... shareholders' voting rates as a response to governance lapses. This paper highlights the nuanced positive effects of minority shareholder activism in countering the negative impacts of D&O insurance, emphasizing their critical role in maintaining ethical corporate governance. Originality/value...

... research could be that foreign institutional investors, as one type of institutional investors, do play a significant role in improving the efficiency of firms’ human resource allocation. This is because, aside from the common effects of large shareholders in participating in corporate governance...

... investor concerns Market pressures Corporate governance Green investment intentions L10 M10 Globally, a company’s investments are commonly considered responsible by following a principle of environmental, social and governance (ESG), which considers environmental and social impact...

... investment efficiency by reducing over-hiring and under-hiring in emerging markets. The existence of the mediating effect of agency cost, information disclosure quality and employment fluctuation confirms that CSR improves labor investment efficiency through two mechanisms of corporate governance and labor...

... contributes to the literature in risk measures and banks' corporate governance. It also considers the impact of regulatory framework on banks' risk-taking behavior. The aim of this empirical analysis was to examine in greater detail these subjects and the dynamics between them after the significant structural...

.../approach Using textual analysis of the CSR reports of banks listed on the Chinese market, the authors construct CSR measures in six domains: business, environment, human rights, corporate governance, charity and social capital. Our textual-based CSR measures contain substantial and valuable information...

... manipulation. Zhenzhen Sun can be contacted at: zsun@umassd.edu 23 09 2019 08 02 2020 08 03 2020 12 03 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Corporate governance Discretionary accruals Earnings management...

.... In this section, first we review the dividends literature briefly. After that we review how to measure shareholder and creditor rights, and discuss their potential effects on bank dividend policies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Corporate governance Banking Creditor rights Dividend...

...Chang Li; Wei Zheng; Philip Chang; Shanmin Li Purpose – As literatures argue that managers’ personalities will affect both corporate governance structures and corporate performance, the correlation between them is a mixed result. The purpose of this paper is to separate different routes leading...

.... Particularly, the return pattern is more pronounced when corporate governance is weaker. The authors also find that managers opportunistically time ESO reports based on their private information. In particular, more (less) favorable (negative) news announcements occur after the report dates than beforehand...

...Jun Xie; Xiaotao Zeng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the shareholding of the largest shareholder and other large shareholders could exert a good stimulating effect within a firm's corporate governance structure and what impact the balance of power among large shareholders...