an empirical study of the manufacturing industry

Zonghui Li

Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm (BTF), this study aims to understand the role of organizational slack in the manufacturing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Firms’ performance during the COVID-19 outbreak: international evidence from 13 countries

Olga Golubeva

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of firm-, finance- and country-specific indicators to the performance of companies under the COVID-19 outbreak.

CSR during COVID-19: exploring select organizations’ intents and activities

S.M. Ramya, Rupashree Baral

This paper aims to explore the immediate proactive corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts undertaken by select organizations in India in response to the coronavirus…

Corporate social responsibility actions and organizational legitimacy at the peak of COVID-19: a sentiment analysis

Davide Giacomini, Mattia Martini, Alessandro Sancino, Paola Zola, Dario Cavenago

This paper aims to analyse stakeholder sentiment about the corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions implemented by Italian companies between February 20, 2020 and April 20…

Telework amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: effects on work style reform in Japan

Masahiro Hosoda

This study aims to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected telework initiatives in Japanese companies and investigate the factors that affect telework based on the technology…

Business strategies responding to COVID-19: experience of Chinese corporations

Minyu Wu, Kun Kong

This paper aims to investigate the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives adopted by Chinese firms during the outbreak of COVID-19. Facing this unknown, unexpected and…

Facing a global crisis - how sustainable business models helped firms overcome COVID

Marina Mattera, Federico Soto Gonzalez, Carmen Alba Ruiz-Morales, Luana Gava

The purpose of this study is to analyse how implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies following United Nations’ Global Compact (UNGC) guidelines can…

The effect of ESG on value creation from mergers and acquisitions. What changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Ioannis Tampakoudis, Athanasios Noulas, Nikolaos Kiosses, George Drogalas

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and shareholder wealth in the context of mergers and…

The COVID-19 pandemic, social sustainability and global supply chain resilience: a review

Aymen Sajjad

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global supply chain sustainability and provide an important pathway to develop an initial…

Corporate liquidity, supply chain and cost issues awareness within the Covid-19 context: evidence from us management reports’ textual analysis

Athanasios Fassas, Sotirios Bellos, George Kladakis

The purpose of this study is to assess the management responses and intentions of 3,279 US firms from all industries, before and after the coronavirus outbreak, to identify the…

The impact of COVID-19 on UK higher education students: experiences, observations and suggestions for the way forward

Muzammal Ahmad Khan

This study aims to examine the experiences of UK higher education students and the impact that emergency-imposed changes had on their learning, teaching and assessment (LTA…

Crises conducting stakeholder salience: shifts in the evolution of private universities’ governance in Latin America

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Miguel Cordova, Michel Hermans, Karla Maria Nava-Aguirre, Fabiola Monje-Cueto, Santiago Mingo, Santiago Tobon, Carlos Adrian Rodriguez, Erica Helena Salvaj, Dinorá Eliete Floriani

This study aims to build on embedded approaches to stakeholder management and examines how organizational decision-makers consider social responsibility toward proximal…

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on student learning performance from the perspectives of community of inquiry

Consilz Tan

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on university students during the Movement Control Order (MCO) and Recovery Movement…

Teachers’ readiness to adopt online teaching amid COVID-19 lockdown and perceived stress: pain or panacea?

Prashant Mehta

Prolonged closure of educational institutions prompted authorities to adopt online teaching as an alternative method to impart education. The purpose of this study is to…

COVID-19 response: students’ readiness for shifting classes online

Arnab Kundu, Tripti Bej

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led education institutions to move all face-to-face (F2F) courses online across the globe. The purpose of this study was to…

Social performance and social media activity in times of pandemic: evidence from COVID-19-related Twitter activity

Diogenis Baboukardos, Silvia Gaia, Chaoyuan She

The purpose of this study is to examine corporate disclosure of stakeholder-oriented actions on Twitter in response to COVID-19 during the pandemic outbreak and to empirically…