... depending on the corporate performance hazard and ownership structure. Stock crash risk Boards of directors Relation-oriented diversity Task-oriented diversity KOSPI200 firms South Korea Increasing the number of outside directors on the board can also enhance the monitoring and control...

... of innovation recently proposed by Bellstam et al. (2016) and show that care must be taken when this new measure is used [ 1 ]. Because the board of directors is considered the paramount governance mechanism, not surprisingly, a substantial body of research examines the importance and impact...

... gender diversity influences capital structure decisions through firm risk-taking. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender Decision-making Boards of directors Boardroom effectiveness Corporate governance Information...

... in the corporate governance network, and therefore their attractiveness to boards of directors. On the other hand, the results show that the research on board assemblage, nowadays, should be rather observed through the methodology of social network analysis as the method gives an opportunity to understand...

...Klaas Heemskerk Purpose Over the past decades, growing interest in the behaviour of boards of directors has brought forth empirical studies on actual board behaviour. An important stream within this research followed the model proposed by Forbes and Milliken in 1999 in which the board processes...

... shareholders in the promotion of good corporate governance. Danielle A.M. Melis can be contacted at: danielleam.melis@gmail.com and André Nijhof can be contacted at: a.nijhof@nyenrode.nl 09 09 2017 25 01 2018 27 02 2018 04 03 2018 Corporate citizenship Boards of directors...

... for propositions, drawn from resource dependency theory and group effectiveness/diversity theories, that diverse boards of directors can lead to greater firm-level creativity and innovativeness. It also outlines a detailed research agenda for future studies to build on the tentative findings presented...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only CEO pay Boards of directors Gender diversity Monitoring Independence Appointing women to top management positions has become a focus of increasing attention. At a global scale, female representation on boards and in management teams...

..., the less likely there would be a requirement to have a majority of independent directors on the board. Corporate governance Boards of directors National culture Hofstede’s cultural dimensions This study aims to further the body of literature concerning the influences of national culture...

...Axel Walther; Hannah Möltner; Michèle Morner Purpose This paper aims to identify distinct motivation profiles among non-executive directors and explores the reasons why non-executive directors continue to serve on boards of directors. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based...

... been a growing disenchantment about the modus operandi of the board of directors among practitioners, particularly as it pertains to large corporations with diffuse and heterogeneous shareholders and stakeholders. New design guidelines for the board of directors would directly impact...

... of the SEC by issuing codes that were industry specific. 25 08 2015 23 02 2016 01 03 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Codes Corporate governance Boards of directors Corporate ownership However...

... combined to create a group of directors with access to a complete set of skills, knowledge and connections, but which can still work as a compact social group when making decisions. The literature in the field of corporate governance describes the importance of the link between boards of directors...

...Jukka-Pekka Bergman; Antti Knutas; Pasi Luukka; Ari Jantunen; Anssi Tarkiainen; Aleksander Karlik; Vladimir Platonov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of cognitive diversity on strategic issue interpretation among the boards of directors making sense of sustainability...

... Group Publishing Limited 2014 Boards of directors Corporate crisis Empirical literature Turnaround Bankruptcy Boardroom effectiveness Business failures Chief executives Directors It is a matter of fact that, at least over the past 30 years, the empirical research on corporate...

.... At the second stage, secondary data are used for understanding the dynamics of Turkish institutional context. Findings – The results of this study reveal that boards of directors of listed Turkish firms comply with the governance practices instituted by state agencies, except on issues as independent...

.... (1998)   Cui and Mak (2002) , Carapeto et al. (2005) , Adams et al. (2009) etc. shows that the Board of Directors is characterized by several closely‐related attributes. Among these attributes, one can distinguish board's composition with respect its size, to the subdivision...

... and board characteristics in a small open economy, such as the Greek economy. Boards of directors Corporate governance Corporate ownership Greece The majority of research conducted on empirical corporate governance has concentrated on the role of ownership structure and board of directors...

... 26000 SR international standard as a viable business governance document. Thomas Hemphill can be contacted at: thomashe@umflint.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 International standards Social responsibility Boards of directors Sustainability Competitive strategy...

... governance Boards of directors Audit committees Earnings quality Egypt Regulation Earnings quality is a major dimension of the financial reporting quality, as earnings constitute a premier source of firm‐specific information (Francis et al., 2004). Empirical research (e.g. Biddle...