Corporate Governance: Volume 24 Issue 2

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

Patrick Velte

This paper aims to review empirical research on the relationship between institutional ownership (IO) and board governance (85 studies).

Breaking the glass ceiling: gender equality practices in a Japanese bank

Masahiro Hosoda, Shima Nagano

This study aims to explore the mechanism of the relationships between financial and non-financial outcomes and gender equality through a case study of a Japanese bank that has…

Boardroom gender diversity and risk-taking in the insurance industry: do organizational form and ownership structure matter?

Habib Jouber

This study aims to investigate the relationship between boardroom gender diversity (BoGD) and risk-taking by property-liability (P-L) stock insurers from an analytical framework…

Corporate governance in SMEs: a systematic literature review and future research

Jaime Fernandes Teixeira, Amélia Oliveira Carvalho

The purpose of this study is to examine the corporate governance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through a systematic literature review.

Female CEO and FinTech performance: Are senior directors more inclusive?

Valeria Stefanelli, Francesco Manta, Antonio D'Amato

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between gender diversity in CEO positions and FinTech profitability by exploring the moderating role of the average board age on…

The audit committee and dividend policy: an empirical study of the post-SOX era

Samuel Buertey, Ha Thanh Nguyen, Ephraim Kwashie Thompson

Post-Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), the audit committee has been empowered greatly to play a central role in the corporate governance of firms. Embedded in agency theory, this study…

A better start: board diversity matters in assessing stock price crash risk

Kyungshick Cho, Jaeyoung Cho, Yiyang Bian

The determinants that contribute to reducing stock price crash risk have garnered attention from scholars and practitioners. However, our understanding of the relationship between…

Does corporate social responsibility mediate the relationship between board diversity and financial distress: evidence from an emerging economy?

Muhammad Farooq, Imran Khan, Qadri Al Jabri, Muhammad Tahir Khan

The study hypothesized that the impact of board diversity on financial distress (FD) is not direct but rather mediated by the firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR…

Sustainability performance, executive compensation, market value, and say-on-pay voting adoption: evidence from the STOXX Europe 600

Ayman Issa, Jalal Rajeh Hanaysha

This study aims to investigate the link between carbon emissions and market value for nonfinancial companies in the STOXX Europe 600 index, with a specific focus on the moderating…

Mediating effect of ESG performance on executive incentive compensation-financial performance relationship: evidence from MENA banking sector

Abdelhakim Ben Ali, Jamel Chouaibi

This study aims to investigate whether integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices mediates the relationship between executive incentive compensation and the…

Corporate governance and equity value: empirical evidence from Nigerian firms

Isah Shittu, Ayoib Che-Ahmad

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of selected corporate governance (CG) variables on the equity value multiple (EVM) of listed firms in Nigeria.